Memory matters contexts for understanding sexual abuse recollections

This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual violati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Haaken, Janice, 1947- (-), Reavey, Paula
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Sussex ; New York, NY : Routledge 2010.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798362106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Why memory still matters: Disturbing recollections; Section 1 Looking back on the recovered memory debate: Claims and counter-claims; 2 On changing one's mind twice: The strange credibility of retracting recovered memories; 3 Reconstructing Bartlett and revisiting retractions of contested claims of abuse; 4 Speaking up against justice: Credibility, suggestibility and children's memory on trial; 5 Transformations of public and private knowledge: Audience reception, feminism and the experience of childhood sexual abuse
  • 6 'Alternative memories' and the construction of a sexual abuse narrativeSection 2 Widening the lens: Cultural contexts for remembering child sexual abuse; 7 The spaces of memory: Rethinking agency through materiality; 8 'Truth', memory and narrative in memoirs of child sexual abuse; 9 Memory, sexual abuse and the politics of learning disability; 10 Memory, truth, and the search for an authentic past; 11 Therapy as memory-work: Dilemmas of discovery, recovery and construction; 12 Transformative remembering: Feminism, psychoanalysis, and recollections of abuse; Index