Return of the Furies : An Investigation Into Recovered Memory Therapy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0812692721
ISBN-13
9780812692723
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 18th, 1999
Print length
419 Pages
Weight
609 grams
Product Classification:
Cognition & cognitive psychologyPsychotherapy
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Are the supposed memories recovered in therapy genuine? There is no scientific evidence that memories can be repressed, but plenty that false ones can be created. The authors offer a critical and comprehensive analysis of recovered memory therapy in all its ignorance, irrationality and cruelty.
Recovered memory therapy, which has become a rapidly-growing industry in the past ten years, is based on the controversial theory that adults often suffer emotional problems because of forgotten childhood traumas. People who experience everyday difficulties like anxiety of overeating are now often told by therapists that the root of their trouble is a ''repressed memory'' of abuse in childhood. The cure is to bring back the memory - a process that usually takes many months - and then publicly humiliate the alleged perpetrators of the abuse, most often the victim''s parents. But are the supposed memories recovered in therapy genuine? Or are they concocted by therapists and clients in the course of therapy? Attempts to find independent corroboration of recovered memories have drawn a blank. Contrary to folklore, there is not a shred of scientific evidence for the notion that a memory can be repressed, and there is plenty of evidence that false memories can be created.
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