This page, by Jim Hopper, Ph.D., presents scientific research and scholarly resources addressing amnesia and delayed recall for memories of childhood sexual abuse.

This Web site brings together the extensive and growing evidence of cases ignored or overlooked by skeptics. The project began as a letter to PBS. That letter described how an undergraduate Research Assistant at Brown University found half a dozen corroborated cases of recovered memory in just a few hours of electronic database searching. That modest research effort has evolved into this Web site.

Information from APA s Public Affairs Office to help you understand how repressed, recovered, or suggested memories of childhood abuse may occur and what you can do if you or a family member is concerned about a childhood memory.

This site presents materials on issues surrounding the hotly debated topics of Repressed/Recovered Memory and their therapies (RMT), Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD/DID), and accusations of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and Mind Control (MC) ...

Connections to Related Web Sites False and Repressed Memory Connections A site that argues for the reality of repressed memories. Mental Health Net's abuse resources. A write-up of Loftus' Lost in a Mall study. A couple of lawyers provide an overview of why they think some people have been falsely accused due to false memories. Another report of a false /recovered memory. An argument for the ...

Experimental psychology has much to offer in the current debate about memories for childhood abuse. However, laboratory scientists, with their enormous cognitive authority to define reality for the rest of the population, must be especially conservative when arguing that laboratory results on memory generalize to contested memories of abuse.