When?
Tuesday, March 17 at 7:30PM
Where?
The Park5-9 Hotel Street
Leicester
LE1 5AW
Who?
Dr Cara Laney
What's the talk about?
Can people repress traumas like child sexual abuse and then recover their traumatic memories years or decades later? Sigmund Freud proposed this coping mechanism and modern therapists have argued that it is common. This talk will consider whether these "recovered" memories might instead be false memories.
Cara Laney is a lecturer of forensic psychology at the University of Leicester. Her main area of research is human memory and the myriad ways it can go wrong. She has published more than a dozen articles on memory related topics.