During discussion, she dissociated in an alter personality and began talking about a psychotic ritual practice that her mother would repeatedly perform on her. Deciding to enter treatment to better understand why this occurred, through the use of hypnosis, Kluft was able to help the woman in emerging with material of abuse. Though material emerged, she believed them to be inaccurate accounts. The following day, she had found photo albums and her mother's diaries which described the detailed accounts of abuse that she had told Kluft. .
These examples are only two of many in which Kluft is able to provide evidence to support that repressed memories still exist and are indeed real. Traumatic experiences avoided by the mind will be suppressed and driven from mental awareness. Though information retrieved through hypnosis may be attacked for their credibility, the witness accounts and physical evidence which back up the material obtained through it, goes without saying. .
In opposition, Loftus argues that repressed memories are not real. Through suggestibility and manipulation, people can make others believe what they want to believe by exercising the creation of false memories and implanting them into the individual. Through a combination of actual memories and suggestions made by others, false memories can be created. She goes on to state that the easiest way to implant these false memories is usually through someone that the individual trusts and believes in. Loftus supports her claim by providing various examples of how therapists implant false memories through therapy without the patients even acknowledging it and that the only way to prove the memories to be unauthentic was through physical evidence or witnesses. .
In one example, a church counselor, during therapy, made Beth Rutherford believe that her clergyman father had raped and impregnated her twice between the ages of seven and fourteen.