About the Book
How accurate is memory? Are there important differences in how and what we remember across the life span? What is the prevalence of "repressed memory" for traumatic events? What is the best way for therapists to elicit accurate memories from someone who may be a victim of incest?
This book addresses these and other compelling questions reflecting deep divisions in scientific opinion, professional practice, and legal decision making. Leading researchers and practitioners review the current literature, describe new findings and clinical techniques, and draw upon their extensive experience in the field to provide diverse perspectives on the place of memory in our lives and the impact upon memory of personal, interpersonal, and situational influences. This volume will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and students in clinical, cognitive, and social psychology, psychiatry, mental health law, and related fields.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Foundation. Kihlstrom, Exhumed Memory. Payne, Blackwell, Truth in Memory: Caveat Emptor. Hirt, McDonald, Markman, Expectancy Effects in Reconstructive Memory. Nash, Psychotherapy and Reports of Early Sexual Trauma: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Memory Errors. Part II: Early Autobiographical Memories.Malinoski, Lynn, Sivec, The Assessment, Reliability, and Determinants of Early Memory Reports. DuBreuil, Garry, Loftus, Tales from the Crib: Age Regression and the Creation of Unlikely Memories. Part III: Suggestion and Suggestibility in Children. Eisen, Goodman, Qin, Davis, Memory and Suggestibility in Maltreated Children: New Research Relevant to Evaluating Allegations of Abuse. Saywitz, Geiselman, Interviewing the Child Witness: Maximizing Completeness and Minimizing Error. Part IV: Memory and Psychotherapy: Research Findings and Clinical Considerations.McConkey, Barnier, Sheehan, Hypnosis and Pseudomemory: Understanding the Findings and Their Implications. Qin, Goodman, Bottoms, Shaver, Repressed Memories of Ritualistic and Religion-Related Child Abuse. Newman, Baumeister, Abducted by Aliens: Spurious Memories of Interplanetary Masochism. Kluft, Reflections on the Traumatic Memories of Dissociative Identity Disorder Patients. Laurence, Day, Gaston, From Memories of Abuse to the Abuse of Memories. Part V: False Memories in the Domains of the Law, Textbooks, and the Media. Heaton, Wilson, Memory, Media, and the Creation of Confusion. Arrigo, Pezdek, Textbook Models of Multiple Personality: Source, Bias, and Social Consequences. Underwager, Wakefield, Recovered Memories in the Courtroom. Part VI: A Way Forward. Bonnano, Keuler, Psychotherapy without Repressed Memory: A Parsimonious Alternative Based on Contemporary Memory Research. Gruneberg, Hermann, Practical Truths in Memory.
About the Author :
Steven Jay Lynn, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a former President of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychological Hypnosis; and a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology. Dr. Lynn is a consulting Editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and has published more than 175 articles on memory, trauma, dissociation, and hypnosis.
Kevin M. McConkey, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Head, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. A graduate of the University of Queensland, he has held academic positions in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Professor McConkey is a Fellow and has served as President of the Australian Psychological Society
Review :
It is difficult to imagine a more timely book. The diverse group of contributors provides revealing analyses of theoretical, clinical, and legal issues. This volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in understanding the nature of memory and its profound impact on our everyday lives. - Daniel L. Schacter, PhD, Professor and Chair of Psychology, Harvard University; author of Searching For Memory
Given all the heat in the recovered memory controversy, it is time for some light. This book focuses the light of recent as well as classic research on the question of how and when memory is truthful. The book's perspective is guided by a clear vision of the role of hypnotic phenomena in memory. These balanced and informative chapters bring together the work of the very best scientists and clinicians. - Daniel M. Wegner, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia; author of White Bears And Other Unwanted Thoughts
