Psychodynamic experience enhances recognition of hidden childhood trauma.

Background: Experimental psychology has only recently provided supporting evidence for Freud's and Janet's description of unconscious phenomena. Here, we aimed to assess whether specific abilities, such as personal psychodynamic experience, enhance the ability to recognize unconscious phenomena in peers - in other words, to better detect implicit knowledge related to individual self-experience.

Methodology And Principal Findings: First, we collected 14 videos from seven healthy adults who had experienced a sibling's cancer during childhood and seven matched controls.