Hurting memories and beneficial forgetting : posttraumatic stress disorders, biographical developments, and social conflicts / edited by Michael Linden, Krzysztof Rutkowski.

Includes bibliographical references.

Spectrum of persisting memories and pseudomemories, distortions, and psychopathology / Michael Linden -- Electrophysiological signature of emotional memories / Mathias Weymar and Alfons Hamm -- Pharmacological approaches to understand, prevent, and mitigate hurting memories. Lessons from posttraumatic stress disorders / Hans-Peter Kapfhammer -- Memory and social meaning : the impact of society and culture on traumatic memories / Nigel Hunt -- Retraumatization : the vicious circle of intrusive memory / Katrin Schock and Christine Knaevelsrud -- Pathological modes of remembering : the PTSD experience / Michael Schon̈enberg -- Hurting memories and intrusions in posttraumatic embitterment disorders (PTED) as compared to posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) -- Symbolized thinking as the background of toxic memories / Bohdan Wasilewski -- False memories / Hans Stoffels -- The constitution of narrative identity / Theo Leydenbach -- Implicit memories and the structure of the values system after the experience of trauma in childhood and adulthood / Krzysztof Rutkowski and Edyta Dembińska -- Moving beyond childhood adversity : association between salutogenic factors and subjective well-being among adult survivors of trauma / Shanta R. Dube, Vincent J. Felitti and Shobhana Rishi -- Working with unconscious and explicit memories in psychodynamic psychotherapy in patients with chronic depression / Svenja Taubner -- Overcoming hurting memories by wisdom and wisdom psychotherapy / Barbara Lieberei and Michael Linden -- Healing of psychological trauma from military operations by transformation of memories / Andreas Gewandt and Peter L. Zimmerman -- The creation and development of social memories of traumatic events : the Oudewater Massacre in 1575 / Erika Kuijpers -- Conflict avoidance, forgetting, and distorted memories by media influence on family memories : Grandpa was no Nazi and no Communist / Klaus Bachmann -- Acting out and working through traumatic memory : confronting the past in the South African context / Pamela Gobodo-Madikizela -- Empathy, forgiveness, and reconciliation : the truth and reconciliation commission in South Africa / Melike M. Fourie, Pamela Gobodo-Madikizela and Dan J. Stein.