Memory Quest: Trauma and the Search for Personal History
- ISBN-10
- 0393702340
- ISBN-13
- 9780393702347
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company Incorporated
- Author
- Elizabeth A. Waites
Description
This book is about autobiographical memory and personal history, with a special focus on the impact of trauma on several levels of information-processing and memory organization.
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