When a person recovers a memory of an event from their past for which they claim little or no previous awareness, how reliable is that memory? In this refreshing new approach to the problem, Graham Davies and Tim Dalgleish have assembled leading figures from both sides of the de…
Meeting the issue -- The path less traveled -- Appraising the problem -- Joining the contest -- Fighting for Danny Smith -- The scope of suspicion -- Moving from defense to offense -- Getting to know patients -- Making sense of DSM -- What is meant by hysteria? -- Words, words, …
"Paul R. McHugh delivers a first-hand account of his battle against the theory of "repressed sexual memories" in the 1990s and closes with an argument against today's excessive diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Driven by a deep passion to rid psychiatry of nons…
Trauma: explorations in memory
"Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discoverin…
Trauma: explorations in memory
"Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discoverin…
'Those who study memory find no easy answers when they try to validate the authenticity of human memories. Prozan provides a fresh, unbiased look at the issues involved in the false memory debate. She neither endorses nor discards the 'false memory syndrome' in this book. Embrac…
Those who study memory find no easy answers when they try to validate the authenticity of human memories. Prozan provides a fresh, unbiased look at the issues involved in the false memory debate. She neither endorses nor discards the 'false memory syndrome' in this book. Embraci…
