TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints641
UR  - http://cogprints.org/641/
A1  - Pennebaker, James W.
A1  - Memon, Amina
Y1  - 1996///
N2  - The recovered memory debate exposes several traditional and recent contradictions within psychology. Building on Bowers and Farvolden, the truth of recovered memories has profoundly different meanings for therapeutic versus legal settings. Whereas memory can be distorted during the process of retrieval, certain techniques -- such as nondirective writing -- may be helpful in reducing suggestive influences in recall. Ironically, methods which have been found to produce the most accurate recollections of the past appear only subtly different from those that yield the greatest distortions. The recovered memory debate must ultimately be viewed within a cultural context, both in terms of the phenomenon and its treatment. Parallels to other explanatory and therapeutic fads related to states of nonspecific distress are discussed.
KW  - recovered memory
KW  -  therapeutic fads
KW  -  retrieval
KW  -  suggestion
TI  - Recovered Memories in Context: Thoughts and Elaborations on Bowers and Farvolden
SP  - 381
AV  - public
EP  - 385
ER  -

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