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Retrieving and Modifying Traumatic Memories: Recent Research Relevant to Three Controversies

2019; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0963721418807728

1467-8721

Iris M. Engelhard, Richard J. McNally, Kevin van Schie,

Identity, Memory, and Therapy

The purpose of this article is to review recent research that is relevant to three controversies concerning memory for trauma. First, we briefly review the debate about recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse, summarizing a third interpretation distinct from both the repression and false-memory accounts. Second, we address new findings related to claims that memories of trauma, especially in people with posttraumatic stress disorder, are especially fragmented and disorganized. Third, we discuss research designed to test whether eye movements in eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy are effective.