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The re-emergence of memory recovery: return of seduction theory and birth of survivorship
Jose Hultsubject
Memory recoveryHistoryHistory and Philosophy of SciencePoint (typography)Survivorship curveContext (language use)PsychologyDevelopmental psychologyHistory of psychiatrydescription
This paper comprises an analysis of an aspect of the history of psychiatric/psychological knowledge. The case in point is the transience of the notion of memory recovery in the context of childhood sexual abuse. By transience is meant that the concept of memory recovery apparently vanished and re-emerged despite the fact that its source, childhood sexual abuse, did not disappear. Such abuse is a fairly common phenomenon worldwide, whereas memory recovery seems to be temporally and locally limited. Is it possible to say that psychiatric/psychological knowledge of memory recovery is also context-dependent and culture-bound? If so, what would this mean in relation to the applicability of this knowledge?
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-02-01 | History of the Human Sciences |