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Recovering memories of the offense in "amnesic" sexual offenders
W L Marshall1, G Serran, L E Marshall
1Rockwood Psychological Services, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. bill@rockwoodpsyc.com
Abstract:
This paper describes a technique designed to assist sexual offenders to recover memories of their offense. We have consistently observed that some sexual offenders present as having no recall of their offense although they are able to remember other events of the day of the offense. This failure to recall offense details prevents the offenders from making an appropriate disclosure which, in turn, blocks attempts to identify their offense pathways and develop relapse prevention plans. The memory recovery technique we describe is based on experimental literature on memory and we outline its use with 22 clients, 20 of whom showed satisfactory recovery of their memories.
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