Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies

This book is a comprehensive, scholarly, and balanced guide to the controversies revolving around recovered trauma memories, especially childhood sexual abuse. The contributors provide a road map to the exciting new research on memory, including the ways in which it is affected by trauma. Therapeutic approaches to patients suffering the after-effects of trauma are considered in detail. Finally, the book addresses how these clinical controversies have made their way into the courts, and considers what our society's responses should be.

Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., is the A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester. His previous books include Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change (OUP, 1994) and Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (OUP, 1987).
Lisa A. Uyehara, M.D., formerly an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School, has a private practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Mark R. Elin, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School and is a neuropsychologist at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.