Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression

Dirk Hermans; Filip Raes; Carlos Iberico; J. Mark G. Williams

doi:10.1017/S0140525X06329111

Reduced autobiographical memory specificity, avoidance, and repression

Dirk Hermans
, Filip Raes
, Carlos Iberico
, J. Mark G. Williams

KU Leuven
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division

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Abstract

Recent empirical work indicates that reduced autobiographical memory specificity can act as an avoidant processing style. By truncating the memory search before specific elements of traumatic memories are accessed, one can ward off the affective impact of negative reminiscences. This avoidant processing style can be viewed as an instance of what Erdelyi describes as the "subtractive" class of repressive processes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	522
Number of pages	1
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	29
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X06329111
State	Published - Dec 2006
Externally published	Yes

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