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Cognitive perspectives on memory recovery
Author(s) -
Morton John
Publication year - 1994
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.2350080408
Subject(s) - psychology , parallels , amnesia , personality , cognition , sexual abuse , cognitive psychology , autobiographical memory , childhood amnesia , developmental psychology , episodic memory , psychoanalysis , recall , poison control , childhood memory , injury prevention , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , medicine , environmental health , engineering
There are strong parallels between recovered memories and multiple personality disorder, both are associated with child sexual abuse and both involve dense amnesia of one kind of another. Recovered memory is inherently unstable. Since it is relatively stable, the properties of multiple personality disorder have been investigated experimentally in one or two cases. This enables psychology modelling to be carried out with more confidence. The Headed Records Model (Morton, Hammersley and Bekerian, 1985) is used to develop a concept of self which provides leverage in understanding, M.P.D. Recovered memories can be understood in a similar way. False memories are only slightly, though significantly different. There is no bar to this coexistence.