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Kelley, Charles, R Now I Remember, 1994
Knapp, Samuel;
Kotre, John White Gloves,
1996
Kelley, Charles, R
Now I Remember, 1994
Recovered memories of sexual abuse
Knapp, Samuel;
VanderCreek, Leon
Treating Patients with Memories of Abuse, 1997
Legal Risk Management
Reviews
This volume advises practitioners on therapeutic strategies and interventions
that help to heal these vulnerable patients while minimizing the risk of
ethical and legal violations. According to the authors of this volume, ethical
therapy is effective therapy. Patients claiming childhood sexual abuse are
among the most traumatized of any practitioner's clients, and psychotherapists
working with these patients face unique challenges. Some patients are
conflicted about what to believe or how to interpret their memories. This
volume begins with a presentation of the current knowledge base about memory
and the accuracy of recovered memories. The authors then provide a review of
ethical and legal challenges that have been made against psychotherapists -
both by patients and by the parents of patients - because therapists need to be
aware of the types of charges that may be made against them. The volume also
analyzes methods currently in use by therapists to aid in memory retrieval (e.g.,
body work, guided imagery) and comments on the extent to which these techniques
place therapists at risk for ethical or legal challenges. Therapeutic
techniques that have been shown to be both therapeutically sound and ethically
acceptable are highlighted throughout. The authors also provide straightforward
advice on documentation, language for note-taking, and consultation and
supervision practices. Written in easy-to-read nonlegalese, this volume is
essential reading for any practicing psychologists, social worker, or
psychiatrist who works with patients struggling with recovered memories of
abuse.
Kotre, John
White Gloves, 1996
How we create ourselves through memory
Reviews
From Booklist, June 1, 1995
Kotre examines in brief and nontechnical terms a variety of memory
mechanisms ranging from research findings on neural pathways and specialized
memory cells to speculations on repression, age regression, and past lives. He
uses simple concepts to explain such phenomena as deja vu and to challenge
unfounded beliefs. For example, to refute the idea that everything that happens
to an individual is stored in one's memory and is potentially accessible, he
points out that remembering where we parked at the mall is facilitated by
forgetting where we parked on previous trips. He further shows that what we
believe we accurately remember often has been reconstructed, as when an event
that initially evoked fear and anger is later recalled as a hilarious
adventure. Kotre also discusses infantile amnesia, memory maturation from the
generic to the thematic in the young and adolescent, and autobiographic and
memory changes in the second half of life, particularly in late adulthood.
Brenda Grazis Copyright© 1995, American
Library Association.
Synopsis
A detailed examination of the properties of human memory argues that memory
is a complex, changing process with which individuals can rewrite personal
histories and explains how the same memory can be different for many people.
Synopsis
Shedding new light on traditional concepts of personal memory, a revealing
study shows that it is not necessarily fixed and unchanging, and examines
repressed memory, memory of dreams, photographic memory, childhood memories,
and the significance of memories.
Reader, New York
Eloquent evocation of memory and its tasks, embedded in life
As the discipline of psychology struggles to emerge from its
artifice-inducingdecades of behaviorism, memory research does much of the heavy
lifting-- uniting laboratory rigor, theoretical sophistication, and humane
concerns with "qualitative" field work (that is, talking to real
people in ordinary ways). "White Gloves" presents the state of the
art quite well, in a literate, well-crafted style that sounds like one very
smart and wise person talking to others. The book sets current work on memory
in the context of the author's life, and the lives of many famous (and less
famous) characters from the professional literature.
For those who want an academic tone to their books on current science, this is
the wrong book--try Daniel Schacter's "Searching for Memory." For
those who find the close logic of (even the best) academic writing trying, but
who would like to know the state of the art, "White Gloves" is a
fine, moving choice.