The Recovered Memories Controversy: Where Do We Go from Here?

Recovered Memories: Seeking the Middle Ground

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 69-93

  Lindsay, D Stephen ^a   Read, J Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CSA memory oriented approaches to psychotherapy; Recovered memories of CSA; Transfer appropriate processing (TAP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872137124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470013486.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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