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Memory Matters
Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections
This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual...
Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Hard Knocks
Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling
Series: Women and Psychology
This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women’s movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get...
Published April 27th 2010 by Routledge