Memory in Dispute

233 Pages·1998·9.913 MB·English

by  Valerie Sinason

MEMORY
IN DISPUTE

MEMORY
IN DISPUTE
edited by
Valerie Sinason
Foreword by
Peter Fonagy
London
KARNAC BOOKS
First published in 1998 by
H. Kamac (Books) Ltd.
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London SW7 4QY
Copyright 8 1998 Valerie Sinason
Foreword 0 1998 Peter FOM~YIn; troduction 8 1998 Valerie Sinason; chapter
1 0 1998 Gwen Adshead; chapter 2 Q 1998 Amon Bentovim; chapter 3 0
1998 Ann Scott; chapter 4 0 1998 Brett Kahr; chapter 5 8 1998 Susie Mach;
chapter 6 0 1998 Jennifer Johns;c hapter 7 8 1998 Marjorie Orr; chapter 8 8
1998 Leslie Ironside; chapter 9 0 1998 Steven Rose; chapter 10 8 1998 Phil
Mollon; chapter 11 0 1998 Ashley Conway; chapter 12 0 1998 R. D.
Hinshelwood; chapter 13 0 1998 Mary Sue Moore; chapter 14 0 1998 Patrick
Casement
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Memory in dispute
1. False memory syndrome 2. Psychotherapy
I. Sinason, Valerie
616.8'914
ISBN 1-85575-122-4
Edited, designed, and produced by Communication Crafts
PMkd in Great Britain by BPC Wheatom Ltd, Exeter
1098 76543 2 1
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ix
FOREWORD
Peter Fonagy xiii
Introduction
Valerie Sinason 1
CHAPTER ONE
Hying by twilight:
when adults recover memories of abuse in childhood
Gwen Adshead 17
C W RTW O
“Children are liars aren’t they?”-
an exploration of denial processes in child abuse
Amon Bentwim 28
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CHAPTER THREE
Trauma, skin: memory, speech
Ann Scott 42
CHAPTER FOUR
The psychoanalytic concept of repression:
historical and empirical perspectives
Brett Kahr 51
CHAPTER FIVE
False memory syndrome
Susie Orbach 61
CHAFTER SIX
“What if I should die?”
Iennifer Iohns 72
CHAPTER SEVEN
False memory syndrome movements:
the origins and the promoters
Marjorie Orr 79
CHAPTER EIGHT
Serving two masters:
a patient, a therapist, and an allegation of sexual abuse
Leslie Ironside 95
CHAPTER NINE
Syndromitis, false or repressed memories?
Steven Rose 120
CHAPTER TEN
Terror in the consulting-room-
memory, trauma, and dissociation
Phil Mollon 126
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Recovered memories: shooting the messenger
Ashley Conway 143
CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER TWELVE
False memory syndrome-false therapy syndrome
R. D. Hinshelwood 149
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
How can we remember but be unable to recall?
The complex functions of multi-modular memory
May Sue Moore 166
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Objective fact and psychological truth:
some thoughts on “recovered memory”
Pa trick Casement 179
APPENDIX.’ USEFUL ADDRESSES
Daughters and Their Allies 185
Accuracy about Abuse 186
British False Memory Society 187
The False Memory Syndrome Foundation 187
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 189
INDEX 205

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
DR GWENA LJSHEAisD a Consultant Psychotherapist and Honorary
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychotherapy at Broadmoor, and was
previously Lecturer in Victimology at the Institute of Psychiatry.
She has worked as a psychotherapist with both victims and
perpetrators of sexual violence. She has researched women with
histories of abuse who become violent later in life and is currently
working on ethical issues raised by the false memory debate.
DR ARNONB ENTOVIMi s a leading Child and Family Psychiatrist,
Family Therapist and Adult Psychoanalyst. A founder member
of the Great Onnond Street Child Abuse team, he is currently
in independent practice with the London Child & Family Consul-
tation Service, as well as a forensic practice at the private
consultingrooms at Great Ormond Street. He is also continuing
research at the Institute of Child Health on the origins of abusive
behaviour.
PATRICKC ASEMENisT a Training Psychoanalyst in the British
Society. He is author of Learningfrom the Patient (1985 ) and Further
Learningfrom the Patient (1990).
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