Susan Kay Nason's Repressed Memory

John Friedrich, charged with and eventually convicted of the murder of 38-year-old Gayle Meggyesy, gestures as he testifies on the seventh day of his trial in Holmes County Common Pleas Court. The 1988 trial came nearly two years after Meggyesy 's murder.

Aileen’s attorneys managed to obtain a plea agreement for her, where she would plead guilty to six charges of murder and receive six life sentences to be served consecutively. One states attorney held out stating that Aileen should receive the death penalty, and on January 14, 1992, Aileen’s trial began for the murder of her first victim, Richard Mallory. On January 27, after only two hours of deliberation, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of first degree murder. The judge sentenced Aileen to death on January 31, 1992. She did not stand trial again, instead pleading no contest to the rest of the murder charges and was sentenced to death on each one. The seventh victim was never found. (Hamilton (1993).

The case titled R v Kristi Anne Abrahams 2013 NSWSC 952, was an extremely serious indictable offence.This case was tried by a judge and jury during April of 2011, at the Supreme Court which is the highest court in N.S.W which hears the most serious of cases. The court heard Kristi Abrahams plead guilty for murdering her daughter, due to the fact that she was already recorded confessing she was Kiesha Abrahams killer meant she had no other option but to plead guilty.The length of the sentence was decided by the judge and Kristi Abrahams was sentenced to 22 years in prison with 16 years

Then in 1874 without any evidence a warrant was listed for a stagecoach robbery by her husband and others like the Younger Brothers. Her husband was then killed in that year of august in Paris Texas.

Susan Atkins was convicted for nine murders and died in prison in 2009 at age 61. Charles “Tex” Watson was a central member of the family and was currently denied parole for the 17th time. Lynette Fromme attempted to assassin President Gerald Ford and was sent to life in prison but was released on parole in 2009. Linda Kasabian was a former member of the family and was one of the key witness for the case. Patricia Krenwinkel made a documentry about her being part of the family and denied parole for the 14th time.

March 26, 2014- Jordan Linn Graham wishes to withdraw guilty plea because the agreement she accepted was “illusory” and “hollow formality”.

faced charges for the capital murders of three teenagers. Unfortunately, he was convicted of all charges, sentenced to death, and executed on April 3, 1997 (Mills, Armstrong, and Holt).

The memories were contradicted based on solid evidence such as DNA and alibis. Professor Loftus set out to prove the unreliability of supposed repressed memories. Methods Professor Loftus selected 24 mentally healthy college students. With the help of the participants' families, Professor Loftus was able to make a packet with three true memories and one false.

When a person has a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event, they are experiencing a false memory. A false memory is a mental experience that is mistaken for a veridical representation of an event from one’s personal past. (Kendra Cherry) There are two types of false memories: minor and major. A minor false memory can be some as simple as someone thinking they left their keys on the table, but actually left them in the bedroom. A major false memory could be someone believing they have been abducted from aliens. False memories occur frequently and can take control over someone’s life. Therapists have many approaches that they use to try and help one recollect their memory. While trying to help, they may actually worsen the problem. Research supports the salience of false recollections over accurate ones in people, potentially indicating that every person in a given society can fall victim to their effects. Revealing that this theory has more truth than many expect affecting many people within our societies.

Four hypotheses were given in this experiment. Results from each were consistent with its hypotheses. 1) The recovered memory group attained higher scores on the false recall and false recognition test than the control. These results are consistent with the only other experiment that measures memory distortion. This previous study dealt with memory distortion of victims of childhood sexual abuse (Clancy et al., 2000). People who are more prone to exhibit false recall and false recognition in the laboratory are more likely to do the same in real life. 2) Repressed memory and recovered memory participants exhibited more false recall and false recognition than the control group. 3) The recovered memory did score higher than any group in both false recall and false recognition.

The issue of 'false' vs. 'repressed' memories is of increasing relevance to counseling psychologists and indeed to any professional involved in therapy. The reputation of therapy is at stake, as clients begin to sue therapists for the implantation of false memories. In turn, it is essential that all clinicians conduct their therapy according to the latest guidelines of practice as to avoid suggestion and the possible implantation of false memories.

Based on my reading, repressed memories are more likely to surface when people feel the need to play the victim and fancy accusing other people to achieve that aim. The fact that many women retracted their allegations showed me that they may have intentionally fabricated the stories. Perhaps, the growth in the number of people making these types of allegations could have grown because they were getting attention and they thought that was cool. One possible positive effect is that some cultures reward the idea that someone could be a victim. I have heard countless stories where victims have been compensated by their aggressors. In politics for example, some countries immediately take sides with a victim city or country in an interstate conflict to prove they support

The name of the video I viewed was “Personality and Repressed Memories”. I viewed this video at 2:19 PM on February 7, 2016. The video began with the narrator introducing the case, while a video of the defendant walking to the courthouse is being played in the background. The narrator explained that the primary witness in the case was the defendant’s daughter, Eileen. A still shot of the victim was then shown on the screen. The victim was Eileen’s childhood friend, Susan. She went missing from her neighborhood and was later found dead with a fractured skull outside of town. A shot of the site where her body was discovered was also shown in the video. The video then switched to show Eileen as a grown woman. She was telling her side of what happened

We identify this as individuals when we receive input and alter the actual outcome of our recollection (Matlin, 2009). We also can relate that false memories occur during times of remembrance when we are not fully capable of interpreting the memory in its entirety. We do understand, however, as individuals we form false memories under any circumstance. Whether we are amongst other individuals, in a comfortable environment, or even at the expense of a therapeutic environment, our represses memories become false. We shall have the false memories as long as our memory serves us correctly and incorrectly given the circumstances and situations. Although research has been conducted to find why we have these tendencies, further research is still needed to fully understand why we form false

Memory is fallible and malleable that can be changed and created in order to incorporate new experience or information. This fabricated or distorted remembering of an event is called a false memory, however, never occurred in reality. Inaccurate information and erroneously attribution of an original source of the information causes to recollect entirely false events. The false memory can have profound implications that people are highly self-confident of their memories even though the events are never existed in their past. The purpose of this research is to explore the effect of the false memory and the possibilities of its formation.