THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY
Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham
St. Martin's Press, 1996
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Readers of this book should understand the scientific support arguing against repressed and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.
Despite decades of research, there is no controlled scientific support for the idea that memories of trauma are routinely banished into the unconscious and then reliably recovered years later. Loftus refutes the claim of recovered memory therapists that one half of all women were abused in childhood and that one half of these survivors suffer from completely repressed memory.
Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has published widely in memory and in forensic psychology. She is the author of 12 books, including COGNITIVE PROCESSES, EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY, and HUMAN MEMORY: THE PROCESSING OF LEARNING.
Katherine Ketcham is co-author, with Elizabeth Loftus, of WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE: THE ACCOUSED, THE EYEWITNESS, AND THE EXPERT WHO PUTS MEMORY ON TRIAL, and author of UNDER THE INFLUENCE and SPIRITUALITY OF IMPERFECTION.
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