True and False Recovered Memories: Toward a Reconciliation of the Debate

by Robert F. Belli

Book Overview

Beginning in the 1990s, the contentious "memory wars" divided psychologists into two schools of thought: that adults' recovered memories of childhood abuse were generally true, or that they were generally not, calling theories, therapies, professional ethics, and survivor credibility into question. More recently, findings from cognitive psychology and neuroimaging as well as new theoretical constructs are bringing balance, if not reconciliation, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489987134
• ISBN13: 9781489987136
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"