Appendix III The Repression of War Experience

Title: Appendix III The Repression of War Experience
LC Subject: Repression (Psychology) War
Creator: Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922
Description: The author defines repression as an active process of making some part of the mental content inaccessible to memory. He believes it to be harmful when it has negative effects on one's adaptation to his environment. He states that although it is a common practice to tell patients to not think of unpleasant memories it is rarely beneficial to voluntarily banish these thoughts. He discusses cases of war neurosis, and the part taken by repression in each of them. He concludes that facing painful memories and thoughts should be encouraged and patients should be helped after "cessation of repression" for improvement in treatment.
Issued: 1920
Identifier: diss_rive_appe3_1920
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Source: University of Oregon Knight Library, BF173.R54. Instinct and the unconscious; a contribution to a biological theory of the psycho-neuroses, 185-204. Cambridge University press.
Language: English
Type: Text
Format: application/pdf
Set: Dissociation and Trauma Archives
Primary Set: Dissociation and Trauma Archives
Institution: University of Oregon
Citation: Appendix III: "Repression of War Experiences". In Rivers, W. H. R. Rivers (1920). Instinct and the unconscious; a contribution to a biological theory of the psycho-neuroses. Cambridge University press.
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