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How Recovered Memory Debates Reduce the Richness of Human Identity

How Recovered Memory Debates Reduce the Richness of Human Identity COMMENTARIES The implications of de Rivera's study are consonant another. In this connection, a literary model of mind with the growing body of literature that focuses on control is the late-19th-century novel Trilby (1894), iatrogenic contributions to the diagnosis and treatment which features Svengali as the master hypnotist who of psychological distress. controls the behavior of his protegk. The Svengali stereotype persists in popular entertainment concep- tions of hypnotism. Notes Recapitulation I am grateful to my colleague, Dr. Ralph M. Carney, for a critical reading. In de Rivera's four cases, the following sequence of Theodore R. Sarbin, 255 15 Hatton Road, Carmel, events applies: CA 93923-8232. 1. An unhappy person seeks help from a therapist with Aesculapian authority. References 2. The search for causes guided by the beliefs of the therapist that adult disorder is caused by Benedict, R. (1934). Patterns of culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. childhood abuse. Danziger, K. (1990). Constructing the subject: Historical origins of 3. The search for memories when the client reports psychological research. New York: Cambridge University Press. no memories of abuse. DuMaurier, G. (1894). Trilby. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Com- 4. The therapist's authoritative assertion that pany. Gerrig, R. J. (1993). Experiencing narrative http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

How Recovered Memory Debates Reduce the Richness of Human Identity

Singer, Jefferson A.
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 8 (4): 5 – Dec 1, 1997
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COMMENTARIES The implications of de Rivera's study are consonant another. In this connection, a literary model of mind with the growing body of literature that focuses on control is the late-19th-century novel Trilby (1894), iatrogenic contributions to the diagnosis and treatment which features Svengali as the master hypnotist who of psychological distress. controls the behavior of his protegk. The Svengali stereotype persists in popular entertainment concep- tions of hypnotism. Notes Recapitulation I am grateful to my colleague, Dr. Ralph M. Carney, for a critical reading. In de Rivera's four cases, the following sequence of Theodore R. Sarbin, 255 15 Hatton Road, Carmel, events applies: CA 93923-8232. 1. An unhappy person seeks help from a therapist with Aesculapian authority. References 2. The search for causes guided by the beliefs of the therapist that adult disorder is caused by Benedict, R. (1934). Patterns of culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. childhood abuse. Danziger, K. (1990). Constructing the subject: Historical origins of 3. The search for memories when the client reports psychological research. New York: Cambridge University Press. no memories of abuse. DuMaurier, G. (1894). Trilby. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Com- 4. The therapist's authoritative assertion that pany. Gerrig, R. J. (1993). Experiencing narrative

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