Extreme Normality: Preface and Performance

  • The current reemergence of clinicians’ attention to the sequelae of childhood sexual abuse has been met by a powerful critical opposition. The criticisms often extend to many forms of psychotherapy and to psychoanalytic treatments of trauma. This article situates the debate in its historical context. It examines the use of eyewitness testimony and the work of Elizabeth Loftus in this controversy and makes a case for a more wide-ranging, careful, and critical reading of cognitive neuroscience and empirical studies of memory processes. The distinctions between clinical data, legal evidence, and research findings are considered. The essay also examines some of the challenges and problems in treating trauma and in considering the impact of real events in a relational and social constructionist psychoanalysis.

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Author:Adrienne Harris
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 06 (1996), pp. 155-187.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1996
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Harris_A_1996a
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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