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Freud and false memory syndrome / Phil Mollon.
Van Pelt Library RC455.2.F35 M655 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mollon, Phil.
- Series:
- Postmodern encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
- Freud, Sigmund.
- False memory syndrome.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Repression, Psychology.
- Child Abuse, Sexual.
- Freudian Theory.
- Medical Subjects:
- Repression, Psychology.
- Child Abuse, Sexual.
- Freudian Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 76 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Duxford, Cambridge, UK : Icon Books ; New York : Totem Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- Since about 1992, an astonishingly fierce scientific, professional and legal controversy has arisen around the allegation that psychotherapists may sometimes have fostered false memories of childhood sexual abuse. Some have blamed Freud for this, arguing that he sowed the seeds of 'false memory syndrome' 100 years ago. He has been accused by some critics of abandoning, out of professional cowardice, his original recognition of the prevalence of sexual abuse amongst his patients, substituting his theory of childhood sexuality and the Oedipus complex, and by others of fabricating and implanting false memories in his patients' minds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-76).
- ISBN:
- 1840461330
- OCLC:
- 43342245
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