Vital Memory and Affect : Living with a Difficult Past (Hardcover)

1. Preface 2. The seven virtues of vital memory 3. The expanded view of memory 4. Memory and life space: affect, forgetting and ethics 5. Feeling an ambivalent past: Survivors of child sexual abuse 6. Managing the memories of others: Adoptive parents and their children 7. Remembering with, through and for others: Surviving the 2005 London Bombings 8. Forgetting who you were: The forensic psychiatric unit 9. Recollection in later life: The reminiscence museum 10. Ordinary people living with a difficult past