| Recovered memories of abuse in women with documented child sexual victimization histories. | |
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PMID: 8564277 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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This study provides evidence that some adults who claim to have recovered memories of sexual abuse recall actual events that occurred in childhood. One hundred twenty-nine women with documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked about abuse history. Seventeen years following the initial report of the abuse, 80 of the women recalled the victimization. One in 10 women (16% of those who recalled the abuse) reported that at some time in the past they had forgotten about the abuse. Those with a prior period of forgetting--the women with "recovered memories"--were younger at the time of abuse and were less likely to have received support from their mothers than the women who reported that they had always remembered their victimization. The women who had recovered memories and those who had always remembered had the same number of discrepancies when their accounts of the abuse were compared to the reports from the early 1970s. |
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Authors:
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L M Williams |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of traumatic stress Volume: 8 ISSN: 0894-9867 ISO Abbreviation: J Trauma Stress Publication Date: 1995 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1996-03-01 Completed Date: 1996-03-01 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8809259 Medline TA: J Trauma Stress Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 649-73 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA. |
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Adolescent Adult Child Child Abuse, Sexual / diagnosis, psychology* Child, Preschool Documentation Female Humans Infant Mental Recall* Repression* Retention (Psychology) Violence / psychology |
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