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Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory.
List of contents
Introduction
; 1: In conversation with Ross Chei;
2: False Memory Syndrome Movement: The Origins and the Promoters;
3: The Rocky Road to False Memories - Stories the Media Missed;
4: Re-examining the Lost-in-the-Mall Study: Were "false memories" created to promote a false defence? In conversation with Ruth Blizzard;
5: Evaluating False Memory Research, Winja Buss;
6: The Abuse of Science to Silence the Abused
; 7: False memory syndrome
; 8: Trauma, skin: memory, speech;
9: Sigmund Freud's Concept of Repression: Historical and Empirical Perspectives;
10: Terror in the consulting-room memory, trauma, and dissociation
; 11: How can we remember but be unable to recall? The complex functions of multi-modular memory;
12: "What if I should die?";
13: Finding a new narrative: Meaningful responses to 'false memory' disinformation;
14: `Do No Harm'? Hearing and responding to victims and survivors
About the author
Valerie Sinason, PhD,
is a widely published Writer and Psychoanalyst. She has pioneered disability and trauma-informed therapy for over 30 years, is President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, Founder and Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and on the Board of the ISSTD.
Ashley Conway, PhD, AFBPsS, is a Counselling Psychologist. He has worked in a wide range of fields of trauma, ranging through severe critical incidents to long term abuse, and has published widely in these areas. He is currently the Chair of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London, UK.
Summary
Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory.
