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The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (Hardcover)

by Elizabeth Loftus (Author), Katherine Ketcham (Author)

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Hardcover: 290 pages
Publisher: St Martins Pr (1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0312114540
ISBN-13: 978-0312114541
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.8 x 2.5 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars ghosts from the past, 18 Mar 1998

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This review is from: The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (Paperback)

Let by-gones be by-gones, we use to say. But when the ghosts from the past come to hunt us, should we ignore them? Elisabeth Loftus, a well-known researcher of psychology, writes about the memory and repression. We do not know how the memory works exactly. But it is sure to be found that it is no file cabinet where our memory is neatly stored. Our memory comes to us in a deformed way. For a certain time it has been a habit of therapists to retrieve certain memories, such as those of sexual abuse. Loftus brings forward forward that treatments of that kind, with a duration of years and of an intensive nature, may lead to a deteriorisation of the sickness or unjustified accusiations against relatives (or others). Loftus doubts the existence of repression. Victims of sexual abuse would have developed a certain mechanism to cope with the constant stress that was brougt about by the abuse. They would, to protect themselves, have put these memoris in an inaccessible part of their memory. Only if in therapeutic sessions they went on to retrieve memories, they could reproduce these hidden memories accurately. Loftus does not believe in the accuracy of the retrieved material. She has managed under lab conditions to implant false memories into human subjects, c.q. the childhood memory of being lost in a mall. The adult subjects seemed to consider the false memory as true. In the US this idea led to a real controversy between therapists and sceptics, who like loftus beleive that even if a person considers a memory as true - with al the details - it can be untrue. Loftus emphasizes that she obviously has the utmost respect for the victims. Does our memory play a game with us, or is our memory just a viedeoplayer with tapes that have no labels? Frank van de Wiel Breda

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5.0 out of 5 stars Important book. A must-read., 6 Oct 1997

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This review is from: The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (Paperback)

This book is a much-needed cry for sanity, much like Sagan's _The Demon-Haunted World_. The author, Elizabeth Loftus, is a well-known and well-respected psychologist who specializes in eyewitness memory; anybody who has taken a Gen Psych course should recognize her name.

As a budding psychologist, I found Loftus's comments on the therapeutic community both insightful and well-directed. Her arguments are powerful and difficult to deny; she convinced me shortly after the first few chapters.

Sexual abuse is a problem. A big one. But attempting to root out totally unconfirmed instances of sexual abuse is, as well. Loftus tries to walk a line between compassion for people who have truly been abused and those who believe they have, and scientific accuracy.

Her sharpest knives are reserved for the therapists. The tools of therapy used to "recover" abuse memories which have no corroborating evidence are the same as those used to "uncover" reports of alien abduction, past lives, infant memories, and ritual cult torture. All the above are truly unlikely, so why would memories recovered using this method about abuse be any more accurate than memories about big-eyed aliens?

All in all, this book does a marvelous job in presenting its points and should be a must-read for any serious student of psychology. It shows what a fragile thing memory really is; a lesson we all need to learn.

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