Long-Term Memory in Adults Exposed to Childhood Violence: Remembering Genital Contact Nearly 20 Years Later

Goldfarb, Deborah; Goodman, Gail S.; Larson, Rakel P.; Eisen, Mitchell L.; Qin, Jianjian

doi:10.1177/2167702618805742

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“…On this occasion, dissociative amnesia was widely covered in the media and French proponents were regularly invited to explain this mechanism. Nevertheless, there are other arguments for long statute of limitations that do not emphasize the trauma model of dissociative amnesia (e.g., Goldfarb, Goodman, Larson, Eisen, & Qin, 2019).…”

Section: Frequencies Of Discussion and Recovered Memories During Thementioning

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Reports of recovered memories of childhood abuse in therapy in France

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Patihis

Payoux

2019

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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 action, as well as a debate about whether such memories might be repressed, forgotten, or false memories. More than two decades after the height of the controversy, it is unclear to what degree such memories are still recovered today, and to what extent it occurs in France.In our French survey of 1312 participants (M age = 33; 53% female), 551 reported having done therapy at some point. Of that 551, 33 (6%) indicated they had recovered memories of abuse in therapy that they did not know about before therapy. Sexual abuse was the most commonly reported type that was recovered in therapy (79%). As in past research, discussing the possibility of repressed memories with therapists was associated with reports of recovered memories of abuse. Surprisingly, memory recovery occurred just as much in behavioural and cognitive therapies as it did in therapies focused on trauma. We found recovered memories in a proportion of clients who began therapy recently. Recovered memories in therapy appears to be an ongoing concern in France.

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Section: Frequencies Of Discussion and Recovered Memories During Thementioning

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Reports of recovered memories of childhood abuse in therapy in France

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Patihis

Payoux

2019

Memory

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“…Nearly 20 years later, we contacted a subset of the child victims to examine their long‐term memory for the medical exam (Goldfarb, Goodman, Larson, Eisen, & Qin, in press). Lost memory of (or failure to disclose) being in the hospital was evident overall in 17% of the sample.…”

Section: Longitudinal Studies Of Child Maltreatment and Memorymentioning

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Trauma and Long‐Term Memory for Childhood Events: Impact Matters

Goodman

Quas

Goldfarb

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Child Dev Perspectives

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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 adults remember the traumatic childhood experiences. In this article, we examine the predictors of the accuracy of adults’ long‐term memory for maltreatment and events related to the maltreatment experienced in childhood. First, we discuss memory for negative or threatening information and how child maltreatment may affect memory. Second, we highlight methodological challenges inherent in this scientific inquiry. Third, we describe the findings from our longitudinal research on the accuracy of adults’ memory for child abuse and for subsequent involvement in the legal system. We conclude that, overall, the greater the traumatic impact experienced, the more accurate the later memory, although factors related to development, individual differences, and interviews moderate the effects of childhood trauma on the accuracy of adults’ memory.

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“…Longitudinal studies have shown that young maltreated children can accurately retain salient memories of their maltreatment well into adulthood (Alexander et al, 2005; Goldfarb, Goodman, Larson, Eisen, & Qin, 2018; Goodman, Quas, Goldfarb, Gonzalves, & Gonzalez, 2019). Whilst acknowledging that the relationship between negative emotional events, such as maltreatment, and memory is complex, for many adults the greater the traumatic impact of the childhood event, the more accurate the memory of the event in adulthood (Goodman et al, 2019).…”

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The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

Gudjónsson

Vagni

Maiorano

et al. 2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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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 participants were 134 children aged between 7 and 17 years with a history of reported sexual abuse. All children completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2), a non-verbal IQ test, and The University of California at Los Angeles Child/Adolescent Reaction Index for posttraumatic stress (UCLA-PTSD-RI-5). Delayed suggestibility was measured after a 1 week delay. A Hierarchical Regression showed that trauma symptoms accounted overall for 43.4% of the variance in delayed suggestibility after controlling for age, sex, IQ, and immediate recall (a large effect size). There was a small shared variance between trauma and immediate suggestibility (low effect size). The findings strongly suggest that the severity of trauma symptoms impact more on delayed than immediate suggestibility. The theoretical and forensic implications are discussed.

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Long-Term Memory in Adults Exposed to Childhood Violence: Remembering Genital Contact Nearly 20 Years Later

Cited by 26 publications

References 74 publications

Reports of recovered memories of childhood abuse in therapy in France

Reports of recovered memories of childhood abuse in therapy in France

Trauma and Long‐Term Memory for Childhood Events: Impact Matters

The relationship between trauma symptoms and immediate and delayed suggestibility in children who have been sexually abused

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