Title: Remembering, repeating, and working through childhood trauma
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Transference (Psychology), Multiple personality, False memory syndrome, Child abuse, Methods, Psychotherapist and patient, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Repression, Recovered memory, Adult child abuse victims, Multiple-Personality Disorder, Countertransference (Psychology), Therapy, Professional-Patient Relations, Psychology Repression, Psychology Transference, Dissociative Identity Disorder
LC classification: RC569.5.C55 H43 1994