I appreciated the previous reviewer's comment: "Ziggy on the cover - enough said". In other words, putting a cartoon on a serious book means you're in denial. That kind of ad hominem smear is really typical of True Believers in 'memory work'. Part of their worldview is that they can always tell (human) books by their covers. Specifically, they believe they know the underlying cause of any anxiety attack, off-color remark, depressed mood, nightmare, or other nonspecific symptom that any adult has in our society: Repressed memories of sexual abuse. As Bass & Davis so tellingly acknowledged in earlier editions of The Courage To Heal, in "hundreds of cases" they had never encountered a single woman who "suspected she might have been abused, explored it, and determined that she wasn't." Think about that illogic for a moment! In the newest edition they begrudgingly and very belatedly admit that counselors have sometimes "pushed clients to acknowledge abuse...that did not occur." What Bass and Davis sadly still fail to acknowledge is that memory is so highly suggestible that even without overt "pushing", false memories of abuse can emerge in any suggestible context. I don't know what happened in the Freyd family in particular, but regardless of their personal history, to ignore the MOUNTAIN of evidence indicating malleability of memory (summarized here by Freyd senior, elsewhere more expertly by Ofshe, Loftus, and others) is >real< denial.