ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two situations in which the existence of two minds provides the best explanation for what occurs. The first is a case study reported by Joseph of a girl called Carol, who had been subjected to sexual abuse as a four-year-old. The second situation is one that many of us are familiar with—the experience often termed "driving on automatic pilot". When Carol watched the film, both her L-mind and R-mind were aware of what was happening to the girl, so that she could form both semantic and episodic memories of what she was seeing. Carol's experience raises questions about the concept of repressed memories and how we might recover the episodic memories from early childhood of older children or adults whose behaviour may indicate that those memories have triggered R-conscious behaviour for reasons that the L-mind cannot access.
