Remembering, repeating, and working through childhood trauma
Subtitle: the psychodynamics of recovered memories, multiple personality, ritual abuse, incest, molest, and abduction
By: Lawrence E. Hedges.
Publisher: J. Aronson
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Adult child abuse victims.; False memory syndrome.; Recovered memory.; Psychotherapist and patient.; Transference (Psychology); Countertransference (Psychology); Multiple personality.; Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods.; Child abuse.; Repression.; Transference (Psychology); Multiple-Personality Disorder -- therapy.; Professional-Patient Relations.
Description: Accusations of child abuse based on memories apparently recovered in psychotherapy, support groups, and similar settings have spurred a national debate. The question most frequently asked is, do these recovered memories refer to real events? This is the wrong question to ask, says Lawrence Hedges, the author of this important new work. What is vital is to understand the psychodynamic roots of remembered abuse.

Drawing on a century of psychoanalytic study of memory and the way it operates in therapy, Hedges clarifies the misunderstandings and misinformation that currently exist in the media and popular press regarding memory and the nature of the psychotherapeutic process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index.