Some therapists claim that they can help their clients to recover long-repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. Many other psychologists are skeptical of this claim, largely because
A) just suggesting something may cause people to report a memory of an event that in fact never happened.
B) research has shown that people can recover painful repressed memories only through the use of hypnosis.
C) children must be at least eight or nine years old before they can begin to use repression.
D) the actual prevalence of childhood sexual abuse is known to be far rarer than the results that these therapists report.
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