Victims of Memory: Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives (DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY DISORDER ILLNESS INCEST)

Hinesburg, Vermont, U.S.A.: Upper Access Book Pub. New. 1996. Paperback. 0942679180 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED -- 636 pp. , Oversize softcover -- DESCRIPTION: Each year, more than a million Americans are convinced by their therapists (or by misguided "self-help" books) that their childhoods were not as happy as they thought--that they harbored repressed memories of horrendous abuse by their parents, other relatives, and even satanic cults. Their identities are destroyed, their pasts rewritten, and their families are torn apart. Several books have been written about this strange phenomenon, some of them very good, but Pendergrast's has been consistently acclaimed by reviewers as the most comprehensive, balanced, and readable coverage of the topic. Originally published in 1995, the book was so highly received that a second edition came out just a year later. -- REVIEWS: A Few of the Many, Many Great Reviews -- "An impressive display of scholarship. Pendergrast demonstrates a laudable ability to lay out all sides of the argument." (Scientific American) -- "Victims of Memory constitutes the most ambitious and comprehensive, as well as the most emotionally committed, of all the studies before us." (The New York Review of Books) -- "Pendergrast makes a strong case that what began as a way to empower women has now victimized them, isolating them from friends, families, and their true memories. Victims of Memory deserves to be on library shelves, right beside The Courage to Heal. (Booklist) -- "By far the most thorough journalism on recovered memory therapy appears in Victims of Memory. (Los Angeles Times) -- "In his impassioned, richly literate, and thoroughly researched book, Pendergrast tells an appalling, heart-breaking horror story of the forces of mental health gone berserk. This is a courageous, terrifying, and necessary book." (Frank Pittman, M. D. , Psychology Today advice columnist). -- with a bonus offer-- .