Which person experiencing recovered memories is most likely to have actually suffered sexual abuse?

a) Callista, who while in the hospital, had flashbacks of sexual abuse and after joining a therapy group for incest survivors, recalled even more abuse.
b) Jolinda, whose therapist repeatedly suggested that her depression resulted from incest. When pressed for details she wrote pages of her repressed memories, including being molested at 1 year of age.
c) Nadine, whose psychiatrist used hypnosis to uncover her repressed memories of being in a satanic cult and having sex with animals.
d) Angelique, who is in treatment for borderline personality disorder and whose therapist has used memory-recovery techniques such as dream interpretation and imagery to recover Angelique's memories of incest beginning at 6 months of age.


ANS: a

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