Memory Quest: Trauma and the Search for Personal History (Norton Professional Books) [Hardcover]

Elizabeth A. Waites (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0393702340 | ISBN-13: 978-0393702347 | Publication Date: November 17, 1996

This book is about autobiographical memory and personal history, with a special focus on the impact of trauma on several levels of information-processing and memory organization.

Controversies around memory, such as the issue of so-called "recovered memories" of abuse, are considered within a broad context that recognizes that accuracy of such memories is not an absolute. The final chapters deal specifically with the access and use of memories in psychotherapy.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A welcome addition to...literature on trauma and memory and is likely to become a...valuable resource to...clinicians and academicians. (Contemporary Psychology, Linda W. Aubey)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 17, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393702340
• ISBN-13: 978-0393702347
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,388,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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