The Memory Debate The debate over the reliability of memory has been going on before psychotherapy even started. I would like to first began by explaining how a human being's memory works, memory is an information process, somewhat like a computer information-processing system. We use encoding, which is getting information into our brain, we retain that information like storage, and get the information back out when needed by using retrieval. Like a computer we store …showed first 75 words of 887 total…

…showed last 75 words of 887 total…are victims of abuse, my concern for the victims of abuse greatly out weigh the concerns for the foundation. I honestly can not think of a solution that would ease the debate besides finding the true answer, a way to successfully interpret when someone is having a real or a false memory, even if thus was to happen there would most likely still be debate over the methods used to interpret real and false memories.