Research Catalog

Title

Remembering, repeating, and working through childhood trauma : the psychodynamics of recovered memories, multiple personality, ritual abuse, incest, molest, and abduction / Lawrence E. Hedges.

Author

Hedges, Lawrence E.

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

ix, 336 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Accusations of child abuse based on memories apparently recovered in psychotherapy, support groups, and similar settings have spurred a national debate. The question most frequently asked is, do these recovered memories refer to real events? This is the wrong question to ask, says Lawrence Hedges, the author of this important new work. What is vital is to understand the psychodynamic roots of remembered abuse.
• Drawing on a century of psychoanalytic study of memory and the way it operates in therapy, Hedges clarifies the misunderstandings and misinformation that currently exist in the media and popular press regarding memory and the nature of the psychotherapeutic process.

Subjects

• Psychoanalytic Therapy > methods
• Transference (Psychology)
• Multiple personality
• False memory syndrome
• Psychotherapist and patient
• Dissociative Identity Disorder > therapy
• Adult child abuse victims
• Professional-Patient Relations
• Child Abuse
• Countertransference (Psychology)
• Repression, Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Recovered Memory Crisis -- 1. Varieties of Remembering and Forgetting -- 2. Transference and Resistance Memories -- 3. The Fear of Breakdown, Emptiness, and Death -- 4. Background and History of Multiplicity -- 5. Understanding and Working with Multiples -- 6. The Problem of Duality -- 7. In Praise of the Dual Relationship -- 8. Duality as Essential to Psychological Cure -- 9. The Organizing Transference -- 10. Working Through the Organizing Transference -- 11. The Development of a Transference Psychosis: Sandy -- 12. Countertransference to the Organizing Experience -- 13. Therapists at Risk.

ISBN

1568212283

LCCN

94002266

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries