Memory matters : contexts for understanding sexual abuse recollections / edited by Janice Haaken and Paula Reavey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haaken, Jan.

Reavey, Paula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recovered memory.

Child sexual abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Sussex ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual violations in their female clients, a wave of alarmed critics countered that therapists were implanting the very memories they were discovering. In looking back at this volatile and heated controversy, Memory Matters takes up disturbing questions that linger concerning memory, sexuality, and ch

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Why memory still matters: Disturbing recollections; Section 1 Looking back on the recovered memory debate: Claims and counter-claims; 2 On changing one's mind twice: The strange credibility of retracting recovered memories; 3 Reconstructing Bartlett and revisiting retractions of contested claims of abuse; 4 Speaking up against justice: Credibility, suggestibility and children's memory on trial; 5 Transformations of public and private knowledge: Audience reception, feminism and the experience of childhood sexual abuse

6 'Alternative memories' and the construction of a sexual abuse narrativeSection 2 Widening the lens: Cultural contexts for remembering child sexual abuse; 7 The spaces of memory: Rethinking agency through materiality; 8 'Truth', memory and narrative in memoirs of child sexual abuse; 9 Memory, sexual abuse and the politics of learning disability; 10 Memory, truth, and the search for an authentic past; 11 Therapy as memory-work: Dilemmas of discovery, recovery and construction; 12 Transformative remembering: Feminism, psychoanalysis, and recollections of abuse; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-25600-4

1-135-25601-2

1-282-23435-8

9786612234354

0-203-87363-7

9780203873632

OCLC:

459794123