来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第8集 第8集》

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  and then they recover a memory
  然后他们想起了经历过的
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  of past traumatic sexual abuse.
  造成精神创伤的性虐待
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  And what this is--what makes this so debatable,
  这个问题存在着很大的争议
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  and there is a debate about this.
  关于这个问题是有些争论
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  I don't want to try to preclude it one way or another.
  我不想为任何一方说话
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  What makes this debatable is some psychologists believe that,
  争议的焦点在于 有些心理学家相信
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  in at least some cases, these memories are real
  至少某些情况下 这些记忆是真实的
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  and they have been repressed
  这些记忆被应对机制
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  through a Freudian mechanism
  所压抑下去
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  that they're too terrible
  这些经历太过糟糕
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  to bring to consciousness,
  无法进入意识
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  and the therapy brings them out into real life.
  而心理治疗则使这些记忆得以恢复