The Haworth
Maltreatment and Trauma Press A 1998 meeting at the University of Oregon is the source of this book. The meeting was an effort to bring together competing views of the issues involving memories for traumatic events. Hopefully the meeting might bring about improved ability for researchers to communicate, exchange thoughts and intentions for future research, and reduce the intense level of animosity between the separate understandings. It appears the goal has been met and people with sharply divergent approaches talked to each other and listened to at least some extent. The direction future research takes will tell whether or not greater clarity and comprehension of memory and how it works when traumatic events take place develops. The book is useful for those who want to know more about how the claim of recovered memories and the assertion that memories can be implanted can be discussed. Reviewed by Ralph Underwager, Institute for Psychological Therapies.
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