Recent work suggests that the debate surrounding repressed memory and traumatic
forgetting continues today. To further investigate this debate, we performed preregistered …

In recent years, society has been stunned by high‐profile cases in which adults allege they
were sexually victimized in childhood. A crucial issue in these cases is how accurately …

We report on a unique Italian criminal case in which a court ruled that a therapist implanted
false memories of abuse in a young girl. Using therapeutic excerpts, we show that the …

Adults' claims of decades-old child maltreatment raise questions about how to obtain
accurate memories about childhood events. In this study, adults who experienced a …

Recovered memories of abuse in therapy are especially controversial if the clients were not
aware they were abused before therapy. In the past, such memory recovery has led to legal …

One of the most heated debates in psychological science concerns the concept of repressed
memory. We discuss how the debate on repressed memories continues to surface in legal …

There is general absence of research about the relationship between trauma symptoms and
immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused. The …

When adults allege childhood victimization, their long-term memory comes under scrutiny.
This scrutiny can extend to the adults' memory of childhood interviews. The concerns raise …

With increasing frequency, adults are coming forward to allege that they suffered sexual
abuse in childhood. Legitimate questions are then raised in these “historic” cases about …

Childhood trauma can have negative effects on several domains of mental functioning,
including Autobiographical Memory (AM). Conflicting results emerge in the scientific …