1st Edition

Functional Disorders of Memory (PLE: Memory)

Edited By John Kihlstrom, Frederick Evans Copyright 1979
436 Pages
by Psychology Press

436 Pages
by Psychology Press

436 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1979, the chapters in this volume summarize the available knowledge pertaining to a variety of functional – as opposed to explicitly organic – amnesias and disruptions of memory. Each chapter is written by an expert, and each author has attempted to integrate his area of inquiry into the contemporary body of theory and research on memory and cognition. Functional memory... Read more

Ernest R. Hilgard Foreword.  Preface.  Part 1: Disordered and Anomalous Memory in Everyday Life  1. Graham Reed Everyday Anomolies of Recall and Recognition  2. Sheldon H. White and David B. Pillemer Childhood Amnesia and the Development of a Socially Accessible Memory System  3. Norman E. Spear Experimental Analysis of Infantile Amnesia  4. David Schonfield and M.J. Stones Remembering and Aging  Part 2: Disrupted Memory in Special States of Consciousness  5. Ralph R. Miller and Nancy A. Marlin Amnesia Following Electroconvulsive Shock  6. John F. Kihlstrom and Frederick J. Evans Memory Retrieval Process During Posthypnotic Amnesia  7. Nilly Adam Disruption of Memory Functions Associated with General Anesthetics  8. David B. Cohen Remembering and Forgetting Dreaming  9. James M. Swanson and Marcel Kinsbourne State-Dependent Learning and Retrieval: Methodological Cautions and Theoretical Considerations  Part 3: Psychodynamic Factors in Memory  10. John C. Nemiah Dissociative Amnesia: A Clinical and Theoretical Reconsideration  11. Lester Luborsky, Harold Sackeim and Paul Christoph The State Conducive to Momentary Forgetting  12 Matthew Hugh Erdelyi and Benjamin Goldberg Let’s Not Sweep Regression Under the Rug: Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Repression.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

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John Kihlstrom, Frederick Evans