True and False Recovered Memories Toward a Reconciliation of the Debate /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Belli, Robert F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 58
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.

Beginning in the 1990s, the contentious “memory wars” divided psychologists into two schools of thought: that adults’ recovered memories of childhood abuse were generally true, or that they were generally not, calling theories, therapies, professional ethics, and survivor credibility into question....

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Cognitive Neuroscience of True and False Memories
• Searching for Repressed Memory
• Motivated Forgetting and Misremembering
• Cognitive Underpinnings of Recovered Memories of Childhood Abuse
• A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Recovered Memory Experiences.