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Women who were sexually abused as children suffer an increased risk of being repeatedly victimized through their adult lives (e.g., see Chu, 1992;Kluft, 1990aKluft, , 1990bvan der Kolk, 1989). In the majority of studies investigating risk factors in adult sexual victimization, the most highly correlated variable is previous sexual victimization (

Our research used the Deese/Roediger and McDermott paradigm [1] to examine the effects of hypnosis on memory. The paradigm yielded a high rate of false recognition (>.70), regardless of whether participants were hypnotized or not. Hypnotized (N = 21) and non-hypnotized (N = 20) participants reported high false recognition rates and were very confident in their remembrances, independent of their recognition accuracy and their level of hypnotic suggestibility (medium vs. high). Although our results provide no support for the proposition that hypnosis is a viable memory enhancement procedure, hypnosis did not impair recognition above and beyond the non-hypnotic condition.Despite more than two decades of research, the use of hypnosis as a recall enhancement procedure remains controversial. On the one hand, perhaps the majority of researchers in the field of hypnosis and memory [e.g., 2-6] have expressed great concern about the potential of hypnosis to increase false memories and unwarranted confidence in remembrances. As Kihlstrom notes [2], concerns 3

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