?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Recovered+Memories+in+Context%3A+Thoughts+and+Elaborations+on+Bowers+and+Farvolden&rft.creator=Pennebaker%2C+James+W.&rft.creator=Memon%2C+Amina&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=The+recovered+memory+debate+exposes+several+traditional+and+recent+contradictions+within+psychology.+Building+on+Bowers+and+Farvolden%2C+the+truth+of+recovered+memories+has+profoundly+different+meanings+for+therapeutic+versus+legal+settings.+Whereas+memory+can+be+distorted+during+the+process+of+retrieval%2C+certain+techniques+--+such+as+nondirective+writing+--+may+be+helpful+in+reducing+suggestive+influences+in+recall.+Ironically%2C+methods+which+have+been+found+to+produce+the+most+accurate+recollections+of+the+past+appear+only+subtly+different+from+those+that+yield+the+greatest+distortions.+The+recovered+memory+debate+must+ultimately+be+viewed+within+a+cultural+context%2C+both+in+terms+of+the+phenomenon+and+its+treatment.+Parallels+to+other+explanatory+and+therapeutic+fads+related+to+states+of+nonspecific+distress+are+discussed.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F641%2F1%2Fmemon.recov_mem.html&rft.identifier=++Pennebaker%2C+James+W.+and+Memon%2C+Amina++(1996)+Recovered+Memories+in+Context%3A+Thoughts+and+Elaborations+on+Bowers+and+Farvolden.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F641%2F