ABSTRACT

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. 

This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging  disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology, law, psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA, along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause.

This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resisting disclosure. 

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

In conversation with Ross Cheit

chapter 2|12 pages

False memory syndrome movement

The origins and the promoters

chapter 3|7 pages

The rocky road to false memories

Stories the media missed

chapter 4|8 pages

Re-examining the “Lost in the Mall” study

Were “false memories” created to promote a false defence? In conversation with Ruth Blizard

chapter 5|10 pages

Evaluating false memory research

chapter 7|8 pages

False memory syndrome

chapter 8|8 pages

Trauma, skin: memory, speech

chapter 9|11 pages

Sigmund Freud's concept of repression

Historical and empirical perspectives

chapter 12|5 pages

What if I should die?

chapter 13|12 pages

Finding a new narrative

Meaningful responses to “false memory” disinformation

chapter 14|23 pages

“Do no harm”?