Hurting Memories and Beneficial Forgetting
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Biographical Developments, and Social Conflicts

In this volume a comprehensive scientific overview is given on the development of "hurting memories" in individuals and societies

Michael Linden (Edited by), Krzysztof Rutkowski (Edited by)

9780123983930

Hardback, published 14 January 2013

240 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.49 kg

Approx.10 pages

1. Neural Signature of Emotional Memories and their Effects on Emotional Responding

2. Memory and Meaning

3. Retraumatization and Sensitization

4. Pathological modes of remembering. The PTSD experience

5. Prejudices, stereotypes and symbolized thinking as condensed memories

6. Paramnesias, suggested and false memories and their individual and societal consequences

7. Pharmacology of learning and forgetting

8. Not remembered trauma – lifelong symptoms

9. Sexual childhood abuse and enduring personality change

10. Spectrum of posttraumatic mental reactions and disorders

11. Working with unconscious and explicit memories in psychotherapy

12. Exposure and eye movement desensitization

13. Narrative psychotherapy

14. Wisdom psychotherapy

15. Memories as cause of political conflicts and wars

16. Coping with hurting memories in large social settings - how truth commissions work and what they achieve

17. Forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychology [JM]