Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-362) and index.
Contents:
The "false memory" debate -- The process of remembering : a psychology of memory -- Memory and experience -- Wounding and memory -- The forgotten difference: ordinary memory versus traumatic memory -- A brief history of child abuse -- How common is traumatic forgetting? -- Does denial mean "false memory syndrome"? -- Retractors and other "false" accusers: sorting out untrue from true memory -- Traumatic forgetting: repression, dissociation and denial -- Dissociation -- Denial -- Verifying and corroborating a memory -- Admission by the abuser or co - abuser -- Internal verification and corroboration of traumatic memory -- Projecting the pain -- The competent helping professional and the troubled helping professional -- Some guidelines for assisting with memories of trauma -- A memory - based suit against therapists by a family member -- Two similar lawsuits with opposite results -- The baby and the bathwater -- Memory and traumatic stress - part one -- Memory and traumatic stress - part two -- Recovery -- Remembering what happened -- Naming the mistreatment and abuse -- Memory and validation -- Spirituality and memory -- Appendixes. A - A note on memories and reports about sexual abuse of children -- B - Additional repressed memory guidelines, by T.F. Nagy, Ph.D. -- C - Overview of offender psychology and behavior -- D - Addendum to guidelines and legal aspects chapters (18, 19 and 20) -- E - Some potentially damaging suggestions that may be made about a possible history of child sexual abuse (complied from Yapko 1994) -- F - The process of offenders working through denial (from Laflen and Sturm 1994).
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