REMEMBERING OUR CHILDHOOD by Karl Sabbagh

PUBLISHED: 2009 / ISBN: 978 0199218400 / PUBLISHER: OUP Oxford / BOOK DETAILS: Hardcover, £16.99

How memory betrays us

What’s your earliest memory? How far back can we really remember, and how accurate are the events we recall?

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, Karl Sabbagh shows how fragile and unreliable our memories are - especially those of childhood. Scientific experiments demonstrate the ease with which memories can be reshaped or wholly false memories planted. Memory is a dynamic process.

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FRACTURED FAMILIES edited by Norman Brand

PUBLISHED: 2007 / ISBN: 978 0 9555184 0 9 / PUBLISHER: BFMS / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £6.99

The untold anguish of the falsely accused

Parents falsely accused of sexual abuse by their now adult children are bravely speaking out about their heartbreak through a book which puts their accounts into the public domain for the first time.

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MISTAKES WERE MADE (BUT NOT BY ME) by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson

PUBLISHED: 2008 / ISBN: 978 1905177219 / PUBLISHER: Pinter & Martin Ltd / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £8.99

Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right - a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong.

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COUNSELLING OR QUACKERY? by William Burgoyne

PUBLISHED: 2004 / ISBN: 1 905059 50 7 / PUBLISHER: www.pabd.com / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £6.75

A personal view of the Therapy Industry and the Therapy Culture that underpins it

This book attempts to provide an easily-read guide for parents and other secondary victims of therapy, and those who are contemplating therapy, are already receiving it or have experienced therapy but have doubts about their treatment.

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VICTIMS OF MEMORY by Mark Pendergrast

PUBLISHED: 1997 / ISBN: 978 0002556842 / PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, out of print

Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives

A comprehensive account of how individuals come to make the most serious, yet false, accusations of sexual abuse. A study of how families are being torn apart and adult children turned against their parents by mesmerizing but deluded analysts and social workers. Using real life cases, the book examines the phenomenon of Repressed Memory Syndrome.

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REMEMBERING TRAUMA by Richard J McNally

PUBLISHED: 2005 / ISBN: 978 0674018020 / PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £16.95

Anyone interested in understanding how trauma is remembered must read this book. Remembering Trauma is essential for its field - a work that must become standard reading if that field is to be purged of needless confusion and fortified against future errors of the same general kind.

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THE SECRET OF BRYN ESTYN by Richard Webster

PUBLISHED: 2009 / ISBN: 978 0951592267 / PUBLISHER: The Orwell Press / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £11.95

The making of a modern witch hunt

A story of false accusations, judicial blindness, bad journalism and innocent lives destroyed. The Secret of Bryn Estyn tells of the greatest series of miscarriages of justice in recent British history - how innocent lives have been destroyed, the public deceived and millions of pounds wasted in a witch-hunt against innocent people.

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FREUD by Richard Webster

PUBLISHED: 2003 / ISBN: 978 0297829850 / PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicholson / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £3.00

A critical reassessment of one of the most controversial philosophers of the last century.

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FREUD'S FALSE MEMORIES by Richard Webster

PUBLISHED: 1996 / ISBN: 0 9515922 1 1 / PUBLISHER: The Orwell Press / BOOK DETAILS: Paperback, £1.50

Psychoanalysis and the Recovered Memory Movement from Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (1995)

The observation that Freud’s writings, and in particular his theory of repression, are the ultimate source of the recovered memory movement which has flourished in the United States in the last decade, has been made on a number of occasions already. The subject is a huge one and in order to avoid becoming ensnared by the present Richard Webster has only touched upon it briefly in this attempt to review the psychoanalytic past.

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