Books like Repressed memories by Renée Fredrickson

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood stress and trauma can create lasting health problems and offers ways to disrupt the cycle for both children and their families.

Linda Katherine Cutting’s memoir, Memory Slips, chronicles her abuse‑ridden childhood, the healing role of music, and the resurfacing of repressed memories that shattered her musical world.

In an effort to bring scientific understanding to this complex and highly emotional controversy, psychologist Robert A. Baker has collected important essays by noted experts on child sexual abuse.

Pillar of Salt introduces the controversy over recollections of childhood sexual abuse as the window onto a much broader field of ideas concerning memory, storytelling, and the psychology of women. The book moves beyond the poles of "true" and "false" memories to show how women's stories reveal layers of gendered and ambiguous meanings, spanning a wide historical, cultural, literary, and clinical landscape. Pillar of Salt cuts a wide swath through modern Western history, extending the concept of transformative remembering into stories about the female self that have emerged historically in discourses on sexual abuse, hypnosis, and hysteria. As a constellation of topics, these writings portray a female subject in flux and a cultural situation where gender identity is unstable and thereby open to varying, sometimes conflicting, interpretations. Haaken shows how ideas within psychology about "concealed knowledge" are influenced by larger social and historical dynamics that shape the storytelling conventions available for creating an internally coherent narrative.

Catherine McCall recounts how she uncovered and survived decades of abuse concealed within her seemingly perfect upper‑middle‑class family.