But it is the advocates who misinterpret the data when attempting to show that victims are often unable to recall their traumatic experiences.

How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame?

But nostalgia has led both states to misinterpret the challenges they now face, whether by linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein s Iraq, or Hezbollah to Iran and Syria.

Strikingly, both advocates and skeptics of the concept of traumatic dissociative amnesia adduce the same studies when defending their diametrically opposed views. But it is the advocates who misinterpret the data when attempting to show that victims are often unable to recall their traumatic experiences.