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Are memories of sexual trauma fragmented?

Richard J McNally1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Memory (Hove, England)
|January 13, 2021
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Sexual assaultalcohol blackoutmemory fragmentationtonic immobilitytrauma

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