The purpose of this study was to use directed-forgetting methods to test and see if an encoding style would characterize psychiatrically impaired adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. There were three groups tested the PTSD group was made up of adult women who had been sexually abused as children and who were currently diagnosed with PTSD. ... The words ranged from everyday house hold words to words like incest or sex. ...
This may happen during rape when a women is forced to have sex, is physically beaten while sex or is strangled during sex. ... The teen dating violence may range from forced sex, to physical abuse, and emotional abuse. ... They often times are forced to have sex while being held down against their will. ...
The problem of battered women has only come into the limelight in the past few years, its progression toward public awareness paralleling the growth of the women's movement. Historically, there has never been any public outcry against the brutality of battered women. But now we are learning the problem is far more pervasive and terrible than it was ever thought to be and that the myths which had previously rationalized why such violence occurred between men and women who supposedly loved each other are untrue. Every minute in the United States, four women are beaten by a significant ...
