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By Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham. 290 pp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994. $22.95. ISBN 0-312-11454-0.

Stories about recovered ``memories'' of childhood sexual abuse -- memories supposedly long lost to consciousness and brought to light by techniques such as guided imagery, dream interpretation, and group therapeutic sessions -- have flooded the news these past few years. It has been claimed that millions of women have been victims, and many have been paraded on the daytime talk shows. Those accused of such crimes and their supporters fervently argue that such ``recovered memories'' are all too often tragically wrong.

The Myth of Repressed Memory by Loftus and Ketcham belongs in the latter camp. Loftus has been an inventive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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