Remembering TraumaAre horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim’s memory? Or does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most controversial issue in psychology today, spilling out of consulting rooms and laboratories to capture headlines, rupture families, provoke legislative change, and influence criminal trials and civil suits. This book, by a clinician who is also a laboratory researcher, is the first comprehensive, balanced analysis of the clinical and scientific evidence bearing on this issue—and the first to provide definitive answers to the urgent questions at the heart of the controversy. |
Contents
The Politics of Trauma | 1 |
How We Remember | 27 |
What Is Psychological Trauma? | 78 |
Memory for Trauma | 105 |
Mechanisms of Traumatic Memory | 125 |
Theories of Repression and Dissociation | 159 |
Traumatic Amnesia | 186 |
False Memories of Trauma | 229 |
A View from the Laboratory | 260 |
Controversies on the Horizon | 275 |
Notes | 287 |
Works Cited | 313 |
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