Others disagree, arguing that the mind can protect itself by banishing memories of trauma from awareness, making it difficult for victims to remember their most horrific experiences until it is safe to do so many years later. While acknowledging that trauma is often all too memorable, these certain clinical trauma theorists assert that a condition known as “traumatic dissociative amnesia” leaves a large minority of victims unable to recall their trauma, precisely because it was so overwhelmingly terrifying.
而另一些学者则持有不同意见。他们认为（人的）头脑可以通过将创痛的记忆从意识中消除的方式来保护自身，从而使受害者很难回忆起他们最为可怕的经历。这种机制会持续多年，直到这种记忆变得安全为止。虽然也承认精神创伤常常是刻骨铭心的，但这些临床创伤学者们也声称有一种被称为“创伤离解性失忆症”（traumatic dissociative amnesia）的情况，让相当一部分受害者不能回忆起他们的创伤，这恰恰是因为这种创伤极为可怕。