Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory.

This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology, law, psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA, along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause.

This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resisting disclosure.

Contents:

Introduction; 1: In conversation with Ross Cheit, Ashley Conway;

2: False Memory Syndrome Movement: The Origins and the Promoters, Marjorie Orr;

3: The Rocky Road to False Memories - Stories the Media Missed, Lynn Crook;

4: Re-examining the Lost-in-the-Mall Study: Were "false memories" created to promote a false defence? In conversation with Ruth Blizzard, Valerie Sinason;

5: Evaluating False Memory Research, Winja Buss;

6: The Abuse of Science to Silence the Abused, Ashley Conway;

7: False memory syndrome, Susie Orbach;

8: Trauma, skin: memory, speech, Ann Scott;

9: Sigmund Freud's Concept of Repression: Historical and Empirical Perspectives, Brett Kahr;

10: Terror in the consulting-room memory, trauma, and dissociation, Phil Mollon;

11: How can we remember but be unable to recall? The complex functions of multi-modular memory, Mary Sue Moore;

12: "What if I should die?", Jennifer Johns;

13: Finding a new narrative: Meaningful responses to 'false memory' disinformation., Mike Salter;

14: `Do No Harm'? Hearing and responding to victims and survivors, Khadija Rouf and Danny Taggart