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Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate

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ISBN-10: 0125529759

ISBN-13: 9780125529754

Edition: 1996

Authors: Kathy Pezdek, William P. Banks

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A debate has been raging in courtrooms, journals, and the popular press about the validity of recovered memories. The memories in question are of childhood sexual abuse, mistreatment, and trauma. They have tremendous power for harm or healing, for righting of wrongs or for unjust accusations; it all depends on their validity. Is it possible for a memory to be lost and then "recovered?" What is the validity of such a memory? Can children be persuaded that events did or did not happen? What causes childhood amnesia and are traumatic childhood memories more or less likely to be remembered than nontraumatic ones? This book examines these and other complex but critical questions. It presents the…    
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Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 8/7/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 394
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Childhood Trauma and Memory
Predictors of Accurate and Inaccurate Memories of Traumatic Events Experienced in Childhood
Recall among Adult Survivors of Childhood
Comparing Amnesic and Nonamnesic Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Longitudinal Study
True Memories of Childhood Trauma: Flaws, Absences, and Returns
Functional Retrograde Amnesia as a Model of Amnesia for Childhood Sexual Abuse
The Development of Self and Autobiographical Memory:
Making Memories: The Influence of Joint Encoding on Later Recall by Young Children
How Can I Remember When "I" Wasn't There: Long-Term Retention of Traumatic Experiences and Emergence of the Cognitive Self
Young Children's Event Recall: Are Memories Constructed through Discourse?
Children's Memory for Traumatic Events: Implications for Testimony
Childhood Memory: Distortion and Suggestibility
Memory for Childhood Events: How Suggestible Is It?
Contextual Influences on Children's Remembering
Repeatedly Thinking about a Non-event: Source Misattributions among Preschoolers
Reducing the Potential for Distortion of Childhood Memories
Repressed Memory and Recovered Memory
Contextualizing and Clarifying Criticisms of Memory Work in Psychotherapy
Seeking the Core: The Issues and Evidence Surrounding Recovered Accounts of Sexual Trauma
The Trauma-Memory Argument and Recovered Memory Therapy
Recovered Memories: Lost and Found?
Professional Practice, Psychological Science, and the Recovered Memory Debate
On the Construction of Truth and Falsity: Whose Memory, Whose History
Informed Clinical Practice and the Delayed Memory Controversy
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
Index