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Approximately 6 pages worth of technical (psychology) notes on memory suppression and its relevance to child abuse/molestation. Collective bibliography lists approximately 30 relevant sources.
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to recall childhood experiences, even traumatic ones, they sometimes are unable to do so. At other times, people can remember things that they have not recalled in a long time,
perhaps in response to some new retrieval cues. These are not the kinds of memories that are at the heart of this dispute about delayed memories. Instead, we focus here
on the kinds of memories that arise when a patient begins therapy totally unaware of any sexual trauma from childhood, and when askeddirectly, invariably denies a history of sexual abuse.
The therapist begins a regimen of questionable practices, perhaps hypnosis, age regression,guided imagery, questionable bibliotherapy, sexualized dream interpretation, and other techniques designed to dislodge supposedly recalcitrant memoriesof sexual abuse
(see Lindsay & Read, 1994, for a critique of these techniques). The ultimate product is sometimes a new set of memories of abusive events, for example, a new history of
being raped every week from the ages of 5 to 15. These events are thought to have once been repressed but are now (supposedly) accurately remembered. In other cases, the
abusive events are thought to have occurred during the first couple of years oflife, and through some of the same techniques plus, perhaps, a dollop of body memory analysis,
the infant experiences are supposedly now accurately recalled. In pursuing this line of thought and treatment, clinicians and others do a serious disservice to large numbers of genuine abuse survivors
who have always remembered their trauma. Several researchers and clinicians have pointed to the complete lack of cogent scientific evidence that memory routinely serves us by burying into
the unconscious a long stream of traumatic experiences (Pope & Hudson, in press), or by allowing us to "know" about our abuse because of currently experienced body memories. Enns et
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