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Theories of Memory brings together some of the most influential researchers currently working in the area of memory. Individual chapters cover a wide range of key areas of memory research, but throughout the book the main emphasis is on theoretical issues, how they relate to existing empirical work and what implications they have for future work in the area. Topics covered include: the development of different memory abilities, the case for different subsystems in memory, and the structure of different memory subsystems. Different views on the level of explanation offered by our theories of memory are discussed. Not only do the contributions reveal diversity in the theoretical concerns within memory research, they also illustrate a considerable range in the type of evidence that is brought to bear on these concerns. The diversity within the book reflects the vigour of modern research into memory and shows how it continues to be an important research area. Theories of Memory provides a unique state-of-the-art perspective on this key aspect of cognitive psychology.

Cognitive psychology --- Memory (Mental processes) --- Memory --- Humans --- Awareness. --- Consciousness. --- Memory. --- Mémoire (philosophie). --- Mémoire. --- Rappel (psychologie). --- Physiology. --- Mémoire --- physiology. --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology)

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Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the “MPD” community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today’s moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory and our efforts to cope with psychological injuries.What is it like to suffer from multiple personality? Most diagnosed patients are women: why does gender matter? How does defining an illness affect the behavior of those who suffer from it? And, more generally, how do systems of knowledge about kinds of people interact with the people who are known about? Answering these and similar questions, Hacking explores the development of the modern multiple personality movement. He then turns to a fascinating series of historical vignettes about an earlier wave of multiples, people who were diagnosed as new ways of thinking about memory emerged, particularly in France, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Fervently occupied with the study of hypnotism, hysteria, sleepwalking, and fugue, scientists of this period aimed to take the soul away from the religious sphere. What better way to do this than to make memory a surrogate for the soul and then subject it to empirical investigation? Made possible by these nineteenth-century developments, the current outbreak of dissociative disorders is embedded in new political settings. Rewriting the Soul concludes with a powerful analysis linking historical and contemporary material in a fresh contribution to the archaeology of knowledge. As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that classifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory : the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive.

Memory -- Social aspects. --- Multiple personality -- History. --- Multiple personality -- Philosophy. --- Multiple personality -- Social aspects. --- Soul -- Psychological aspects. --- Multiple personality --- Memory --- Soul --- Learning --- Dissociative Disorders --- Humanities --- Mental Processes --- Mental Disorders --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Philosophy --- Multiple Personality Disorder --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Social aspects --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Psychological aspects. --- Pneuma --- Alternating personality --- Consciousness, Multiple --- DID (Personality disorder) --- Dissociated personality --- Dissociative identity disorder --- Double consciousness --- Double personality --- Dual personality --- MPD (Personality disorder) --- Multiple consciousness --- Multiple identity disorder --- Multiple personalities --- Multiple personality disorder --- Personality, Multiple --- Split personality --- Retention (Psychology) --- -Multiple personality --- Dissociative disorders --- -Future life --- Future life --- Philosophical anthropology --- Theological anthropology --- Animism --- Spirit --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Cognitive psychology --- Multiple Persönlichkeit --- Gedächtnis --- Seele --- Philosophie --- Humans --- Memory (Mental processes) --- Human beings