Adults who have trouble remembering incidents of childhood sexual abuse have sometimes been led by therapists to believe that their memory difficulties result from:

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3 April, 01:43

Adults who have trouble remembering incidents of childhood sexual abuse have sometimes been led by therapists to believe that their memory difficulties result from:

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Shania Holmes · Answer 1

Adults who have trouble remembering incidents of childhood sexual abuse have sometimes been led by therapists to believe that their memory difficulties result from: repression.

Explanation:

Repression is a process by which a person in not able to remember things form the past, because of the great amount of displeasure it can generate to the person. When there has been a traumatic event such a sexual abuse, repression ocurres in order to avoid facing the traumatic event.

Repression regardless sexuality is often common, and it is even more present in incidents of childhood sexual abuse.