Repression is a defense mechanism in which people push difficult or unacceptable thoughts out of conscious awareness. This idea launched an enduring controversy in the field of psychology. The notion ...

Repression can be thought of as "motivated forgetting:" the active but unconscious forgetting of unacceptable drives, emotions, ideas, or memories. Unsurprisingly, repression is often confused with ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...