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Recovered memories refers to the recall of traumatic events, typically of sexual abuse in childhood, by adults who have exhibited little or no previous awareness of such experiences. The controversy over the reliability and veracity of such memories has not only split families, but also the psychological profession. The debate has continued, as much in the sober pages of scientific and professional journals, as in the public arenas of press, television and popular books. In the 1980s, this debate was characterised by proponents taking up extreme positions: either all such memories were, by definition, inevitably false or, alternatively, any move to question such memories was a cynical attempt to. | RECOVERED MEMORIES SEEKING THE MIDDLE GROUND Recovered Memories Seeking the Middle Ground. Edited by Graham M. Davies and Tim Dalgleish Copyright 2001 John Wiley Sons Ltd. ISBNs 0-471-49131-4 HB 0-471-49132-2 PB RECOVERED MEMORIES SEEKING THE MIDDLE GROUND Edited by Graham M. Davies University of Leicester UK and Tim Dalgleish MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit UK JOHN WILEY SONS LTD Chichester New York Weinheim Brisbane Singapore Toronto Copyright 2001 by John Wiley Sons Ltd Baffins Lane Chichester West Sussex PO19 1UD England National 01243 779777 International 44 1243 779777 e-mail for orders and customer service enquiries cs-books@ Visit our Home Page on http or http All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording scanning or otherwise except under the terms of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd 90 Tottenham Court Road London W1P 0LP UK without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Other Wiley Editorial Offices John Wiley Sons Inc. 605 Third Avenue New York NY 10158-0012 USA WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Pappelallee 3 D-69469 Weinheim Germany John Wiley Australia Ltd 33 Park Road Milton Queensland 4064 Australia John Wiley Sons Asia Pte Ltd 2 Clementi Loop 02-01 Jin Xing Distripark Singapore 129809 John Wiley Sons Canada Ltd 22 Worcester Road Rexdale Ontario M9W 1L1 Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Recovered memories seeking the middle ground edited by Graham M. Davies and Tim Dalgleish. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-471-49131-4 cased ISBN 0-471-49132-2 pbk. 1. Recovered memory. 2. False memory syndrome. 3. Adult child abuse victims Psychology. 4. Child sexual abuse Investigation. I. Davies Graham 1943- II. Dalgleish Tim. R4285 2001 .