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1996

A case documented by Graham Davies and Noelle Robertson

Type of Case: Clinical

Form(s) of Corroboration: Documentary physical evidence

Publication or Case Location: NATO Advanced Study Institute on Recollections of Trauma

Related Cases: A case documented by Miriam Bendiksen, A case documented by Daphne Hewson

Description

Three separate clinical cases of corroborated recovered memory were reported in the 1996 poster session at the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Recollections of Trauma (June 1996; Port de Bourgenay, France). The second case was reported by Graham Davies and Noelle Robertson in the presentation “A Recovered Memory of a Traumatic Event—A Single Case Study." "Mr. B", a schoolmaster, reported lapses of consciousness in response to stimuli like flashes of light and the sight of a handgun on a television program, as well as nightmares which referenced a shooting and a demand for money. During the following months he recovered a memory of a traumatic armed robbery which occurred in his school office, with corroboration existing in the form of contemporaneous note and damaged clothing consistent with being hit with an air rifle pellet.

Sources

Davies, G. & Robertson, N. (1996). “A Recovered Memory of a Traumatic Event—A Single Case Study,” in Lindsay & Read, ed. Recollections of Trauma: Scientific Evidence and Clinical Practice (NATO ASI Series, 997), p. 575.

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