Remembering our childhood: how memory betrays us
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1. Verfasser: Sabbagh, Karl (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: 'To remember for years'; Chapter 2: Childhood Amnesia; Chapter 3: How Do I Know Who I Am?; Chapter 4: Reconstruction; Chapter 5: Memory Wars Break Out; Chapter 6: Playing False; Chapter 7: The Limits of Belief; Chapter 8: Crimes of Therapy; Chapter 9: 'Believed-in Imaginings'; Chapter 10: Abuse of Truth; Chapter 11: Freyds and Feuds; Chapter 12: Truth or Consequences; Appendix; Notes; Index
How reliable is memory, especially of events very long ago? Science is discovering how memories can alter, or even be planted. In a climate of obsession with child abuse, leading questioning of children and claims of 'recovered memory' have led to the wrongful arrest of teachers and parents. The science of memory needs to guide the courtroom. - ;In this fascinating and sometimes disturbing book, the well-known writer Karl Sabbagh looks at psychologists' present understanding of the nature of memory, especially recollections of childhood, and how, in cases of so-called 'recovered memories', the
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