White Gloves: How We Create Ourselves Through MemoryWritten with "exceptional clarity and insight" (New York Times), and ranging widely over case studies, scientific knowledge about memory, and personal experience, as well as recent events and trial involving conflicting or "repressed" memories, Kotre's book gives us a "fascinating and often moving account of the part which both real and false memories play in our lives" (Anthony Storr). |
Contents
The White Gloves | 1 |
The Whereabouts of Memory | 9 |
Is Everything In There? | 27 |
Like a River | 59 |
The Autobiographical Memory System | 85 |
Memory in the Young | 121 |
Memory in the Mature | 161 |
In the Beginning | 189 |
Memory Inspirited | 217 |
The Tackle Box | 243 |
Notes | 247 |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers Jon Prosser No preview available - 1998 |
A Call to Purpose: Mission-centered Change in Three Liberal Arts Colleges Matthew Hartley Limited preview - 2002 |