Memory Quest: Trauma and the Search for Personal History (Norton Professional Books

by Elizabeth A. Waites

This book is about autobiographical memory and personal history, with a special focus on the impact of trauma on several levels of information-processing and memory organization. Controversies around memory, such as the issue of so-called "recovered memories" of abuse, are considered within a broad context that recognizes that accuracy of such memories is not an absolute. The final chapters deal specifically with the access and use of memories in psychotherapy.

Hardcover

First published November 17, 1996