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Rational views of the available evidence [surrounding recovered memory] are rather uncommon...That, in addition to the intrinsic merit of the book, is what makes Jennifer Freyd's "Betrayal Trauma", such an exceptional document and raises it to the level of a landmark contribution. "Betrayal Trauma" is a feat of superb scholarship and remarkable objectivity and integrity...Adroitly employing everyday experiences to make potentially complex processes and concepts immediately accessible, Freyd reviews the literature on both the distortion of memory and the preservation of memory with admirable evenhandedness...Freyd's own theory is simple and elegant...For the scholar, the mental health professional, and the intelligent lay reader, Freyd's rich and rewarding work offers powerful testimony that a scholar with integrity and compassionate rationality can withstand the onslaught of impassioned hysteria and redirect a field's attention to its basic concerns. She has set a new standard for responsible scholarship in this frequently troubled and troublesome area of study. Let us hope her example proves influential. -- Dr. Richard P. Kluft "Pennsylvania Gazette"
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How can someone forget an event as traumatic as sexual abuse in childhood? This book examines the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival. What Freyd describes, with real-life examples, is "betrayal trauma", a blockage of information that would otherwise interfere with one's ability to function within an essential relationship - that of parent and dependent child, for instance. "Betrayal Trauma" also explores the ubiquity of not knowing or not remembering as a human response to betrayal - even on the small scale of a boss using a patronizing voice or a spouse flirting with a friend. Freyd suggests that knowledge is multilayered, and that we can know and not know at once - and that implicit memory may surface in oblique ways: as specific phobias, learned behaviours, an image of oneself as a "bad boy" or "bad girl".
Rational views of the available evidence [surrounding recovered memory] are rather uncommon...That, in addition to the intrinsic merit of the book, is what makes Jennifer Freyd's "Betrayal Trauma", such an exceptional document and raises it to the level of a landmark contribution. "Betrayal Trauma" is a feat of superb scholarship and remarkable objectivity and integrity...Adroitly employing everyday experiences to make potentially complex processes and concepts immediately accessible, Freyd reviews the literature on both the distortion of memory and the preservation of memory with admirable evenhandedness...Freyd's own theory is simple and elegant...For the scholar, the mental health professional, and the intelligent lay reader, Freyd's rich and rewarding work offers powerful testimony that a scholar with integrity and compassionate rationality can withstand the onslaught of impassioned hysteria and redirect a field's attention to its basic concerns. She has set a new standard for responsible scholarship in this frequently troubled and troublesome area of study. Let us hope her example proves influential. -- Dr. Richard P. Kluft "Pennsylvania Gazette"
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How can someone forget an event as traumatic as sexual abuse in childhood? This book examines the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival. What Freyd describes, with real-life examples, is "betrayal trauma", a blockage of information that would otherwise interfere with one's ability to function within an essential relationship - that of parent and dependent child, for instance. "Betrayal Trauma" also explores the ubiquity of not knowing or not remembering as a human response to betrayal - even on the small scale of a boss using a patronizing voice or a spouse flirting with a friend. Freyd suggests that knowledge is multilayered, and that we can know and not know at once - and that implicit memory may surface in oblique ways: as specific phobias, learned behaviours, an image of oneself as a "bad boy" or "bad girl".
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