Repressed memories - Avoiding the obvious

Sorting out the distinctions between reality and fantasy in terms of appare ntly recovered memories and reconstructions is at least as puzzling as sort ing out current realities. In responding to C. B. Brenneis's (1997, 2000) c hallenge to the existence of the phenomena of repression and of recovered o r reconstructed memories, the authors point out the data from the Recovered Memory Archive web site, the data from World War I and World War II battle field neuroses, as well as the clinical observations of psychoanalysts.