Name: Memory in Dispute
ISBN: 9780429477195

ABSTRACT

In this opening chapter, Gwen Adshead provides a careful overview of the research literature concerning the main issues in this debate. She includes legal issues and child and adult memory in her remit.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

chapter One|11 pages

Flying by twilight: When adults recover memories of abuse in childhood

chapter Two|14 pages

“Children are liars aren’t they?”—An exploration of denial processes in child abuse

chapter Three|9 pages

Trauma, skin: Memory, speech

chapter Four|10 pages

The psychoanalytic concept of repression: Historical and empirical perspectives

chapter Five|11 pages

False memory syndrome

chapter Six|7 pages

“What if I should die?”

chapter Seven|16 pages

False memory syndrome movements: The origins and the promoters

chapter Eight|25 pages

Serving two masters: A patient, a therapist, and an allegation of sexual abuse

chapter Nine|6 pages

Syndromitis, false or repressed memories?

chapter Ten|17 pages

Terror in the consulting-room—memory, trauma, and dissociation

chapter Eleven|6 pages

Recovered memories: Shooting the messenger

chapter Twelve|17 pages

False memory syndrome—false therapy syndrome

chapter Thirteen|13 pages

How can we remember but be unable to recall? The complex functions of multi-modular memory

chapter Fourteen|6 pages

Objective fact and psychological truth: Some thoughts on “recovered memory”

Memory in Dispute