Directed Forgetting of Trauma Cues in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse With and Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Children that are in sexual abuse situations are smaller and not as powerful as their predator. In some cases these predators might be family members, if that were the ... to forget about the harsh reality that they are in and focus on something else, during the trauma. The purpose of this study was to use directed-forgetting methods to test and see if an encoding style would characterize psychiatrically impaired adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. There were ...

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