Freud and False Memory Syndrome

by Phil Mollon

Book Overview

Since about 1992, an astonishingly fierce scientific, professional and legal controversy has arisen around the allegation that psychotherapists may sometimes have fostered false memories of childhood... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840461330
• ISBN13: 9781840461336
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Totem Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

thougtful thoughts

For some time it has been known that that there has been anindustry of child abuse memories implated by psychotherapists. Amazingcases have turned out to be fantasies affecting numberless people. In this small book, only too small, the author takes us through the alledged first cause: Freud and psychoanalysis. Is he the one to blame for all these patients that are suddenly taking legal action against their parents and others for sexual abuse? It is a well argued book that tries to defend Freud. Though he does that, the subject deserves much more than a few pages to unravel the mysteries of memory, P.A. methods, factors of possible suggestion of symptoms in therapy and the unconcious. Nevertheless it is a well written introduction to a malady that affects the credibily of P.A., Freud and the establisment in general. The book provides a futher reading list that makes it valuable in itself.