Memory Trauma Treatment and the Law or Havens

Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law

Author: Daniel P Brown

This book is designed to be a one-stop text for clinicians and experimentalists who wish to understand the workings of memory in and out of the therapeutic arena. In addition, it will guide attorneys and judges in litigating and resolving hundreds of cases now in the courts concerning memory and the use of hypnosis to recover memory. The authors critically review memory research, trauma treatment, and legal cases pertaining to the false memory controversy. They discuss current memory science and research with both children and adults, pointing out where findings are and are not generalizable to trauma memories recovered in psychotherapy. This is an essential reference on memory for all clinicians, researchers, attorneys, and judges.

Table of Contents:

	About the Authors
	Acknowledgments
1	The False Memory Debate	1
2	The Contours of the False Memory Controversy	21
3	The Nature of Memory	66
4	Laboratory Simulation Studies on Memory for Negative Emotional Events	99
5	Personal Memories	116
6	Memory for Events of Impact	140
7	Trauma Memory	154
8	Misinformation Suggestibility	212
9	Interrogatory Suggestion and Coercive Persuasion	252
10	Hypnosis and Memory: Analysis and Critique of Research	286
11	A Critical Evaluation of Research on Emotion and Memory	356
12	The False Logic of the False Memory Controversy and the Irrational Element in Scientific Research on Memory	382
13	Phase-Oriented Trauma Treatment	436
14	Trauma Treatment and the Standard of Care	498
15	Suing Therapists	524
16	Repressed Memory and the Law	578
17	Distinguishing between True and False Memories	613
18	Hypnosis and the Law	635
	Bibliography	675
	Name Index	739
	Subject Index	759

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Havens: Stories of True Community Healing

Author: Leonard A Jason

For good reasons, Americans are growing concerned about the cost of health care and housing. There are many reasons why people need care-the addiction of a teenage child or spouse, an elderly relative in need of nursing home care, a psychological disorder, or a chronic medical condition--but even moderately successful institutional solutions for these problems are often too costly to be truly helpful. The cost of healthcare is so high it can result in homelessness. Leonard Jason and Martin Perdoux show us a relatively low-cost and effective solution growing in neighborhoods across the country: true community. People are moving in together to meet each other's needs and, in the process, create a much higher quality of life than they would find in an institution. People living together in these healing communities include the elderly, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, and people suffering from mental illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, AIDS, or Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. These communities offer them a way to recover the caring, structure, direction, and respect that a strong family can provide. The authors of this work show us how communities created out of necessity by their members constitute a more sustained, natural means to healing.