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Unchained memories : true stories of traumatic memories, lost and found, Lenore Terr

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Can a long-forgotten memory of a horrible event suddenly resurface years later? Proponents of so-called false memory syndrome say it's impossible. Child psychiatrist Lenore Terr now offers an important book on the cutting edge of this hotly debated issue. How can we know if a memory is true or false? Seven spellbinding cases, some taken from Terr's own experience as an expert witness, shed light on why it is rare for a reclaimed memory to be wholly false. Here are unforgettable true stories of what happens when people remember what they've tried to forget - plus one case of genuine false memory. In the best detective-story fashion, using her insights as a psychiatrist and the latest research on the mind and brain, Lenore Terr helps us separate truth from fiction. Eileen Franklin's testimony convicted her father of raping and murdering her best friend twenty years earlier. Was she right? Movies and books are full of amnesia victims. Was Patricia Bartlett one, as she claimed - or was she just a drunk driver trying to get off the hook? Miss America of 1958 came from the perfect family, or so everyone thought - until she remembered her father's sexual abuse. Gary Baker dreaded being underwater, yet his hobby was diving. Then an image popped into his head - of his mother trying to drown him. A ten-year-old child accused her psychotherapists of Satanic abuse. Were these memories deliberately planted in her mind? Mystery writer James Ellroy remembers all but one detail of his mother's grisly murder - but that detail shows up in every book he writes. Ross Harriman struggled to remember the brother who died when Ross was four years old. Why was there this hole in his memory? The stories can be read in any order; each is complete in itself. But taken together they offer a wealth of information on the nature of memory. Terr explains the difference between splitting and dissociating, denial and displacement, the meaning of repression and fugue states, how the brain encodes memories and under what circumstances they return, why we remember some details about traumatic events and forget others, the difference between short-term and long-term memory, and much more. This enthralling book informs and entertains - and invites us to explore the meaning of our own remembrances, true and false
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eng
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Extent
xvi, 282 pages
Contents
  • Ringside Seats at an Old Murder
  • Expert Witness for the Prosecution
  • A Drunken Woman at the Side of the Road
  • The Silver at the Surface of the Water
  • The Two Miss Americas of 1958 and Her Sister
  • The Child Star's Tale
  • The Black Dahlia's Son
  • Searching for Corky
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9780465088232
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Unchained memories : true stories of traumatic memories, lost and found
Title
Unchained memories
Title remainder
true stories of traumatic memories, lost and found
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Lenore Terr
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Language
eng
Summary
Can a long-forgotten memory of a horrible event suddenly resurface years later? Proponents of so-called false memory syndrome say it's impossible. Child psychiatrist Lenore Terr now offers an important book on the cutting edge of this hotly debated issue. How can we know if a memory is true or false? Seven spellbinding cases, some taken from Terr's own experience as an expert witness, shed light on why it is rare for a reclaimed memory to be wholly false. Here are unforgettable true stories of what happens when people remember what they've tried to forget - plus one case of genuine false memory. In the best detective-story fashion, using her insights as a psychiatrist and the latest research on the mind and brain, Lenore Terr helps us separate truth from fiction. Eileen Franklin's testimony convicted her father of raping and murdering her best friend twenty years earlier. Was she right? Movies and books are full of amnesia victims. Was Patricia Bartlett one, as she claimed - or was she just a drunk driver trying to get off the hook? Miss America of 1958 came from the perfect family, or so everyone thought - until she remembered her father's sexual abuse. Gary Baker dreaded being underwater, yet his hobby was diving. Then an image popped into his head - of his mother trying to drown him. A ten-year-old child accused her psychotherapists of Satanic abuse. Were these memories deliberately planted in her mind? Mystery writer James Ellroy remembers all but one detail of his mother's grisly murder - but that detail shows up in every book he writes. Ross Harriman struggled to remember the brother who died when Ross was four years old. Why was there this hole in his memory? The stories can be read in any order; each is complete in itself. But taken together they offer a wealth of information on the nature of memory. Terr explains the difference between splitting and dissociating, denial and displacement, the meaning of repression and fugue states, how the brain encodes memories and under what circumstances they return, why we remember some details about traumatic events and forget others, the difference between short-term and long-term memory, and much more. This enthralling book informs and entertains - and invites us to explore the meaning of our own remembrances, true and false
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1936-
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Terr, Lenore
Index
index present
LC call number
RC552.P67
LC item number
T47 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 1994 D-922
  • WM 173.7
NLM item number
T323u 1994
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Amnesia
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Psychic trauma
  • Recollection (Psychology)
  • Amnesia
  • Memory
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Amnesia
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Psychic trauma
  • Recollection (Psychology)
  • Trauma's (psychologie)
  • Herinnering
  • Geheugenverlies
  • amnésie
  • mémoire
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Unchained memories : true stories of traumatic memories, lost and found, Lenore Terr
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-273) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ringside Seats at an Old Murder -- Expert Witness for the Prosecution -- A Drunken Woman at the Side of the Road -- The Silver at the Surface of the Water -- The Two Miss Americas of 1958 and Her Sister -- The Child Star's Tale -- The Black Dahlia's Son -- Searching for Corky
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xvi, 282 pages
Isbn
9780465088232
Lccn
93040371
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)29428672
  • (OCoLC)ocm29428672
Label
Unchained memories : true stories of traumatic memories, lost and found, Lenore Terr
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-273) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ringside Seats at an Old Murder -- Expert Witness for the Prosecution -- A Drunken Woman at the Side of the Road -- The Silver at the Surface of the Water -- The Two Miss Americas of 1958 and Her Sister -- The Child Star's Tale -- The Black Dahlia's Son -- Searching for Corky
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xvi, 282 pages
Isbn
9780465088232
Lccn
93040371
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)29428672
  • (OCoLC)ocm29428672

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