Book Reviews

Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories

The Making of Lasting Memories by James L. McGaugh is an excellent book on memory, and helps us further understand the durability of traumatic memories! Speaking as a therapist who has worked in the trauma field for 20 years this book is an essential addition to the professional library. It is also accessible to the non-specialist audience. Although it does make for dry reading in some places the information contained in the book is top class...

Reviewer: Michael O'Sullivan

Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse

"Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse (Controversies & Best Practice) ISBN: 0-19-531177-9 is a very useful title for the trauma worker's professional library. I came across it in a bookshop specialising in law books but it should be generally available in any bookshop. Published by Oxford University Press and retailing at about £20 it is a comprehensive overview of research in this very difficult area. It quite usefully explodes some of the myths that have allowed miscarriages of justice and false accusations of abuse in the past. It refers comprehensively to all of the studies and authors on whose work it draws so is also a boon for anyone involved in research in this area. The book is divided into 17 self-contained chapters on various subjects, although not all of the material covered by this book is directly of interest to psychological trauma support workers. Those chapters that are, such as "Children's Memory and Suggestion", "Models for Assessing Child Sexual Abuse", and "Children Who Do Not Want to Disclose" most certainly make for a very informative read."

Reviewer: Michael O'Sullivan

Purchased from: Wildey & Sons http://www.wildy.com - Fleet Street, London

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