Freyd,
J.J. & DePrince, A.P. (Eds.) (2001). Trauma
and Cognitive Science: A Meeting of Minds, Science, and Human Experience.
Published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment,
& Trauma and simultaneously as a book published by Haworth
Press.
A volume based on the Meeting on Trauma and Cognitive Science, held July 17-19, 1998, Eugene, Oregon. Volume available for purchase at Amazon.com. Hardback ISBN: Haworth Press; ISBN: 0789013738; Paperback ISBN: 0789013746
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| Decipher
the complex interplay of neurology, psychology, trauma, and memory! In the midst of the controversies over how repressed, false, and recovered memories should be interpreted, Trauma and Cognitive Science presents reliable original research instead of rhetoric. This landmark volume examines the way different traumas influence memory, information processing, and suggestibility. The research provides testable theories on why people forget some kinds of childhood abuse and other traumas. It bridges the cognitive science and clinical approaches to traumatic stress studies. Written by the foremost researchers in the field, including Bessel van der Kolk and Jennifer Freyd, these scientific evaluations of the way traumatic memories are processed offer powerful new perspectives on the interplay of biology and psychology. Trauma and Cognitive Science discusses a range of traumas, including combat, child abuse, and sexual assault across the lifespan. Fascinating perceptual experiments shed light on the cognitive uses of dissociation, the encoding and recall of memory, and the effects of early trauma on subsequent information processing. Trauma and Cognitive Science offers solid information on the most challenging questions in this field:
Written in clear, accessible prose, Trauma and Cognitive Science belongs on the bookshelf of all mental health professionals, researchers in the areas of traumatic stress and child abuse, attorneys, judges, and survivors of abuse and trauma. |
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| "A FINE COLLECTION OF SCHOLARLY WORKS that address key questions about memory for childhood and adult traumas from a variety of disciplines and empirical approaches. A MUST-READ VOLUME FOR ANYONE WISHING TO UNDERSTAND TRAUMATIC MEMORY." | ||||||||||||||||
Kathryn Quina, PhD, Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies, University of Rhode Island |
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| "FASCINATING . . . MULTIDISCIPLINARY. A BLUEPRINT FOR MEANINGFUL COLLABORATION. This book -- the product of an extraordinary collaboration of a diverse range of psychologists studying trauma and memory -- MAKES A REFRESHING AND IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION to the study of traumatic stress." | ||||||||||||||||
Ross E. Cheit, PhD, JD, Associate Professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Contents " Foreword: Entering the Secret Garden: The Interface of Cognitive Neuroscience and Trauma Research (Terence M. Keane) " The Meeting of Trauma and Cognitive Science: Facing Challenges and Creating Opportunities at the Crossroads (Anne P. DePrince and Jennifer J. Freyd) " Exploring the Nature of Traumatic Memory: Combining Clinical Knowledge with Laboratory Methods (Bessel A. van der Kolk, James W. Hopper, and Janet E. Osterman) " Retrieving, Assessing, and Classifying Traumatic Memories: A Preliminary Report on Three Case Studies of a New Standardized Method (James W. Hopper and Bessel van der Kolk) " A Cognitive Analysis of the Role of Suggestibility in Explaining Memories for Abuse (Kathy Pezdek) " The Role of the Self in False Memory Creation (Mark A. Oakes and Ira E. Hyman, Jr.) " Discovering Memories of Abuse in the Light of Meta-Awareness (Jonathan W. Schooler) " Perspectives on Memory for Trauma and Cognitive Processes Associated with Dissociative Tendencies (Jennifer J. Freyd and Anne P. DePrince) " A Biological Model for Delayed Recall of Childhood Abuse (J. Douglas Brenner) " Active Forgetting: Evidence for Functional Inhibition as a Source of Memory Failure (Michael C. Anderson) " Experiential Avoidance and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Cognitive Mediational Model of Rape Recovery (Laura E. Boeschen, Mary P. Koss, Aurelio Jos, Figueredo, and James A. Coan) " Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Childhood Abuse Survivors (Valerie J. Edwards, Robyn Fivush, Robert F. Anda, Vincent J. Felitti, and Dale F. Nordenberg) " A Preliminary Report Comparing Trauma-Focused and Present-Focused Group Therapy Against a Wait-Listed Condition Among Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors with PTSD (Catherine Classen, Cheryl Koopman, Kirsten Nevill-Manning, and David Spiegel) " Dialogue Between Speakers and Attendees at the 1998 Meeting on Trauma and Cognitive Science: Questions and Answers About Traumatic Memory (Chris R. Brewin and Bernice Andrews) " Finding a Secret Garden in Trauma Research (Jennifer J. Freyd and Anne P. DePrince) " Index " Reference Notes Included | ||||||||||||||||
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| (A monograph published simultaneously as the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Vol. 4, No. 2 #8.) | ||||||||||||||||
“Sheds light on topics including recovered memory, the cognitive uses of disassociation, and the effects of early trauma on subsequent information processing.”
SciTech Book News [December 2001]
“A WELCOME RESOURCE for people who appreciate that false memories and recovered
memories are both possible. . . . This book will interest professionals and
graduate students in clinical and cognitive psychology. It will also interest
classroom teachers who want some current information about a puzzling psychological
phenomenon.”
Psychology of Women Quarterly [Matlin, M.W. (2002) New perspectiveson the recovered memory/false meory debate. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 266-267.]
"By reading this book, clinicians and researchers alike can expect to expand their understanding of cognitive processes involved in the organization, retrieval, and processing of traumatic memories."
Association for Women in Psychology Newsletter [Quinn, K. (2002) Review of Trauma & Cognitive Science. Association for Women in Psychology Newsletter, Fall 2002, 18-19.]
"In 1998, there was an important conference on the interface of cognitive neuroscience and trauma research which brought together some of the leading researchers from cognitive science, developmental science, neuroscience, and clinical research. Together these cutting edge researchers studied the issues of processing trauma from their varying perspectives. This important book is based on that conference. It has relevance to both researchers in the fields of cognitive science and trauma research as well as to therapists.
"Underlying this important book is the belief that there are myriad ways of processing trauma and that trauma can be forgotten fully or in part. The twelve chapters focus on such issues as how and why this event takes place and on the consequences of this event. This consequential work points to future research directions and holds implications and directions for therapists as well.
"In the twelve chapters, there is application of cognitive paradigms to trauma research from various approaches. Chapter contributors include such leading researchers as van der Kolk, Pezdek, Schooler, Freyd, Bremner, Anderson, Koss, Fivush, Classen, Brewin, and Andrews as well as others. Cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience and psychological distress, healing and therapy all have a say in this outstanding volume. The research is cutting edge, represents various fields, and gives voice to both quantitative and qualitative data. The book concludes with an laudable synthesis by Brewin and Andrews in which they consider, for example, the issues of representation of traumatic events in memory, the psychological and biological theories available to explain amnesia for traumatic events, the role of therapeutic suggestion in recovered memory, the ways in which memories are recovered, the context for recovered memory, and the implications of current knowledge about trauma and memory for therapeutic treatment.
"The book bursts with intellectual vitality, collaboration, and integration. The editors should be commended for putting together a cutting-edge work which considers one of the most controversial topics in contemporary psychology, the issue of processing trauma. This multi-disciplinary and collaborative book, with its twelve packed chapters, will direct the work of researchers and clinicians in the next decade."
Review of book by Judith Alpert, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University
Faculty and Supervisor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis
Last update
21-Apr-2005
, jjf@dynamic.uoregon.edu