Research Catalog

Title

The recovered memory/false memory debate / edited by Kathy Pezdek, William P. Banks.

Publication

San Diego : Academic Press, ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pezdek, Kathy.
• Banks, William P.

Description

xv, 394 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Examining the validity of recovered memories of past events which are of sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences, this study asks are these "memories" real? Examples from current literature as well as report from the American and British Psychological Associations are included.

Subject

• False memory syndrome
• Recovered memory in children
• Memory in children
• Memory
• Children
• Infants
• Repression (Psychology)
• Recovered memory
• Memory
• Child
• Child Abuse, Sexual
• Infant
• Repression, Psychology
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• memory (psychological concept)
• Recovered memory
• Infants
• Children
• False memory syndrome
• Memory in children
• Recovered memory in children
• Gedächtnis
• Kind
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Erinnerungstäuschung
• Aussagepsychologie
• Valse herinnering
• Kinderen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Childhood trauma and memory. Predictors of accurate and inaccurate memories of traumatic events experienced in childhood / Gail S. Goodman [and others] -- Amnesia, partial amnesia, and delayed recall among adult survivors of childhood trauma / Mary R. Harvey and Judith Lewis Herman -- Comparing amnesic and nonamnesic survivors of childhood sexual abuse : a longitudinal study / Catherine Cameron -- True memories of childhood trauma : flaws, absences, and returns / Lenore Terr -- Functional retrograde amnesia as a model of amnesia for childhood sexual abuse / Neal J. Cohen -- II. The development of self and autobiographical memory. Making memories : the influence of joint encoding on later recall by young children / Minda Tessler and Katherine Nelson -- How can I remember when "I" wasn't there : long-term retention of traumatic experiences and emergence of the cognitive self / Mark L. Howe, Mary L. Courage, and Carole Peterson -- Children's event recall : are memories constructed through discourse? / Robyn Fivush -- Children's memory for emotional events : implications for testimony / Nancy L. Stein.
• III. Childhood memory : distortion and suggestibility. Memory for childhood events : how suggestible is it? / Kathy Pezdek and Chantal Roe -- Contextual influences on children's remembering / Peter A. Ornstein and Jennifer T. Myers -- Repeatedly thinking about a non-event : source misattributions among preschoolers / Stephen J. Ceci [and others] -- Reducing the potential for distortion of childhood memories / Karen J. Saywitz and Susan Moan-Hardie -- IV. Repressed memory and recovered memory. Contextualizing and clarifying criticisms of memory work in psychotherapy / D. Stephen Lindsay --Seeking the core : the issues and evidence surrounding recovered accounts of sexual trauma / Jonathan W. Schooler -- The trauma-memory argument and recovered memory therapy / John F. Kihlstrom -- Recovered memories : lost and found? / Michael P. Toglia -- Professional practice, psychological science, and the recovered memory debate / Judith L. Alpert -- On the construction of truth and falsity : whose memory, whose history / Laura S. Brown -- Informed clinical practice and the delayed memory controversy / Christine A. Courtois.
• Interim report of the Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse / American Psychological Association -- Recovered memories : the report of the Working Party of the British Psychological Society.

ISBN

• 0125529759
• 9780125529754

LCCN

96012262

OCLC

• ocm34355670
• 34355670
• SCSB-9783557

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library