Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire There may be no single, simple explanation for reports of recovered
memories of childhood sexual abuse. Witness the first evidence that
people who report such recall display either of two cognitive profiles,
one signaling a susceptibility to retrieving false memories and the
other a tendency to have forgotten earlier recollections of actual
abuse.
Members of the first group typically salvage child sex-abuse
memories gradually via psychotherapy that