Description
Book SynopsisDecipher the complex interplay of neurology, psychology, trauma, and memory!In the midst of the controversies over how repressed, false, and recovered memories should be interpreted, Trauma and Cognitive Science presents reliable original research instead of rhetoric. This landmark volume examines the way different traumas influence memory, information processing, and suggestibility. The research provides testable theories on why people forget some kinds of childhood abuse and other traumas. It bridges the cognitive science and clinical approaches to traumatic stress studies.Written by the foremost researchers in the field, including Bessel van der Kolk and Jennifer Freyd, these scientific evaluations of the way traumatic memories are processed offer powerful new perspectives on the interplay of biology and psychology. Trauma and Cognitive Science discusses a range of traumas, including combat, child abuse, and sexual assault across the lifespan. Fascinating percept
Table of ContentsContents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword: Entering the Secret Garden: The Interface of Cognitive Neuroscience and Trauma Research
- The Meeting of Trauma and Cognitive Science: Facing Challenges and Creating Opportunities at the Crossroads
- Exploring the Nature of Traumatic Memory: Combining Clinical Knowledge with Laboratory Methods
- Retrieving, Assessing, and Classifying Traumatic Memories: A Preliminary Report on Three Case Studies of a New Standardized Method
- A Cognitive Analysis of the Role of Suggestibility in Explaining Memories for Abuse
- The Role of the Self in False Memory Creation
- Discovering Memories of Abuse in the Light of Meta-Awareness
- Perspectives on Memory for Trauma and Cognitive Processes Associated with Dissociative Tendencies
- A Biological Model for Delayed Recall of Childhood Abuse
- Active Forgetting: Evidence for Functional Inhibition as a Source of Memory Failure
- Experiential Avoidance and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Cognitive Mediational Model of Rape Recovery
- Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Childhood Abuse Survivors
- A Preliminary Report Comparing Trauma-Focused and Present-Focused Group Therapy Against a Wait-Listed Condition Among Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors with PTSD
- Dialogue Between Speakers and Attendees at the 1998 Meeting on Trauma and Cognitive Science: Questions and Answers About Traumatic Memory
- Finding a Secret Garden in Trauma Research
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
