Original sentence: The evidence for individuals partially or completely forgetting a traumatic event is equivocal.The term used in mainstream psychological and medical circles to describe memories forgotten due to psychological rather than neurological causes is psychogenic amnesia.Within mainstream medical circles, the reality of repressed memories, as defined and used by therapists involved in repressed memory therapy, is extremely controversial
Edited sentence: In the book, Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law a reviewed of 43 studies on dissociative amnesia and traumatic memory showed a substantial minority of the traumatized individuals partially or completely forgot the traumatic event they experienced, and later recovered these events.It has been stated that the reality of repressed memories is extremely controversial.Some believe research shows that trauma survivors can respond to pain by pushing it out of awareness.Some label this phenomenon dissociative amnesia or repression.The DSM-IV describes disorders that have diagnostic criteria for memory loss, including posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociative amnesia, and dissociative identity disorder.There are over 100 years of reports and descriptions of corroborated cases of recovered memory, including instances from times of war, torture, bereavement, natural disasters, and concentration camp imprisonment and sexual abuse.This is contradicted in a 2002 study by Pope