TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Memory and psychoanalysis: a new look at infantile amnesia and transference
JO  - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A1  - Lewis, M.
SP  - 405
EP  - 417
VL  - 34
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This article reexamines the psychoanalytic concepts of infantile amnesia and transference in the light of certain findings derived from neurobiological research, information-processing theory, child development research, cognitive-developmental theory, and, more speculatively, evolutionary theory concerning memory. METHOD: Relevant developments from recent research in the neurosciences, and psychopathological phenomena in two psychiatric disorders--posttraumatic stress disorder and child abuse--in which memory changes are of critical importance, are first reviewed briefly. Four alternative hypotheses for infantile amnesia and three for transference are then derived from this review. RESULTS: The hypotheses discussed provide plausible alternative explanations for at least part of the phenomena classically subsumed in the psychoanalytic concepts of infantile amnesia and transference. CONCLUSIONS: Neurobiological, information-processing, developmental shifts, cognitive-developmental, and evolutionary findings and theories provide alternative hypotheses for infantile amnesia and transference that suggest a need for revisions and redefinitions for these two psychoanalytic concepts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0890-8567
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -