Suggests a new way of speaking about the psychological events of remembering. The article begins with an overview of the conventional views of remembering, and then outlines an unconventional view of remembering. In the unconventional view a psychological event is essentially an historical event, an event in which its history is entailed, and one whose occurrence is a matter of contextual circumstances. After the analysis of remembering on the basis of this somewhat unconventional premises, the author discusses what this analysis (...) suggests for dealing with problems associated with memories of childhood sexual abuse. In particular, the problem of correspondence between memorial events, as reported in the present, and the event of the past about which the report is made is addressed. 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (shrink)