Resources

Basic Propositions: Memory

This memo contains excerpts from social science literature about the impacts of trauma on survivors’ ability to recall the details of traumatic events. This literature can help to explain a survivor’s gaps in memory, and rebut harmful assumptions, inferences, and arguments about their credibility.

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