The Repressed Memory Epidemic How It Happened and What We Need to Learn from It /

• Main Author: Pendergrast, Mark (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Neuropsychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Applied Psychology.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of repressed memories. It provides a history and context that documents key events that have had an effect on the way that modern psychology and psychotherapy have developed. Chapters provide an overview of how human memory functions and works...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Origins: How a Dangerous Psychological Fad Began
• Chapter 2.  Memory Stash: The Brain Is Not a Mental Filing Cabinet
• Chapter 3. Alice in Fantasyland: How to Create False Memories
• Chapter 4. Multiple Personalities and Satanic Cults
• Chapter 5. The Day Care Sex Panic
• Chapter 6. An Historical Foray: From Witch Craze to Freud
• Chapter 7. The Cultural Landscape
• Chapter 8. The Survivor Sect: Another Kind of Conversion Disorder
• Chapter 9. The Scope of the Problem and Its Aftermath
• Chapter 10. The Return of the Repressed and What to Do About It
• Appendix A: Reality Check
• Appendix B: The Oral History Chapters. .