-Caveat Lector- Hi ! Below please find information about Jennifer Freyd's books. Sincerely, Neil Brick This may be triggering for survivors of abuse. excerpts from http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/trauma.html Freyd, Jennifer J. (1994). Betrayal trauma: Traumatic amnesia as an adaptive response to childhood abuse. Ethics & Behavior 4 (4) 307-329. Abstract: Describes psychogenic amnesia as an adaptive response to childhood abuse based on betrayal trauma theory. Why amnesia is a response to childhood abuse, the cognitive architecture of these dissociations, why and how traumatic amnesia occurs, and the implications of these findings are discussed. Victims may need to remain unaware of the trauma not to reduce suffering but rather to promote survival. Amnesia enables the child to maintain an attachment with a figure vital to survival, development, and thriving. Analysis of evolutionary pressures, mental modules, social cognition, and developmental needs suggests that the degree to which the most fundamental human ethics are violated can influence the nature, form, and processes of trauma and responses to trauma. (PsycINFO Database) Ordering: The Ethics & Behavior issue can be ordered from LEA by calling 1-800-9BOOKS9, fax to 201/236-0072, or e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freyd, J.J. (1996). The science of memory: Apply with caution. Traumatic StressPoints, 10 (4), 1, 8. Freyd, J. J. (1997). Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory. Feminism and Psychology. 7, 22-32. Opening Section: Interpersonal Power. Who has it? Who doesn't have it? What happens when power is used to abuse? These are central questions for feminist psychology. Implicit in these considerations of power are questions of interpersonal trust and betrayal: who trusts whom, and why is trust required? What happens when trust is betrayed? How does interpersonal power influence interpersonal trust? How does a person respond when a more powerful person betrays? Interpersonal power, interpersonal trust, and betrayal are also fundamental components of betrayal trauma theory (Freyd, 1994; 1996). Betrayal trauma theory addresses the motivations for, and mechanisms resulting in, amnesia for childhood abuse. In this article I will briefly summarize some aspects of betrayal trauma theory (focusing mostly on the motivations, not the mechanisms). I will then discuss some issues relevant to feminist psychology. Ordering: Individual issues of Feminism and Psychology may be ordered from Sage Publications, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 805-499-0721. Freyd, J. J. (1998) Science in the Memory Debate. Ethics & Behavior, 8 (2), 101-113. Abstract: Experimental Psychology has much to offer the current debate about memories of childhood abuse. However, laboratory scientists, with their enormous cognitive authority to define reality for the rest of the population, must be especially conservative when arguing that laboratory results on memory generalize to contested memories of abuse. Researchers must make an effort to untangle the appropriate from inappropriate application of research results to this debate. A crucial untangling strategy for future research on general phenomena involves taking care to pose questions separately. When the research is disseminated, its relevance and its limitations must be carefully communicated. Finally, scientists must attend to their power to define reality for others. Ordering: This article appeared in a Special Issue of Ethics & Behavior. Other contributors include Ross Cheit, Anna Salter, David Calof, Jennifer Hoult, Laura Brown. The special issue (Volume 8, Number 2) of Ethics & Behavior can be ordered from LEA by calling 1-800-9BOOKS9, fax to 201/236-0072, or e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freyd, J. J., S. R. Martorello, J. S. Alvarado, A. E. Hayes, & J. C. Christman (1998) Cognitive environments and dissociative tendencies: Performance on the Standard Stroop task for high versus low dissociators. Applied Cognitve Psychology, 12, S91-S103. Abstract: Dissociative experiences are characterized by a disruption in integration of consciousness, attention, and/or memory. Most individuals have some dissociative experiences (such as "highway hypnosis"), but some individuals have remarkably frequent and intense dissociative experiences (as in the case of Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder)). We hypothesized that individual differences in dissociative experiences may have an attentional basis an/or effect on attentional mechanisms. We report on a study in which we selected high and low dissociators, as measured by the Dissociative Experiences Scale (Bernstein and Putnam, 1986) and we evaluated each group's performance on a basic Stroop interference task with incongruent colour terms and control stimuli. We found that the high dissociators showed greater Stroop interference than did the low dissociators. We discuss our current theoretical understanding of this relationship in which we speculate that a history of trauma is an important causal factor in both high levels of dissociative experiences and changes in basic attentional strategies and mechanisms. Ordering: Single issues of the journal of Applied Cognitve Psychology can be ordered from John Wiley Publishers http://www.wiley.com/ Veldhuis, C. B., & Freyd, J. J. (1999). Groomed for silence, groomed for betrayal. In M. Rivera (Ed.), Fragment by Fragment: Feminist Perspectives on Memory and Child Sexual Abuse (pp. 253-282). Charlottetown, PEI Canada: Gynergy Books. Overview (paragraph from page 254): In this article, we seek to explore the relationships between language and memory in the context of childhood abuse. We will consider this language-memory relationship from various perspectives, including the role of societal responses to disclosures and, especially, the role of perpetrator communication on the victim's subsequent memory and processing of the event. We theorize that, in addition to victim motivations related to coping with betrayal trauma (that is, betrayal by someone close to them), certain patterns of communication within the perpetrator-victim relationship will have predictable effects on victim awareness and memory of the abuse -- and perhaps that the perpetrator can exploit these very dynamics to suppress the child's knowledge of the abuse. 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