The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory | Semantic Scholar

There has been a rise in reported memories of childhood sexual abuse that were allegedly repressed for many years, and people with recently unearthed memories are suing alleged perpetrators for events that happened 20, 30, even 40 or more years earlier.

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The mental health profession is currently divided over the phenomenon of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and this book should be of interest to therapists and lawyers on both sides of the debate, as well as to the countless people who have been touched personaly by this painful issue.