Memory Matters: Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections

Janice Haaken is professor of psychology at Portland state University, a clinical and Community psychologist, and a documentary filmmaker. She has published extensively in the areas of psychoanalysis and feminism, the history of gender and diagnostic categories, group responses to violence and trauma, gender and collective remembering, storytelling, and the psychology of social change. Paula Reavey is a senior Lecturer in psychology at London south University. Her research interests are around social remembering, embodiment and distress across a variety of therapeutic, everyday and psychiatric settings. These include the study of everyday recollections of child sexual abuse, therapeutic understanding of gender and memory and the use of memory work with service users.Haaken, Jan is the author of 'Memory Matters: Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections', published 2009 under ISBN 9780415444910 and ISBN 0415444918.