Trauma and Memory

Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., is the A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester. His previous books include Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change (OUP, 1994) and Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (OUP, 1987). Lisa A. Uyehara, M.D., formerly an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School, has a private practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Mark R. Elin, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School and is a neuropsychologist at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.

PART I. THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE DELAYED RECALL OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES ; 1. Some People Recover Memories of Childhood Trauma That Never Really Happened ; 2. The Argument for the Reality of the Delayed Recall of Trauma ; PART II. CURRENT CONCEPTS OF MEMORY ; 3. Neuroanatomical Correlates of the Effects of Stress on Memory: Relevance to the Validity of Memories of Childhood Abuse ; 4. Inaccuracy and Inaccessibility Memory Retrieval: Contributions from Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology ; 5. Psychoanalysis, Memory, and Trauma ; 6. The Nature and Development of Children's Event Memory ; 7. An Integrative Developmental Model for Trauma and Memory ; PART III. THE MEMORY OF TRAUMA ; 8. Memory and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ; 9. Traumatic Memories ; 10. Continuous Memory, Amnesia, and Delayed Recall of Childhood Trauma: A Clinical Typology ; 11. Traumatic Experiences: The Early Organization of Memory in Children and Adolescents ; PART IV. TRAUMA AND MEMORY: EVALUATION AND TREATMENT ; 12. Psychoanalysis, Reconstruction, and the Recovery of Memory ; 13. Psychodynamic Therapy for Patients with Early Childhood Trauma ; 14. Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy ; 15. Cognitive Therapy of Dissociative Identity Disorder ; 16. Memories of Trauma in the Treatment of Children ; 17. Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, and Memories of Childhood Abuse ; PART V. THE TRAUMA DEBATE AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM ; 18. Legal Rights of Trauma Victims ; 19. For Whom Does the Bell Toll? Repressed Memory and Challenges for the Law: Getting Beyond the Statute of Limitations ; 20. Ethical and Clinical Risk Management Principles in Recovered Memory Cases: Maintaining Therapist Neutrality ; 21. Child Victims in the Legal System ; PART VI. REFLECTIONS ON TRAUMA AND MEMORY ; 22. Reflections on Trauma and Memory