A survey of 129 women “with previously documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked detailed questions about their abuse histories to answer the question ‘Do people actually forget traumatic events such as child sexual abuse, and if so, how common is such forgetting?’ A large proportion of the women (38%) did not recall the abuse that had been reported 17 years earlier. Women who were younger at the time of the abuse and those who were molested by someone they knew were more likely to have no recall of the abuse.”
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Do People Repress Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse?
From 62 Journal of Counseling & Clincal Psychology 1167 (1994):