Trauma and Memory

This book is a comprehensive, scholarly, and balanced guide to the controversies swirling around recovered memories of trauma, especially childhood sexual abuse. The contributors provide a road map to the exciting new research on memory, including ways in which it is affected by trauma. Therapeutic approaches to patients suffering the after effects of trauma are considered in detail Finally, the book addresses how these clinical controversies have made their way into the courts, and considers what our society's responses should be.