Remembering trauma : a psychotherapist's guide to memory and illusion

Author(s)

• Mollon, Phil

Bibliographic Information

Remembering trauma : a psychotherapist's guide to memory and illusion

Phil Mollon

John Wiley, 1998

• pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780471976134

Description

This review of the debate on recovered memory relates the issues to a range of psychological therapies (not just psychoanalysis) and goes beyond the debate to demonstrate the issues in practice. This book provides a behavioural review of the issues, and shows the use and misuse of recovered memory within the therapy process.

Table of Contents

Memory: What Is It: How Is It Organised: How Reliable Is It: How Is It Distorted Forgetting and Remembering Trauma. Repression, Implicit Memory and Other Forms of Knowing and Not Knowing. What Happens to Memory in Traumatised State of Mind Lessons from Hypnosis and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Psychoanalysis: Freud and Recovered Memories. True and False Narratives in Psychoanalysis: Memory, Reconstruction and Healing. Recollections of Evil: Cult, Religious and Ritual Abuse. Guidelines and Summaries. Epilogue: Lessons of the Debate. References. Index.

Volume

pbk. ISBN 9780471982142

Description

This review of the debate on recovered memory relates the issues to a range of psychological therapies (not just psychoanalysis) and goes beyond the debate to demonstrate the issues in practice. This book provides a behavioural review of the issues, and shows the use and misuse of recovered memory within the therapy process.

Table of Contents

• Memory: What Is It?: How Is It Organised?: How Reliable Is It?: How Is It Distorted?
• Forgetting and Remembering Trauma
• Repression, Implicit Memory and Other Forms of Knowing and Not Knowing
• What Happens to Memory in Traumatised State of Mind?
• Lessons from Hypnosis and Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Psychoanalysis: Freud and Recovered Memories
• True and False Narratives in Psychoanalysis: Memory, Reconstruction and Healing
• Recollections of Evil: Cult, Religious and Ritual Abuse
• Guidelines and Summaries
• Epilogue: Lessons of the Debate
• References
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA36006578
• ISBN:
  • 047197613X
  • 0471982148
• LCCN: 97049292
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chichester ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 221 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC569.5
  • DC21 : 616.85
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Adult child abuse victims -- Psychology
  • LCSH : Recovered memory
  • LCSH : Psychic trauma
  • LCSH : Autobiographical memory
  • LCSH : Repression (Psychology)
  • LCSH : False memory syndrome