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Papers by Roland Littlewood

Anthropology & Medicine, Sep 2, 2013

British Journal of Psychiatry, Sep 1, 1990

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British Journal of Psychiatry, 1991

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

Anthropology Today, Feb 1, 1986

11. Letter, G.Elliot-Smith to Edwin Embree (former Secretary, then Director of Division of Studie... more 11. Letter, G.Elliot-Smith to Edwin Embree (former Secretary, then Director of Division of Studies, RF), 12/1/26. File 401AD, University College, Anthropology, 1924, 1926-1927. RF, RAC. 12. Letter, Elliot-Smith to Embree, 3/14/27. File 401AD, University College, Anthropology, 19143, 1926-1927. RF, RAC. 13. See George W. Stocking, Jr., ed., Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1983), and Ernest Gellner, 'Malinowski and the dialectic of past and present'. Times Literary Supplement, June 7, 1985. 14. B.Malinowski. Practical Anthropology. Africa, 1929, 2:22-38, p.22. 15. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, 'Memorandum on Anthropological Research: 11/17/30. Transmitted with a letter, Radcliffe-Brown to Day, 11/11/30. Folder 25, 910 Programme and Policy Anthropology Cultural, 1931-1956. RF, 3, 910, 3, RACV. It is worth examining the Memorandum in some detail as this document is the earliest clear statement from RadcliffeBrown about his perspective. His views were influential inside the RF. 16. Radcliffe-Brown, 'Memorandum: pp.3-4. RadcliffeBrown's later protestation against being labelled as a functionalist does seem rather weak in light of this document. See A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, 'On Social Structure, Presidential Adress, Journal of the RoyalAnthropological Institute, 1940, 70:1-12; and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, 'Functionalism: A Protes: American Anthropologist, 1949, 51: 320-323. 17. For example, Richard Thurnwald, Economics in Primitive Communities (London: Oxford University Press, 1932); C.G. Brown and A. McD. Hutt, Anthropology in Action (London: Oxford University Press, 1938); Monica Hunter, Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contacts with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa (London: Oxford University Press, 1936); I. Schapera, A Handbook of TswanalLaws and Custom (London: Oxford University Press 1938); and Audrew Richards, Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia (London: Oxford University Press, 1939). The Institute cooperated with the Medical Research Council in a coordinated programme of nutritional research work in the Empire In addition to Richard's book, the IIALC also devoted a special edition of Africa to problems of nutrition. See Africa, 1936, IX, 2. 18. Lucy Mair, ed., Methods of Study of Culture Contact (Oxford University Press, 1938). 19. Audrey I. Richards. The Village Census in the Study of Culture Contact. Africa, 1935, 8:20-23, p.21.

Psychological Medicine, Feb 1, 1987

Routledge eBooks, Jul 1, 2016

Anthropological Theory, Jun 1, 2001

Transcultural Psychiatry, Jun 1, 2009

Aliens and Alienists, 2005

Transcultural Psychiatry, 2018

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1985

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1986

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1994

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1999

This book, written by a member of the British Psychological Society working party set up in 1993 ... more This book, written by a member of the British Psychological Society working party set up in 1993 to examine scientific and professional issues relating to recovered memory, injects some welcome sanity into what has become a confused and troubled area. It describes the emotive exchanges that have taken place between those aligned with the false memory movement and psychotherapists, and it presents the scientific and clinical evidence for and against the possibility that psychotherapists can induce in their clients an erroneous belief that they were sexually abused in childhood. The book is impressive in its breadth of presentation. The early chapters deal extensively with the academic, clinical and empirical literature on memory and memory disorders. It describes how false memories can be experimentally induced. It offers neurophysiological reasons why early experiences cannot be remembered, but provides a convincing example of a boy who seemed able to remember his own birth. It reviews recent reports of reduced hippocampal volume, as measured by magnetic resonance imaging, in subjects who have experienced prolonged or repeated severe stress, including women who were repeatedly abused in childhood. It concludes that memories undoubtedly can be actively inhibited, but points out that both abusers and the abused are capable of repression. The later chapters are more psychotherapeutic. In a review of Freud's reported cases, Mollon concludes that Freud was not, as some have maintained, a 'recovered memory therapist'. He wrote, "To assume that psychoanalysts search for buried memories, analogous to lost videorecordings, is to misunderstand profoundly the analytic endeavour . . . The objects of repression, in most of Freud's examples, are desires, feelings fantasies and thoughts". However, it is not unheard of for clients to recover memories of abuse during psychotherapy and then turn angrily upon their abusers. In such cases, therapists have a role in help ing them to come to terms with these memories. The final chapter comprises concise sections on characteristics of early traumatised patients and notes that may be given to them; factors contributing to false memories; and the principles of treatment. There are about 450 references. The insights of this book extend beyond recovered memory to the wider practice of psychotherapy.

Pathology and Identity, 1993