Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Port de Bourgenay, France, June 1996
The controversy regarding cases in which people report "recovered memories" of childhood sexual abuse may well prove to be the most important issue in professional psy chology in the 1990s. Some have argued that such reports often reflect illusory beliefs in advertently created by suggestive forms of "memory work" in psychotherapy. This claim amounts to a charge of widespread malpractice, and publicity about it threatens the reputa tion of clinical psychology. From a culturaVhistorical point of view, this controversy con stitutes a crisis point in Western society's belated and still incomplete efforts to acknowledge and respond effectively to the shocking prevalence of child sexual abuse. "Responding effectively" entails both protecting children from abuse and avoiding false accusations. Some professionals who emphasise prevention of false accusations have de scribed the popularisation of therapeutic searches for suspected hi
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Primary Lectures.- Increasing Sensitivity.- An Integrated Approach to
Treating Adults Abused as Children, with Specific Reference to Self-Reported
Recovered Memories.- Accuracy of Adult Recollections of Early Childhood
Abuse.- Memory Issues in the Diagnosis of Unreported Trauma.- The Logical
Status of Case Histories.- Clinical and Experimental Approaches to
Understanding Repression.- Dispatch from the (UN)Civil Memory Wars.-
Childrens Reports of Pleasant and Unpleasant Events.- Relevance of
Neuroendocrine Alterations in PTSD to Memory-Related Impairments of Trauma
Survivors.- Recollection.- Anomalies of Autobiographical Memory.- Hypnosis,
Pseudomemories, and Clinical Guidelines.- Informed Clinical Practice and the
Standard of Care.- Brief Papers.- Gender and Recall of Child Sexual Abuse.- A
Cognitive Corroborative Case Study Approach for Investigating Discovered
Memories of Sexual Abuse.- Sexual Abuse Memories.- Reported Amnesia for
Childhood Abuse and Other Traumatic Events in Psychiatric Inpatients.- Why
Memory is a Red Herring in the Recovered (Traumatic) Memory Debate.-
Remembering Early Experiences during Childhood.- The Repeat and
Revictimisation of Children.- Seekers after Truth.- Information Processing in
Combat Veterans.- The Prediction of Accurate Recollections of Trauma.- Forms
of Memory Recovery among Adults in Therapy.- Trauma Memory and Alcohol
Abuse.- Implicit Memory, Interpersonality Amnesia, and Dissociative Identity
Disorder.- Trauma, Memory, and Catharsis.- The Social Construction of
Multiple Personality Disorder.- Legal Panel.- The Role of Legal Rules in
Recollections of Trauma.- Framing the Question of the Admissibility of Expert
Testimony about Recollections of Trauma in the United States.- Evidentiary
Standards in Sexual Abuse Cases inContinental European Legal Systems.-
Evidentiary Standards in Sexual Abuse Cases in Nordic Legal Systems.- The
Psychiatric Expert Witness.- Should We Question How We Question Children?.-
Reports of the Working Groups.- Agenda for Research.- Investigating
Alternative Accounts of Veridical and Non-Veridical Memories of Trauma.-
Professional Guidelines on Clinical Practice for Recovered Memory: A
Comparative Analysis.- Personal Perspectives on the Development of the
Concept of Sexual Trauma in France.- ASI Participants Questionnaire.- Reports
of the Working Groups.- Poster Session Abstracts.
