Recovered Memories of Abuse: True or False?

by Peter Fonagy (Editor), Joseph Sandler (Editor)

Overview

These papers - from a conference with the same title - includes work by Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false memories), John Morton (outlining contemporary models of memory), and Valerie Sinason (on detecting abuse in child psychotherapy). The second half presents a psychoanalytic theory of false memory syndrome, by Joseph Sandler and Anne-Marie Sandler. Peter Fonagy and Mary Taget then offer a final overview.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780499512
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	12/31/1997
Series:	Psychoanalytic Monograph Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	514 KB

About the Author

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books.
Joseph Sandler qualified as a psychoanalyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was the Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis in the University of London and Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and in private practice in London. He was formerly the first Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Editor of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and the 'International Review of Psychoanalysis', and was President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.