Beliefs and therapeutic practices related to traumatic memories among Italian cognitive behavioral therapists and traine...
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Investigating the Memory Reports of Retractors Regarding Abuse
status: published
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting
Recent work suggests that the debate surrounding repressed memory and traumatic forgetting continues today. To further investigate this debate, we performed preregistered scientometric analyses on publications on the debate about repressed memory to provide information about its bibliometric evolution. Furthermore, we reviewed these publications to...
False remembering in real life: James Ost's contributions to memory psychology
This special issue honours James Ost's (1973-2019) contributions to our understanding of false and distorted remembering. In our editorial, we introduce some of James' distinctive research themes including the experiences of people who retract "recovered" memories, social (e.g., co-witness and interviewer influence) and personality influences on fa...
The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Long-Forgotten Trauma
Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has been at the heart of one of the most heated debates in modern psychology. These so-called memory wars originated in the 1990s, and many scholars have assumed that they are over. We demon...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Outcomes and Mediators.
Published in Journal of traumatic stress
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly comorbid with personality disorder (PD). We evaluated whether comorbid PTSD has a negative effect on patients' ability to benefit from evidence-based psychological treatments for PD and tested potential mediators of any effect. The effect of PTSD on self-harm and borderline PD symptoms was evaluated in...
Trauma and dissociation in obese patients with and without binge eating disorder: A case - control study
© 2018 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the presence of childhood trauma, psychological and somatoform dissociation in obese (OB) and overweight patients with and without binge eating disorder (BED). In total, 34 patients with...
Psychological consequences of early global deprivation an overview of findings from the English & Romanian adoptees stud...
The English & Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study follows children who spent their first years of life in extremely depriving Romanian institutions before they were adopted by families in the UK. The ERA study constitutes a "natural experiment" that allows the examination of the effects of radical environmental change from a profoundly depriving institut...
The impact of attachment and depression symptoms on multiple risk behaviors in post-war adolescents in northern Uganda
A history of abuse and operative delivery--results from a European multi-country cohort study.
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Published in PloS one
The main aim of this study was to assess whether a history of abuse, reported during pregnancy, was associated with an operative delivery. Secondly, we assessed if the association varied according to the type of abuse and if the reported abuse had been experienced as a child or an adult. The Bidens study, a cohort study in six European countries (B...
