Fascinating:
Research finds repressed memories don't exist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Soldiers returning from war zones, victims of violent crime and sexual abuse, can now be helped by cognitive behaviour therapy, where they learn to assign terrible memories to the past, instead of them crowding their present and future.
Professor Devilly says the therapy is working.
'We're now getting, at the end of between 8 and 12 sessions, 90 to 92 per cent of people no longer meet the criteria for PTSD,' he said.
Now psychologists are working to fend off post traumatic stress in high-risk occupations, by teaching recruits to develop resilience."
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