Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Exposing Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors
• Misinformation/Disinformation About Child Sexual Abuse
• Crisis or Creation? A Systematic Examination of False Memory Syndrome
• The Legend of Robert Halsey
• Forensic Issues
• The False Memory Defense: Using Disinformation and Junk Science In and Out of Court
• (Mis)Representations of the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Courts
• Long Term Sequelae of Child Sexual Abuse and Clinical Implications
• Science or Propaganda? An Examination of Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998)
• A Critical Appraisal of the 1998 Meta-Analytic Review of Child Sexual Abuse Outcomes Reported by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman
• The Real Controversy About Child Sexual Abuse Research: Contradictory Findings and Critical Issues Not Addressed by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman in Their 1998 Outcomes Meta-Analysis
• Implications of the Memory Controversy for Clinical Practice: An Overview of Treatment Recommendations and Guidelines
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Charles L. Whitfield, MD, FASAM, is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a member of the Leadership Council on Mental Health, Justice, and the Media, and on the faculty of the Rutgers Institute on Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey., Joyanna Silberg, PhD, is a clinician at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore, Maryland, and is Executive Vice President of the Leadership Council for Mental Health, Justice, and the Media. She is also President of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation., Pau, Jay Fink, MD, a psychiatrist in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is President of the Leadership Council for Mental Health, Justice, and the Media, and is a past president of the American Psychiatric Association.