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Individuals who were sexually abused as a child generally have some sort of lingering, although inchoate, memories of the fact. The problem is, however, that some individuals may be particularly susceptible to suggestive memories and insist that they have memories when no abuse altogether existed. Innocent people can, therefore, be unjustly hurt and relationships ruptured on the basis of a client's supposed memories and on the basis of an unscrupulous and/or inexpert counselor's assistance.
The controversy of recovered memories devolves itself around two sides of the argument: There are those clinicians who, relying on long-term memory (LTM), assert that early traumatic memories are lodged deep into the unconscious in the storage of long-term memory, and being so discomfiting are, thereupon, blocked. Their blockage results in the phenomena of 'disassociation' or 'delayed memories' where early memories are either entirely forgotten or exist...
LTM is the unlimited capacity store that holds information over lengthy periods of time and, in fact, indefinitely. Psychoanalysis, and similar orientations, believe that long-term storage is permanent and that some disturbing memories are suppressed and can only be recovered by hypnosis and/or therapy. Most researchers, however, argue that concepts such as dissociation and unconsciousness, based on Freudian theories, are unverifiable and questionable.
Memory researchers and clinicians agree that memories of early childhood abuse have the same poignancy and impact as memories that have recently lodged in short-term memory (i.e. incidents that remain in the limited-capacity memory storage that contains information for approx. 20 seconds without rehearsal until 'dispatched'). Memories that are significant, or have had entrenching, enduring impact, lodge themselves in long-term memory; and incidents of…
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Questions and answers about memories of childhood abuse http://www.apa.org/topics/memories.html
Difficulty in Adulthood in Individuals that were Sexually-Abused as Children Introduction to Sexual Abuse in Children Sexually-abused children commonly develop problems that persist into adulthood. Child sexual abuse has come to be regarded as a cause of mental health problems in adult life. The influences of child sexual abuse on interpersonal, social and sexual functioning in adult life has only recently attracted attention. Research into child sexual abuse was initiated by the
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