Trauma & Cognitive Science

Preliminary Reading List for Psy 607

Prepared January 1998

 

Spring 1998 Graduate Seminar
Jennifer J. Freyd
University of Oregon

course home page: http://dynamic.oregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-spr98/

Disclaimers:

This web page is not a list of "recommended readings" in the area of trauma and cognitive science but instead the preliminary reading list for one particular graduate seminar (with a particular focus) at the University of Oregon, April-June 1998, titled "Trauma & Cognitive Science" (for particulars see http://dynamic.oregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-spr98/). This list was formed in January 1998 and may be out of date. The inclusion of a reading on this list should not be considered an endorsement of the material. Not all readings listed here were eventually assigned in the seminar, and some readings not listed here were added. For a more current list of actually assigned readings see http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-spr98/readingsbyweek.html

 

Tentative Readings

A) Primary Texts of which we'll be reading selected portions:

Bessel A. van der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, Lars Weisaeth (Eds.) Traumatic stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society. New York: Guilford Press, 1996.

Carlson, E. B. (Ed.) Trauma Research Methdology. Sidran Press, 1996.

Freyd, J. J. (1996). Betrayal Trauma: the logic of forgetting abuse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Pezdek,K. & Banks, W.P. (Ed) The Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate. Academic Press, 1996.

Wilson, J. P. & Keane, T. M. (1997) Assessing Psychological Trauma and PTSD. Guilford.

 

B) Additional articles on reading list (some to be read by all, others to be read by only some participants):

 

Anderson, M.C., & Spellman, B.A. (1995). On the status of Inhibitory mechanisms in cognition: Memory retrieval as a model case. Psychological Review, 102, 68-100.

Anderson, M.C., Bjork, R.A., & Bjork, E.L. (1994). Remembering can cause forgetting: Retrieval dynamics in long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 20, 1063-1087.

Andrews, B. Morton, J., Bekerian, D.A. Brewin, C.R. Davis, G.M., & Mollon, P. (1995) The recovery of memories in clinical practice: Experiences and beliefs of British Psychological Society Practitioners. The Psychologist: Bulletin of the British Psychological Society. 8, 5, 209-214.

Andrews, B. (1997) Can a survey of British False Memory Society members reliably inform the recovered memory debate? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 19-23.

Andrews (in press) Forms of memory recovery among adults in therapy: Preliminary Results from an in-depth survey. In D. Read & S. Lindsay (eds.) Recollections of Trauma: Scientific Research and Clinical Practice. New York: Plenum.

Andrews, B., Brewin C.R., Bekerian, D. Davies, G. Mollon, P. & Morton, J. (1997) The characteristics, context and consequences of memory recovery among adults in therapy. Talk given at: the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh, April.

Arrigio, J.M., Pezdek, K. (in press). Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Brewin, C.R. (1996). The scientific status of recovered memories. British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 131-134.

Brewin, C.R. (in press). Clinical and experimental approaches to understanding repression. In D.Read & D.S.Lindsay (eds.), Recollections of Trauma: Scientific research and clinical practice. New York: Plenum Press.

Brewin, C.R., Dalgleish, T. & Joseph, S. (1996). A dual representation theory of post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological Review, 103, 670-686.

Butler L, Spiegel D: Trauma and Memory in Review of Psychiatry, edited by Dickstein L, Riba M, Oldham J, pp II-13 - II-53. American Psychiatric Press, Washington DC, 1997.

Butler LD, Duran EFD, Jasiukatis P, Koopman C, Spiegel D. Hypnotizability and traumatic experience: a diathesis-stress model of dissociative symptomatology. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153:7, July 1996.

Fivush, R. (in press). Children's recollections of traumatic and non-traumatic events. Developmental Psychology.

Fivush, R. (1994). Young children's event recall: Are memories constructed through discourse? Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 356-373.

Fivush, R. (1993). Developmental perspectives on autobiographical recall. In G.S. Goodman and B.L. Bottoms (Eds.). Child Victims, Child Witnesses: Understanding and Improving Testimony. New York: Guilford Publications.

Fivush, R, Pipe, M.E., Murachver, T., Reese, E. (year?). Events spoken and unspoken: Implications of language and memory development for the recovered memory debate. In M.A. Conway (Ed.). Recovered memories and false memories. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Freyd, J.J. (in press). Memory and Dimensions of Trauma: Terror May be 'All-Too-Well Remembered' and Betrayal Buried. In J.R. Conte (Ed) Child Sexual Abuse: Knowns and Unknowns -- A Volume in Honor of Roland Summit. Sage Publications

Freyd, J. J. (in press) Science in the Memory Debate. Ethics & Behavior. (in press for 1998, volume 8)

Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Billings, F. J. (in press). Individual differences and the creation of false childhood memories. Memory.

Kheriaty, E., Kleinknecht, R. A., & Hyman, I. E., Jr. (in press). Recall and validation of phobia origins as a function of a structured interview versus the Phobia Origins Questionnaire. Behavior Modification.

Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Pentland, J. (1996). Guided imagery and the creation of false childhood memories. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 101-117. (Special Issue on Memory Errors).

Hyman, I. E., Jr., Husband, T. H., & Billings, F. J. (1995). False memories of childhood experiences. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9, 181-197

Hyman, I. E., Jr. (in press). Creating false autobiographical memories: Why people believe their memory errors. To appear in E. Winograd, R. Fivush, & W. Hirst (Eds.), Ecological approaches to cognition: Essays in honor of Ulric Neisser. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Kleinknecht, E. (in press). False childhood memories: Research, theory, and applications. To appear in L. M. Williams & V. L. Banyard (Eds.) Trauma and memory. Sage.

Koopman C, Classen C, Spiegel D: Predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms among survivors of the Oakland/Berkeley, California, firestorm. American Journal of Psychiatry,151(6):888-894, June 1994.

Koss, M.P., Tromp, S., & Tharan, M. (1995). Traumatic memories: Empirical foundtions, forensic and clinical implications. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2, 111-132.

Koss, M.P., Figueredo, A.J., Bell, I., Tharan, M., & Tromp, S. (1996). Rape, traumatic memory, and physical syptoms amaong employed women: A cross-validated structural model. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 1-12.

Koss, M.P., Figueredo, A.J., & Boeschen, L. (under review). Rape and PTSD: A cognitive mediational model.

Koss, M.P., Figueredo, A.J., Goldman-Pach, J., & Prince, R. (in preparation). Rape and health outcomes: Modeling contextual and cognitive mediators.

Morton, J., Hammersley, R.H. & Bekerian D.A. (1985) Headed records: a model for memory and its failures. Cognition, 20, 1-23.

Morton, J. (1991) Cognitive pathologies of memory: a headed records analysis. In: W. Kessen, A. Ortony & F. Craik (Eds.), Memories, Thoughts, and Emotions: Essays in Honor of George Mandler. New Jersey: Erlbaum, 199-210.

Morton, J. (1994) Cognitive perspectives on memory recovery. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8, 389 - 398.

Morton, J. (1996). The Dilemma of Validation. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 12, 391-395.

Myers, L.B., Brewin, C.R. & Power, M.J. (in press). Repressive coping and the directed forgetting of emotional material. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Pezdek, K., Finger, K., Hodge, D. (1997). Planting false childhood memories: the role of event plausibility. Psychological Science, 8, 437-441.

Pezdek, K., Roe, C. (1997). The suggestibility of children's memory for being touched: Planting, erasing, and changing memories. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 95-106.

Pezdek, K., Roe, C. (1995). Memory for childhood events: How suggestible is it? Consciousness and Cognition, 60, 116-128.

Putnam FW & Trickett PK (1997). The psychobiological effects of sexual abuse: A longitudinal study. Annals of the New York Academy Science , 821:150-159.

Putnam FW, Carlson EB, Ross CA, Anderson G, Clark P, Torem M, Bowman ES, Coons, PM, Patterns of dissociation in clinical and non-clinical samples. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 184:673-679, 1996.

Weingartner H, Putnam F, George DT, Ragan P. Drug state-dependent autobiographical knowledge. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 3: 304-307, 1995.

Putnam FW, Helmers K, Horowitz LA, Trickett PK: Dissociativity and hypnotizability in sexually abused girls. Child Abuse & Neglect 19, 645-655, 1995.

Schooler, J.W. (1994). Seeking the core: The issues and evidence surrounding recovered accounts of sexual trauma. Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 452-469.

Schooler, J.W. (1997) Reflections on a memory discovery. Child Maltreatment, 2, 126-133.

Schooler, J.W., Ambadar, Z., & Bendiksen, M. A. (in press) A cognitive corroborative case study approach for investigating discovered memories of sexual abuse. In D. Read and S. Lindsay (Eds.) Recollections of Trauma: Scientific Research and Clinical Practices. N.Y., N.Y.: Plenum.

Schooler, J.W. & Hyman, I.E. (in press) Investigating alternative accounts of veridical and non-veridical memories of trauma: Report of the cognitive working groups. In D. Read and S. Lindsay (Eds.) Recollections of Trauma: Scientific Research and Clinical Practices. N.Y., N.Y.: Plenum.

Spiegel D, Scheflin A: Dissociated or Fabricated? Psychiatric Aspects of Repressed Memory in Criminal and Civil Cases. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol. XLII, No. 4:411-432, October 1994.

Spiegel D: Trauma, Dissociation, and Memory in Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, edited by Yehuda R, McFarlane A, pp 225-237, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1997.

Tromp, S., Koss, M.P., Kihlstrom, J., & Tharan, M. (1995). Are rape memories different? A comparison of rape, other unpleasant, and pleasant intense memories. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 607-627.

van der Kolk, B. A., & Fisler, R. (1995). Dissociation and the fragmentary nature of traumatic memories: Overview and exploratory study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 505-525.

van der Kolk, B. A., & Saporta, J. (1993). Biological response to psychic trauma. In J. P. Wilson & B. Raphael (Ed.), International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes (pp. 25-33). New York: Plenum Press.

 

Disclaimers:

This web page is not a list of "recommended readings" in the area of trauma and cognitive science but instead the preliminary reading list for one particular graduate seminar (with a particular focus) at the University of Oregon, April-June 1998, titled "Trauma & Cognitive Science" (for particulars see http://dynamic.oregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-spr98/). This list was formed in January 1998 and may be out of date. The inclusion of a reading on this list should not be considered an endorsement of the material. Not all readings listed here were eventually assigned in the seminar, and some readings not listed here were added. For a more current list of actually assigned readings see http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-spr98/readingsbyweek.html

See also:

course home page: http://dynamic.oregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-spr98/

JJ Freyd Trauma & Memory publications