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Forgetting Trauma?In Daniel Reisberg & Paula Hertel (eds.), Memory and Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2004.This chapter examines the conditions under which traumatic events are remembered or forgotten, focusing on the frequently espoused belief that all trauma will be forgotten — a belief presumably based on the notion that too much emotion hurts memory. In particular, it reviews the evidence relevant to the debate about the extent to which trauma victims typically repress and then later recover memories of the traumatic event. In examining the reported evidence — from victims of childhood sexual abu…Read more
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18Inhibiting retrieval of trauma cues in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuseCognition and Emotion 18 (4): 479-493. 2004.
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36Autobiographical memory specificity in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuseCognition and Emotion 20 (3-4): 527-535. 2006.
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