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The Myth of Repressed Memory
By Elizabeth Loftus and Katherin Ketcham
Our Price: $13.95
Our Item Code: repressed
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290 Pages, Cover Size: 6 x 9 inches
St. Martin's Press
Related listings: Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: Self-Help Books
and Alien Abduction
and UFO Skeptics
Date: 1994
ISBN: 0-312-14123-8
Added to Catalog: 11/25/97
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
"False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse."
While not dealing specifically with UFO beliefs,
this book can be taken as a skeptical work regarding
alien abduction claims.
It attacks the reliability of "reconstructed" memories,
those that have supposedly been repressed by traumatic
experiences and recovered years later during hypnosis
or psychotherapy.
The authors argue that what we regard as solid memories
are in fact highly fluid, and traumatic memories
can be as easily confabulated as recovered.
The many case studies contained herein focus on
false allegations of sexual abuse that have destroyed many families.
False memories often serve a protective function, and
if you believe that a memory can be repressed and later
recovered, then you also have to accept that a memory
can be unconsciously created or distorted to serve an
emotional need.
Was a person abducted by aliens as he now "remembers," or
was the memory "created" by his emotional system to help
him avoid a more painful reality.
As longtime academic researchers into the function of memory,
the authors are well-versed on its weaknesses, and
argue eloquently that no "repressed
memory" can be trusted in isolation.
Includes index and references.
-- Glenn Campbell
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From the Book Cover
"Astute, scientifically informed, and compassionate towards the
movement's casualties."
-- The New York Review of Books
"The descriptions . . . of the 'therapeutic' practices by which
memories are recovered are a frightening indictment of at least
some members of the burgeoning therapy industry...."
-- The New
York Times Book Review
"[A] thoughtful, scholarly book . . . concerned with exposing the
damage caused by, and the falsity of, the practice of
recovered-memory therapy."
-- The Washington Post Book World
"The best book I have found on these phenomena."
-- Boston Book
Review
"Loftus's moving descriptions of families shattered by recovered
memories make for gripping reading...."
-- Scientific American
"Loftus has been an inventive and prolific investigator of
memory's foibles.... This book shows the false side of recovered
memories, and their horrifying consequences.... "
-- The New
England Journal of Medicine
"This eye-opening book makes a compelling argument for caution."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Loftus argues that an incest recovery
culture . . . has induced thousands, perhaps hundreds of
thousands, of women to falsely accuse their parents.
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A reasonable and restrained approach to a touchy subject."
-- Kirkus Reviews
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