Autobiographical Memory and Emotional Disorder (Special Issues of Memory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138877743 ISBN 13: 9781138877740

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2019

Synopsis

For those suffering from emotional disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression aspects of the personal past can dominate conscious experience in tenacious and toxic ways. For example, memories of distressing autobiographical experiences can intrude into awareness as thoughts or images, as flashbacks or nightmares, each laden with unwanted and painful affect. This special issue of Memory focuses on two broad themes. The first is the nature of autobiographical remembering of the personal past ―what are the characteristics of such memories? And to what extent are they phenomenologically distinct from other types of autobiographical remembering? The second theme concerns varieties of difficulties in remembering emotional experiences from complete amnesia to lack of specificity of autobiographical recall. This volume draws together the world’s leading theorists and researchers on these varied issues to provide a broad overview of the cutting-edge work in this field.

About this title

About the Author:

Tim Dalgleish is part of the Emotion Research Group at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Chris R. Brewin is at the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1138877743
• ISBN 13: 9781138877740
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Dalgleish Tim