Open AccessRecovered Memories of Child Sexual Abuse: Forgetting to Remember and Remembering to Forget, Part 2: The Nature of Memory and Ordinary Forgetting
Author(s) -
Sylvia Solinski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
frontiers in the psychotherapy of trauma and dissociation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2523-5125
pISSN - 2523-5117
DOI - 10.46716/ftpd.2020.0034
Subject(s) - forgetting , motivated forgetting , psychology , child sexual abuse , sexual abuse , dissociation (chemistry) , memory errors , cognitive psychology , child abuse , false memory , phenomenology (philosophy) , psychoanalysis , cognitive science , poison control , recall , epistemology , suicide prevention , philosophy , medicine , chemistry , environmental health
This is the second of three articles on recovered memories of child sexual abuse. The phenomenology of recovered memories is distinct from other, non-traumatic, memories and is most usefully considered in the context of the nature of memory and forgetting. A number of experimental paradigms and approaches that attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of recovered memory are described, and the evidence for the creation of false memories is examined and found wanting. The article concludes with a case study. The third article will consider the role of trauma and dissociation in recovered memories of child sexual abuse.