Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood AbuseHarvard University Press, 1996 - 232 من الصفحات How can someone forget an event as traumatic as sexual abuse in childhood? people who don't know firsthand may wonder, and many apparently do, or controversy wouldn't be raging around the issue of recovered memories today. This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival. What Freyd describes, with cogent real-life examples, is "betrayal trauma," a blockage of information that would otherwise interfere with one's ability to function within an essential relationship - that of parent and dependent child, for instance. |
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Betrayal Blindness | 1 |
Conceptual Knots | 15 |
Context and Controversy | 40 |
Why Forget? | 60 |
Ways of Forgetting | 79 |
Creating Connections | 163 |
Afterword | 197 |
Acknowledgments | 220 |
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abuse survivors aspects awareness battered behavior betrayal blindness betrayal trauma theory Bill Farmer caregiver child abuse Child Sexual Abuse childhood abuse childhood amnesia childhood sexual abuse clinical consciousness Cosmides CSDM denial dissociation Elizabeth Loftus emotional episodic memory evidence example experience explicit factors false memory feelings Feldman-Summers and Pope forgetting sexual abuse forgotten Freud Freyd Fullilove happened Herman human implicit memory incest incest survivors incestuous abuse infants ink colors knowledge Kolk later learned memories of abuse memories of childhood memory recovery memory repression mental mechanisms modules motivation occur pain parent participants perpetrator person procedural memories processing Psychiatry psychogenic amnesia psychological rape reality recall recovered memories relationship remember reported Ross Cheit sensory shareability social sort stress disorder suggests survivors of childhood Syndrome Terr therapist therapy tion tive traumatic amnesia traumatic events trust type of abuse victims Wason Selection Task Williams 1994a women words York