Careful and extensive documentation of repressed memories in DID patients. Therapist responses to recovered and never-forgotten memories of child sexual abuse. National survey of 300 female and 300 male licensed psychologists. The age at which the alleged abuse occurred and the therapist's age produced significant effects on evaluations of credibility, as did an interaction of the therapist's sex and theoretical orientation. A study of 20 children under the age of five at the time of documented traumatic events.
Verbal recall depends on child's age when traumatized and on the chronicity of the trauma.
Children under 28-36 months tended to have less verbal memory of their experiences. I disorders seem to remember the event and to give impressively clear, detailed accounts of their experiences. Children who experience Type II traumas often forget. They may forget whole segments of childhood. Amnesias in war cases.