It is hypothesised that repression may be one method used by individuals to cope with traumatic memories, by pushing them out of awareness (perhaps as an adaptation via psychogenic amnesia) to allow a child to maintain attachment to a person on whom they are dependent for survival.[16] Researchers have proposed that repression can operate on a social level as well.[17] Psychogenic amnesia, now renamed dissociative amnesia, is found to increase in incidence after psychologically traumatic events such as war and natural disaster, which is consistent with the repression hypothesis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory
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