Decipher 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
perceptual experiments shed light on the cognitive uses of
dissociation, the encoding and recall of memory, and the effects of
early trauma on subsequent information processing. Trauma and
Cognitive Science offers solid information on the most challenging
questions in this field: How is memory encoded, stored, and
retrieved? How is it forgotten? How does trauma influence these
processes? What kinds of memories can be created by suggestion?
What physical changes take place in the brain under traumatic
stress? How is consciousness disturbed during and after trauma?
What are the ethical, clinical, and societal implications of
traumatic stress studies? How can people suffering from traumatic
memories be healed? Trauma and Cognitive Science also offers an
astonishing array of true case studies, including the story of an
adult woman who was raped, went to court, and saw her rapist
convicted--and then forgot the whole traumatic episode. The
independently corroborated accounts of recovered memories and the
carefully designed research studies on multiple modes and levels of
memory may offer the key to understanding how we remember and why
we forget. The results of these controlled scientific studies have
wide-ranging implications for abuse survivors, combat veterans,
rape victims, and people who have survived traumatic events from
earthquakes to car accidents. Written in clear, accessible prose,
Trauma and Cognitive Science belongs on the bookshelf of all mental
health professionals, researchers in the areas of traumatic stress
and child abuse, attorneys, judges, and survivors of abuse and
trauma.
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