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Old Jun 09, 2008, 11:07 AM
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Hey. Yeah, I basically agree with MissCharlotte's take on the usefulness of looking at how our rememberings affect our present interactions. I think that is one of the really worthwhile things that we can learn about in therapy :-)

But... I guess I do have this cautious thing with respect to if you do start to have other episodic memories pertaining to the event come about as a consequence of your talking about your rememberings. Without external corroboration one can't know whether those episodic memories are coming from external events or coming from our fears or insecurities in the process of remembering. Of course our fears and insecurities are a very appropriate thing to be dealing with in therapy. I guess I'm just really very cautious when it comes to memory work helping us get clearer on external events.