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Sexual abuse has been particularly common in the American society for many years. Thousands of victims are subject to sexual abuse every day. In majority of the instances, the abuse occurs before the victim reaches the age of 18. The abuse ....

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... just false memories? This has caused many controversies in the field of psychology. Many people believe in the theory of repressed memories. Psychologists argue that people store different experiences in the right and left halves of their brain. The left stores sequential, logical, language-oriented experience; the right stores perceptual, spatial experiences. When people try to retrieve right-brain information through left-brain techniques, they sometimes hit a blank (Bass 71). Psychologists also state that forgetting is one of the most common and effective ways children deal with sexual abuse. Many children are able to forget abo ...