The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse - Rilegato

Loftus, Elizabeth; Ketcham, Katherine

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ISBN 10: 0312114540 ISBN 13: 9780312114541

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Across the country, families are being torn apart and people sent to prison, all because of a trendy new psychological phenomenon: recovered memory. According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cases of people who suddenly claim to have "recovered" memories of everything from child abuse to murder.
Dr. Loftus reveals that despite decades of research, there is absolutely no controlled scientific support for the idea that memories of trauma are routinely banished into the unconscious and then reliably recovered years later.

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Book by Loftus Elizabeth Ketcham Katherine

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312114540
• ISBN 13: 9780312114541
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1