Are horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim's memory? Or
does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from
consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most
controversial issue in psychology today, spilling out of consulting
rooms and laboratories to capture headlines, rupture families,
provoke legislative change, and influence criminal trials and civil
suits. This book, by a clinician who is also a laboratory
researcher, is the first comprehensive, balanced analysis of the
clinical and scientific evidence bearing on this issue--and the
first to provide definitive answers to the urgent questions at the
heart of the controversy.
Synthesizing clinical case reports and the vast research
literature on the effects of stress, suggestion, and trauma on
memory, Richard McNally arrives at significant conclusions, first
and foremost that traumatic experiences are indeed unforgettable.
Though people sometimes do not think about disturbing experiences
for long periods of time, traumatic events rarely slip from
awareness for very long; furthermore, McNally reminds us, failure
to think about traumas--such as early sexual abuse--must not be
confused with amnesia or an inability to remember them. In fact,
the evidence for repressed memories of trauma--or even for
repression at all--is surprisingly weak.
A magisterial work of scholarship, panoramic in scope and
nonpartisan throughout, this unfailingly lucid work will prove
indispensable to anyone seeking to understand how people remember
trauma.
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