We examined the incidence of recovered memories of child abuse in a large French general public sample (N = 3346). Of the 905 (27% of total sample) who reported having memories of abuse, 211 (23%) reported recovered memories of child abuse that they had no previous memory of, with 82 of these (9% of the 905) reporting that they did not know they were abused beforehand. Ninety percent of the latter reported having recovered their memories when not in a therapy at the time. Those who reported recovered memories outside of therapy often reported discussions with peers and/or media exposure related to childhood abuse that occurred either before or during memory recovery. Our prevalence results are discussed in light of the hypothesis that many recovered memories are in fact reinterpreted continuous memories. The findings on context are discussed in relation to the work on the malleability of memory.

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在治疗之外恢复对虐待儿童的记忆

我们在一个大型的法国公众样本中调查了恢复的虐待儿童记忆的发生率（N= 3346）。在905人中（占样本总数的27％），他们曾有过虐待的记忆，其中211人（23％）报告了他们以前没有记忆的虐待儿童的记忆，其中82人（在905人中的9％）报告说，不知道他们事先被虐待。后者中有90％的人报告说，他们当时不在接受治疗时已经恢复了记忆。那些在治疗之外报告记忆恢复的人经常报告与记忆恢复之前或期间发生的与儿童期虐待有关的同龄人和/或媒体接触的讨论。我们根据许多恢复的记忆实际上是重新解释的连续记忆的假设来讨论我们的普遍性结果。关于上下文的发现将与有关记忆可塑性的工作进行讨论。