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From the archive: ‘Involuntary autobiographical memories’ by D. Berntsen (1996). Applied Cognitive Psychology , 10 , 435–454 with commentary
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.1776
Subject(s) - psychology , autobiographical memory , cognition , cognitive psychology , childhood amnesia , everyday life , perceptual psychology , recall , basic science , differential psychology , childhood memory , episodic memory , psychiatry , epistemology , philosophy
Abstract The paper introduced to cognitive psychology the phenomenon that autobiographical memories have a habit of springing effortlessly to mind. In a diary study, it was way ahead of its time. In addition to being part of the trend to bring aspects of everyday mental life into cognitive psychology, such involuntary memories have been explored by the author and others to strengthen the links between cognitive and clinical psychology, in this case PTSD.