(April 22, 2015 at 5:07 am)robvalue Wrote: I had EMDR treatment for depression, and if there was a suppressed trauma, it didn't come out....
Scientific American lined EMDR up with several alternative therapies a few years back. It may have some connection with the basic fact that the same sensory and motor areas in the nervous system that mediate perception and action also "keep" memories for the same perceptions and actions. Kind of like "it comes out the same way it went in." So, the nerves that control the eyeball's rotation may help store perceptual memories related to looking at things. Cognitive Behavior therapy presumably engages verbal memory instead. Fascinating.
SciAm: http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...oser-look/
(April 22, 2015 at 3:48 pm)robvalue Wrote: I see, yes that's interesting. I suspect it is often the case, memory is notoriously unreliable. It's weird how much false confidence you can have though in your own memories.
Memory definitely goes through a lot of "editing" over time. I remembered some childhood episodes quite differently than the way my mother said they happened. Nowadays I don't remember before age 10 too well, it's all vague, and there's a feeling that I used to know things about this period which I don't anymore.
