Confabulations: Creating False Memories, Destroying Families

Confabulations: Creating False Memories, Destroying Families
ISBN-10
0897771443
ISBN-13
9780897771443
Series
Confabulations
Category
Psychology / Psychotherapy / General
Pages
335
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Social Issues Resources Series
Authors
Eleanor C. Goldstein, Kevin Farmer

Description

CONFABULATIONS: CREATING FALSE MEMORIES -- DESTROYING FAMILIES is the first book to describe the most shocking mental health issue of our times - False Memory Syndrome! Are "decades delayed discoveries" based on repressed memories accurate? Are those memories real enough for accusations of sexual abuse, including incest & Satanism, to be accepted without challenge? Should parents be labeled as "perpetrators" without having an opportunity to defend themselves? Many therapists seem to think so. Many journalists & talk-show hosts seem to think so. Experts on memory & the mind don't always think so. They know that memory is not infallible. The older the memory, the more fragmented it becomes. Memory can become contaminated by later events & by what a person sees, hears or reads. Childhood memories, especially repressed memories, are often confabulations - a mixture of fact & fantasy. An epidemic is emerging in which adult children are accusing their parents of horrendous crimes based on repressed memories recalled in therapy. CONFABULATIONS includes 20 case histories, interviews with therapists, & analyses of the origins of the problem. Distributed by: Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Brodart & The Distributors. Order direct from the publisher: SIRS Books, P.O. Box 2348, Boca Raton, FL 33427-2348. Phone: (800) 232-7477.

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