Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse
Final Report

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• Cover page and preface (3 pages, 36K)
• Table of Contents (1 page, 13K)

• Symptomatic Clients and Memories of Childhood Abuse: What the Trauma and Child Sexual Abuse Literature Tells Us (92 pages, 876K)
• Reply to the Alpert, Brown and Courtois Document: The Science of Memory and the Practice of Psychotherapy (27 pages, 241K)
• The Politics of Memory: A Response to Ornstein, Ceci and Loftus (19 pages, 168K)

• Adult Recollections of Childhood Abuse: Cognitive and Developmental Perspectives (49 pages, 444K)
• Response to "Adult Recollections of Childhood Abuse: Cognitive and Developmental Perspectives" (24 pages, 213K)
• More on the Repressed Memory Debate: A Rejoinder to Alpert, Brown and Courtois (21 pages, 184K)

• Final Conclusions of the APA Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse (15 pages, 121K)