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Study of Memory
Philosophy
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Social
and Collective Memory
MEMORY:
Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry,
Philosophy,
Recovered Memory and False Memory, Trauma
1. Philosophers on the Debate
* Sue Campbell, Relational
Remembering: rethinking the memory wars (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003)
* Ian Hacking, ‘Memoro-politics, Trauma,
& the Soul’, History of the Human Sciences 7 (1994), 29-52
* Ian Hacking, Rewriting
the
Soul: multiple personality and the sciences of memory
(Princeton
U.P., 1995). Covers multiple personality and dissociative identity
disorder;
child abuse;
gender;
truth in memory; schizophrenia; trauma; sciences of memory; mind
and body;
indeterminacy in the past. See multiple reviews with author’s response
in
Metascience
7
(1995) by Sander Gilman, Michael Kenny, Jill Morawski, Richard Ofshe,
Ian
Spence, Kathy
Wilkes;
in History and Theory 36 (1997), 63-82 by Barry Allen; in History
of
the Human
Sciences
8 (1995), 107-130 by Peter Barham, Thomas Osborne, Michael Lynch;
in Mind
105 (1996), 699-701 by Marya Schechtman. And see also Ian Hacking,
Mad Travelers:
reflections on the reality of transient mental illnesses (Virginia
U.P., 1998).
* Andy Hamilton, 'False Memory
Syndrome
and the Authority of Personal Memory-Claims: a
philosophical
perspective'
– this is online if your library has a MUSE subscription, via
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_psychiatry_and_psychology/toc/ppp5.4.html
or in Philosophy,
Psychiatry, and Psychology 5 (1998), 283-297. Followed by
commentaries by
Stephen E.
Braude, M.J. Eacott, and E.J. Lowe, and the author's response.
Owen Flanagan, ‘I Remember You’,
in
his Self Expressions: mind, morals, and the meaning
of life (Oxford
U.P., 1996), 88-98
Grant Gillett, ‘My Name is
Legion, for
We are Many’, chapter 10 in his The Mind and Its
Discontents: an essay in discursive psychiatry (Oxford U.P.,
1999) on multiple
personality
and
recovered memory.
2. Balanced Introductory Discussions
* Daniel Schacter, Searching
for
Memory: the mind, the brain, and the past (Harper Collins,
1996): chpater
7
on emotional memories and trauma; chapter 9 on ‘The Memory Wars’
* Susan Engel, Context is
Everything:
the nature of memory (Freeman, 1999), chapter 3
Paul Antze & Michael Lambek,
'Introduction:
forecasting memory', in Antze & Lambek (eds),
Tense
Past:
cultural essays in trauma and memory (Routledge, 1996),
xi-xxxviii
Janet Jones, The
Psychotherapist’s Guide
to Human Memory (Basic Books, 1999)
3. Recommended Treatments
* Janice Haaken, Pillar of
Salt:
gender, memory, and the perils of looking back (New
Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers U.P., 1998). See reviews by Norm Diamond in Science
as Culture
9 (2000),
419-431; by
John Sutton, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (2000)
* Jeffrey Prager, Presenting
the
Past: psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering
(Harvard U.P.,
1998)
* Lectures
by
Jonathan Schooler and Elizabeth Loftus at the San Francisco Exploratorium
Amina Memon and Mark Young,
Desperately
seeking evidence: The recovered memory debate.
CogPrints
draft from Legal and
Criminological Psychology
2/2 (1997), 131-154.
Ann Scott, Real Events
Revisited (Virago, 1996)
4. Recovered Memory
Jennifer Freyd, Betrayal
Trauma:
the logic of forgetting childhood abuse (2nd
edition,
Harvard U.P.,
1998)
Lenore Terr, Unchained
Memories: true stories of traumatic memories (Basic Books,
1995)
Ellen Bass & Laura Davis, The
Courage to Heal: a guide for women survivors of child
sexual
abuse
(many editions, eg 3rd edition, Harper Perennial,
1994)
Nancy Potter, ‘Loopholes, Gaps,
and
What is Held Fast: democratic epistemology and claims to
recovered
memories’, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (1996),
237-254, with
commentary by
Lorraine
Code
Karen Hopenwasser, ‘Listening to
the
Body: somatic representations of dissociated memory’, in
L. Aron
(ed.), Relational Perspectives on the Body (Analytic
Press, 1998), 215-236
5. False Memory: popular
Frederick Crews, ‘The Revenge of
the
Repressed’, New York Review of Books XLI, nos. 19 & 20, 17
November
1994, pp.54-60,
and 1 December 1994, pp.49-58Lawrence Wright, Remembering Satan (Vintage,
1995)
Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine
Ketcham,
The Myth of Repressed Memory: false memories
and
allegations of sexual abuse (St. Martin’s Press, 1996)
Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters, Making
Monsters: false memories, psychotherapy, and
sexual
hysteria
(Scribner’s, 1996)
Mark Pendergrast, Victims
of
Memory: sex abuse accusations and shattered lives (Upper
Access
Publishers, 1996)
Leslie Wilson, ‘Salem’s Lot’, London
Review of Books, 23 March 1995
Martin Kottmeyer, Entirely
Unpredisposed:
The Cultural Background of UFO Abduction Reports (1990)
The False
Memory Syndrome Foundation
6. False Memory: more detailed
Kenneth Bowers and Peter
Farvolden, ‘Revisiting a Century-Old Freudian Slip: from suggestion
disavowed to
the
truth repressed’, Psychological Bulletin 119 (1996), 355-380
Lorna Goldberg, ‘A Psychoanalytic
Look
at Recovered Memories, Therapists, Cult Leaders, and
Undue
Influence’, Clinical Social Work Journal 25 (1997), 71-86
Elizabeth Loftus, 'Memory
Distortion and False Memory Creation', CogPrints
draft from
Bulletin
of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law 24(3) (1996):281-295.
Kenneth S. Pope, 'Memory, Abuse,
and
Science: Questioning Claims about the False Memory
Syndrome
Epidemic', American Psychologist, 51/9, (Sept 1996), 957-974:
in the same
journal vol. 52/9
(Sept. 1997), there are a number of commentaries on this paper (eg
by
Pamela Freyd,
Mark
Pendergrast, John Kihlstrom), with Pope’s responses.
Nicholas P. Spanos, Multiple
Identities
and False Memories: a sociocognitive perspective
(American
Psychological Association, 1996).
7. The mid-1990s Debate: academic coverage
* Martin Conway (ed), Recovered
Memories and False Memories (Oxford U.P., 1997):
especially
Conway’s introduction, and the papers by Kihlstrom and by Schooler et al
Kathy Pezdek & William Banks
(eds),
The Recovered Memory/ False Memory Debate
(Academic
Press, 1996); especially Tessler & Nelson, Howe & Courage, and
Fivush on
children’s
memory; John Kihlstrom on trauma and memory; Laura Brown on the history
of the
debate; and
reports from American and British Psychological Associations.
Paul Appelbaum, Lisa Uyehara,
& Mark Elin (eds), Trauma and Memory: clinical and legal
controversies
(Oxford U.P., 1997)
Joseph Sandler and Peter Fonagy
(eds),
Recovered Memories of Abuse: true or false?
(International
Universities
Press, 1997); interesting documenting of a controversial
conference in
London
in 1994, contributors include Larry Weiskrantz, Alan Baddeley, Susie
Orbach,
includes reports of general discussion and questions
Shelley M. Park, 'False
Memory Syndrome: A Feminist Philosophical Approach', Hypatia 12/2 (1997), 1-50
Sue Campbell, 'Women,
False Memory, and Personal Identity', Hypatia 12/2 (1997), 51-83
Valerie Sinason (ed) Memory
in
Dispute (Karnac Books, 1998)
Journal Special Issue:
Consciousness
and Cognition 3, nos.3/4 (1994)
8. Trauma: history and theory
Ruth Leys, ‘Traumatic Cures:
shell shock,
Janet, and the question of memory’, Critical Inquiry 20
(1994),
623-662; shorter version in P. Antze & M. Lambek (eds), Tense
Past: cultural essays
in
trauma and
memory (London: Routledge, 1996), 103-145
Ruth Leys, Trauma: a
genealogy (Chicago U.P., 2000)
Cathy Caruth (ed.), Trauma:
explorations
in memory (Johns Hopkins U.P., 1995)
Michael Kenny, 'Trauma, Time,
Illness, and Culture: an anthropological approach to traumatic memory',
in P. Antze
&
M. Lambek (eds), Tense Past: cultural essays in trauma and
memory (London:
Routledge,
1996), 151-171
Allen Young, 'Bodily Memory and
Traumatic
Memory', in P. Antze & M. Lambek (eds), Tense
Past:
cultural
essays in trauma and memory (London: Routledge, 1996), 89-102
9. Psychoanalysis & Memory
Sigmund Freud, Project for
A
Scientific Psychology (1895), in The Standard Edition …,
vol.1. And see
K.
Pribram & M. Gill, Freud’s 'Project' Reassessed (Basic
Books,
1986)
Sigmund Freud, ‘Remembering,
Repeating, and Working Through’
Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and
Melancholia’
Sigmund Freud, ‘A Note Upon the
Mystic
Writing Pad’ (1925), in …
* David Farrell Krell, Of
Memory,
Reminiscence, and Writing: on the verge (Indiana U.P.,
1990),
chapter 3
Jacques Derrida, ‘Freud and the
Scene
of Writing’, in Writing and Difference (Routledge, 1978)
Jacques Derrida, Archive
Fever:
a Freudian impression (Chicago U.P., 1996)
Jean-Philippe Antoine, ‘The Art
of
Memory and its Relation to the Unconscious’, Comparative
Civilizations
Review 18 (1988), 1-21
Steen Larsen, ‘Remembering and
the
Archaeology Metaphor’,
John Forrester, ‘In the Beginning
was
Repetition: on inversions and reversals in psychoanalytic
time’, Time
and
Society 1 (1992), 287-300
Frederick Crews, Memory
Wars :
Freud's Legacy in Dispute (Granta Books, 1997)
Jeffrey Masson, The
Assault on
Truth: Freud’s suppression of the seduction theory (Pocket
Books
reprint, 1998):
and see Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives (Knopf,
1984).
Allen Esterson, 'Jeffrey Masson and Freud's Seduction Theory: a new
fable based on old myths',
History of
the Human Sciences 11 (1998), 1-21 and also here
Allen Esterson, 'The Myth of Freud's Ostracism by the Medical Community
in 1896-1905:
Jeffrey Masson's assault on truth', History of Psychology 5 (2002),
115-134. and also here
10. Repression
Matthew H. Erdelyi, ‘Repression:
the
mechanism and the defense’, in D. Wegner & D.
Pennebaker
(eds), Handbook of Mental Control (Prentice-Hall,
1993), 126-148
11. Bibliographies and Links
The Memory Debate Archives
‘Recovered/Repressed/False Memory’ is part of Christian Perring’s Philosophy
of Psychiatry Bibliography
Web Resources on Repression
and
Recovered Memories by Hugh
Miller
& Pauline Williams (1997).
Philip Coons' Repressed Memory
Debate
bibliography, by a past
president
of the International Society for
the Study of
Dissociation.
Covers about 1993-1998.
The 'Jane Doe' case
Elizabeth Loftus and Melvin J.Guyer, 'Who Abused Jane
Doe?
The Hazards of the Single Case Study:
part l' and 'part 2', Skeptical
Inquirer, May/June 2002 and July 2002.
Carol Tavris, 'The
High Cost of Skepticism', Skeptical Inquirer, July/August
2002:
"Here's what happened
to two scientists who believed that tenure and
the
First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry."
'UCI
Professor
Faces Pending Lawsuit', Jamie Claridad, April 7, 2003, UC Irvine
New
University News
Elizabeth Loftus'
website,
with link to her full old website at University of Washington
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