Recovered Memories and False Memories
- Oxford University Press, 1997
- 308
The volume offers a unique and timely survey of the theories of memory recovery, and how false memories may be created. Introduction: What are Memories, The Troublesome Unknowns about Trauma and Recovered Memories, Events Spoken and Unspoken: Implications of Language and Memory Development for the Recovered Memory Debate, The Recovered Memories Debate: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, Suffering from Reminiscences: Exhumed Memory and Implicit Memory and the Return of the Repressed, Recovery of True and False Memories: Paradoxical Effects of Repeated Testing, Past and Present: Recovered Memories and False Memories, Reasoning about Repression: Inferences from Clinical and Experimental Data, Delayed Memories of Child Sexual Abuse: Critique of the Controversy and Clinical Guidelines, Remembering and Forgetting Traumatic Experiences: A Matter of Survival, Taking the Middle Line: Can We Accommodate both Fabricated and Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse?, Index.