There is a pain --so utter

So Memory can step around -- across. . .

Emily Dickinson wrote those lovely words sometime in the middle of the 19th century. Ever since that same idea found its way into literature, the theater and movies -- the idea is that when a memory becomes too painful to bear, the mind finds a way to shut it out and seal it off, to "step around -- across."

Repressed memory has been studied by a team of researchers at the Harvard Medical School. Their findings may shed some light on the subject. It certainly is fruit for thought.

To read two articles about their study, click the links below:

Washington Post

New York Times