The Woman Who Couldn T Remember But Didn T Forget

Author : Walli F. Leff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Recovered memory
ISBN : 086534938X

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The Woman Who Couldn't Remember But Didn't Forget by Walli F. Leff Pdf

When results for her innovative wind power project show unprecedented productivity, windmill energy expert Sylvie Deroque hits the big time in the Los Angeles energy firm where she works. The next day her oilman colleague steals her client from her. Armed with facts, figures, and charm, Sylvie crashes a meeting between the two men to woo her client back. Inexplicably, just as she's on the verge of succeeding, she goes into a "strange state," grabs a security guard's gun, and shoots her rival and a member of her erstwhile client's firm. To reclaim her life, Sylvie must not only beat the attempted murder charge, she must recover her memory of the long-forgotten events from her childhood in Occupied Paris that propelled her to violence. She begins this critical journey with daring and determination, then a threat to her identity estranges her from those she loves. What will it take to set her to rights? Does she have the courage she needs to realize her dreams? WALLI F. LEFF, during her years in Los Angeles, saw how important the natural beauty of the environment was to well-being. A social psychologist, she taught in universities and did research on social influence and attitudes, then worked to establish corruption prevention measures in several New York City government agencies. She is the author, with Marilyn G. Haft, of "Time Without Work," and writes articles on psychology, science, cultural and political affairs, and travel.

Author : Jill Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416562524

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The Woman Who Can't Forget by Jill Price Pdf

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took place, as long as she heard about it that day. Her memories are like scenes from home movies, constantly playing in her head, backward and forward, through the years; not only does she make no effort to call her memories to mind, she cannot stop them. The Woman Who Can't Forget is the beautifully written and moving story of Jill's quest to come to terms with her extraordinary memory, living with a condition that no one understood, including her, until the scientific team who studied her finally charted the extraordinary terrain of her abilities. Her fascinating journey speaks volumes about the delicate dance of remembering and forgetting in all of our lives and the many mysteries about how our memories shape us. As we learn of Jill's struggles first to realize how unusual her memory is and then to contend, as she grows up, with the unique challenges of not being able to forget -- remembering both the good times and the bad, the joyous and the devastating, in such vivid and insistent detail -- the way her memory works is contrasted to a wealth of discoveries about the workings of normal human memory and normal human forgetting. Intriguing light is shed on the vital role of what's called "motivated forgetting"; as well as theories about childhood amnesia, the loss of memory for the first two to three years of our lives; the emotional content of memories; and the way in which autobiographical memories are normally crafted into an ever-evolving and empowering life story. Would we want to remember so much more of our lives if we could? Which memories do our minds privilege over others? Do we truly relive the times we remember most vividly, feeling the emotions that coursed through us then? Why do we forget so much, and in what ways do the workings of memory tailor the reality of what's actually happened to us in our lives? In The Woman Who Can't Forget, Jill Price welcomes us into her remarkable life and takes us on a mind-opening voyage into what life would be like if we didn't forget -- a voyage after which no reader will think of the magical role of memory in our lives in the same way again.

Author : Su Meck,Daniel de Visé
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451685824

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I Forgot to Remember by Su Meck,Daniel de Visé Pdf

"Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when she regained consciousness in the hospital the next day, she didn't know her own name. She didn't recognize a single family member or friend, she couldn't read or write or brush her teeth or use a fork--and she didn't have even a scrap of memory from her life up to that point. The fiercely independent and outspoken young woman she had been vanished completely. Most patients who suffer amnesia as a result of a head injury eventually regain their memories, but Su never did. After three weeks in the hospital she was sent back out into a world about which she knew nothing: What did it mean to be someone's wife? To be a mother? How did everyone around her seem to know what they were supposed to do or say at any given moment? Adrift in the chaos of mental data that most of us think of as everyday life, Su became an adept mimic, fashioning a self and a life out of careful observation and ironclad routine. She had no dreams for herself, no plans outside the ever-burgeoning daily to-do list of a stay-at-home mom. The Meck family left Texas to start over in Maryland, and told almost no one in their new life about Su's accident. Nearly twenty years would pass before Su understood the full extent of the losses she and her family suffered as a result of her injury. As a series of personally devastating events shattered the "normal" life she had worked so hard to build, Su realized that she would have to grow up all over again, and finally take control of the strange second life she had awoken into"--

Author : Sarah Hepola
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455554577

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Blackout by Sarah Hepola Pdf

A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure -- the sober life she never wanted. For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy? She apologized for things she couldn't remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin. Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead. A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure -- the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change. It's about giving up the thing you cherish most -- but getting yourself back in return.

Author : Linda Hoffman
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684568925

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He Can't Remember, She Can't Forget by Linda Hoffman Pdf

This book is my true and personal story. Only the names and places have been fictionalized. Memorial Day weekend 1998, my husband was in a motel room with his mistress when he had a stroke. That stroke set off a chain of events that would change our lives forever. A stroke, an affair – put these two together and you get a life–altering situation. What would you do? Other books by Linda Hoffman:The House at Mingo Pond – a psychological thrillerThe Adventures of Eli and Jake – a children's book

Author : Sue Halpern
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307407887

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Can't Remember What I Forgot by Sue Halpern Pdf

Behind the Scenes of Cutting-Edge Memory Research When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so “hot” that leaving through the front door of the lab would trigger the alarm. This was not the first time while researching Can’t Remember What I Forgot that Halpern had her head examined, nor would it be the last. Like many of us who have had a relative or friend succumb to memory loss, who are getting older, and who are hearing statistics about our own chances of falling victim to dementia, Halpern wanted to find out what the experts really knew, how close science is to a cure, to treatment, to accurate early diagnosis, and, of course, whether the crossword puzzles, sudokus, and ballroom dancing we’ve been told to take up can really keep us lucid or if they're just something to do before the inevitable overtakes us. Sharply observed and deeply informed, Can’t Remember What I Forgot is a book full of vital information and a solid dose of hope.

Author : Alan Cook
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452072357

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Forget to Remember by Alan Cook Pdf

Author : Ellie Holcomb
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781535991612

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Don't Forget to Remember by Ellie Holcomb Pdf

Do you ever forget to remember what's true? Sometimes remembering is hard to do! But in this lyrical tale, Ellie Holcomb celebrates creation’s reminders of God’s love, which surrounds us from sunrise to sunset, even on our most forgetful of days.

Author : Marianne J. Legato
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781594865275

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Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget by Marianne J. Legato Pdf

Why won't he ask for directions? Why does she always want to talk about the relationship? Why is it so hard for men and women to understand each other . . . and what can we do about it? These are the kinds of questions that are resolved at last in this fascinating book from the founder of gender medicine. Dr. Marianne Legato not only confirms that men and women are different, but she uncovers the neuroscientific reasons behind the age-old disputes between the sexes, while providing a groundbreaking, authoritative, and reader-friendly guide to resolving them.

Author : Daniel L. Schacter
Publisher : HMH
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547347455

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The Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts with vivid examples—case studies, literary excerpts, experimental evidence, and accounts of highly visible news events such as the O. J. Simpson verdict, Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony, and the search for the Oklahoma City bomber—he also delves into striking new scientific research, giving us a glimpse of the fascinating neurology of memory and offering “insight into common malfunctions of the mind” (USA Today). “Though memory failure can amount to little more than a mild annoyance, the consequences of misattribution in eyewitness testimony can be devastating, as can the consequences of suggestibility among pre-school children and among adults with ‘false memory syndrome’ . . . Drawing upon recent neuroimaging research that allows a glimpse of the brain as it learns and remembers, Schacter guides his readers on a fascinating journey of the human mind.” —Library Journal “Clear, entertaining and provocative . . . Encourages a new appreciation of the complexity and fragility of memory.” —The Seattle Times “Should be required reading for police, lawyers, psychologists, and anyone else who wants to understand how memory can go terribly wrong.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A fascinating journey through paths of memory, its open avenues and blind alleys . . . Lucid, engaging, and enjoyable.” —Jerome Groopman, MD “Compelling in its science and its probing examination of everyday life, The Seven Sins of Memory is also a delightful book, lively and clear.” —Chicago Tribune Winner of the William James Book Award

Author : JB Trepagnier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387518746

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Crow Girl by JB Trepagnier Pdf

Liam Collins wants to be a writer more than anything else. After unceremoniously being laid off from his job at the paper, he thinks he finally has time to write that book. As his writerÕs block continues, he spends his time gardening and brewing his own beer. One day, he notices someone has been stealing peas in his garden in the idyllic Irish countryside. Only meaning to scare them off, he accidentally shoots someone. Following them to the Hawthorn tree, there is a wailing girl up there dressed in strange, ripped clothing who doesnÕt appear to have the ability to speak except in strange noises. Curiosity wins out after he drops her off at the hospital and he goes back to visit her. This strange, wild girl cannot speak and doesnÕt know what food is when itÕs presented to her. Thinking she appeared in his tree as a shrieking banshee for a reason, Liam claims her and brings her home. He thinks he can help her and teach her to speak and she can help him by giving him the book he knows is inside him.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11335815

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Little Women; Or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott Pdf

Author : Nelson C. Dellis
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1631775677

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I Forgot Something (But I Can't Remember What It Was) by Nelson C. Dellis Pdf

Elephant is in a bit of a panic as he cannot remember something that he thinks is important. Wise Owl shows him some clever and unusual tricks to jog his memory.

Author : Deborah Raney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476737836

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Remember to Forget by Deborah Raney Pdf

One morning changed everything about her life But could it also set her free? Maggie Anderson Graphic designer Maggie Anderson has lived under her boyfriend's tyranny for nearly two years...until she's carjacked in New York. Will this terrifying experience be the end for Maggie -- or the beginning of a freedom greater than she dares imagine? To gain that freedom, she'll have to remember to forget everything about her old life... Trevor Ashlock is existing, day by day, in the little town of Clayburn, Kansas. Surrounded by too many painful reminders of all he's lost, he fills his time with work, trying desperately to forget. Then a compelling and lovely stranger shows up in Clayburn and turns Trevor's world upside down.

Author : Peter Triolo Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781475936995

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What the Church Forgot to Remember by Peter Triolo Jr. Pdf

Christianity has gone from orthodoxy to evangelical crusades, from great demonstrations of miracles to signs and wonders, and to the promoting of prosperity in the body of Christ. The ideals of honesty and fundamental truths have been replaced by what we think and feel. The truth has been reduced to whether or not it is relevant in our society. The mindset is if it feels right, do it, even if it is wrong. Moral stability has been replaced by anything goes. We have misplaced things important to Christ. In What the Church Forgot to Remember, author Peter Triolo Jr. presents the truth about the how and why of Christianity and provides a reminder to what should be close to our hearts regarding Jesus and His church. Through scriptural examples, Triolo shows how the truth can be found in the Bible through God's own words. What the Church Forgot to Remember reminds us that before there was time, God loved us and that love is everlasting. There's still time to change the fast-food mentality of what we want and get back to what God wants.