Contents

• About the Contributors
• Foreword: Entering the Secret Garden: The Interface of Cognitive Neuroscience and Trauma Research
• The Meeting of Trauma and Cognitive Science: Facing Challenges and Creating Opportunities at the Crossroads
• Exploring the Nature of Traumatic Memory: Combining Clinical Knowledge with Laboratory Methods
• Retrieving, Assessing, and Classifying Traumatic Memories: A Preliminary Report on Three Case Studies of a New Standardized Method
• A Cognitive Analysis of the Role of Suggestibility in Explaining Memories for Abuse
• The Role of the Self in False Memory Creation
• Discovering Memories of Abuse in the Light of Meta-Awareness
• Perspectives on Memory for Trauma and Cognitive Processes Associated with Dissociative Tendencies
• A Biological Model for Delayed Recall of Childhood Abuse
• Active Forgetting: Evidence for Functional Inhibition as a Source of Memory Failure
• Experiential Avoidance and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Cognitive Mediational Model of Rape Recovery
• Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Childhood Abuse Survivors
• A Preliminary Report Comparing Trauma-Focused and Present-Focused Group Therapy Against a Wait-Listed Condition Among Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors with PTSD
• Dialogue Between Speakers and Attendees at the 1998 Meeting on Trauma and Cognitive Science: Questions and Answers About Traumatic Memory
• Finding a Secret Garden in Trauma Research
• Index
• Reference Notes Included