” I have no difficulty about enhancing memory. Removing memory is more complicated… to go into your head and pluck out a memory of unfortunate love experience, that is a bad idea. You know, in the end, we are who we are. We are all part of what we have experienced…Would I have liked to have had the Viennese [Holocaust] experience removed from me? No! And it was horrible. But it shapes you.”

From Trauma and Memory – Peter A. Levine, PhD