Trauma and Memory

Clinical and Legal Controversies

Paul S. Appelbaum, Lisa A. Uyehara, Mark R. Elin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

568 Seiten

1997
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-510065-5 (ISBN)

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This book is a guide to the controversies swirling around recovered memories of trauma, especially childhood sexual abuse. The contributors provide a road map to the research on memory, including ways in which it is affected by trauma. Therapeutic approaches to patients suffering the after effects of trauma are considered in detail.

The authenticity of memories of childhood sexual abuse has become one of the major social controversies of the 1990's. As persons who report histories of abuse have sought remedies in civil and criminal proceedings in the courts,the accuracy of their memories--particularly when they have been recalled after a period of time--has been subject to intense scrutiny. This volume brings together many of the leading participants in the debate. Beginning by defining opposing positions, the contributors offer a variety of perspectives on the nature of the memory, including reviews of some of the most exciting recent developments in this fast-moving area of investigation. Next, consideration is given to the impact of trauma on memory, both in adults and in children. With this framework in place, the authors then turn to an examination of the variety of treatment approaches available to help patients who have been victims of trauma and who are struggling with memories of those events. Finally, they address the legal dilemmas for patients, mental health professionals, and society as a whole that have arisen from the trauma and memory controversy. As a whole, this book provides an unparalleled examination of this important and intriguing issue.

Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., is the A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester. His previous books include Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change (OUP, 1994) and Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (OUP, 1987). Lisa A. Uyehara, M.D., formerly an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School, has a private practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Mark R. Elin, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School and is a neuropsychologist at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.

PART I. THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE DELAYED RECALL OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES ; 1. Some People Recover Memories of Childhood Trauma That Never Really Happened ; 2. The Argument for the Reality of the Delayed Recall of Trauma ; PART II. CURRENT CONCEPTS OF MEMORY ; 3. Neuroanatomical Correlates of the Effects of Stress on Memory: Relevance to the Validity of Memories of Childhood Abuse ; 4. Inaccuracy and Inaccessibility Memory Retrieval: Contributions from Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology ; 5. Psychoanalysis, Memory, and Trauma ; 6. The Nature and Development of Children's Event Memory ; 7. An Integrative Developmental Model for Trauma and Memory ; PART III. THE MEMORY OF TRAUMA ; 8. Memory and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ; 9. Traumatic Memories ; 10. Continuous Memory, Amnesia, and Delayed Recall of Childhood Trauma: A Clinical Typology ; 11. Traumatic Experiences: The Early Organization of Memory in Children and Adolescents ; PART IV. TRAUMA AND MEMORY: EVALUATION AND TREATMENT ; 12. Psychoanalysis, Reconstruction, and the Recovery of Memory ; 13. Psychodynamic Therapy for Patients with Early Childhood Trauma ; 14. Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy ; 15. Cognitive Therapy of Dissociative Identity Disorder ; 16. Memories of Trauma in the Treatment of Children ; 17. Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, and Memories of Childhood Abuse ; PART V. THE TRAUMA DEBATE AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM ; 18. Legal Rights of Trauma Victims ; 19. For Whom Does the Bell Toll? Repressed Memory and Challenges for the Law: Getting Beyond the Statute of Limitations ; 20. Ethical and Clinical Risk Management Principles in Recovered Memory Cases: Maintaining Therapist Neutrality ; 21. Child Victims in the Legal System ; PART VI. REFLECTIONS ON TRAUMA AND MEMORY ; 22. Reflections on Trauma and Memory

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.1997
Zusatzinfo	halftone, line drawing, tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	247 x 189 mm
Gewicht	998 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-19-510065-4 / 0195100654
ISBN-13	978-0-19-510065-5 / 9780195100655
Zustand	Neuware