Citation

Wakefield H, Underwager R. Behav. Sci. Law 1992; 10(4): 483-507.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/bsl.2370100406

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Recently there has been increased civil litigation by adults suing parents and others for sexual abuse following the recovering of memories of the abuse through therapy. The memories are recovered with the help of therapists who use concepts such as repression and dissociation to account for the lack of memories and who then use techniques such as hypnosis and survivors' groups. However, the claims of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse recovered in the course of therapy are unlikely to be supported by empirical data.

Language: en