What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, which is quickly becoming one of the ...

Belknap, 420 pp., $35 AT THE END of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud–ever anxious to present an overarching, universal explanation for mental unrest–suggested that “repressed memories” of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memories and photos both can misrepresent the past. Westend61 via Getty Images In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder ...

Repressed memories are memories that we unconsciously avoid thinking about, usually because of a traumatic experience. These memories are thought to be unconsciously blocked for several years and are ...

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