This edited collection brings together the perspectives of a broad spectrum of experts who reflect on Freud's Seduction Theory, psychoanalysis, and the reality of child abuse through the work of Jeffrey Masson.

Warwick Middleton has been the Foundation Director of the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital, for over 20 years. He is a pioneer researcher in the area of ongoing incest during adulthood; he chairs the Cannan Institute; and is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He currently holds Professorial appointments with the University of Queensland, Australia, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Martin J. Dorahy is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. His published work has primarily explored cognitive and emotional underpinnings of dissociation and dissociative disorders. His clinical work is focused on the adult outcomes of abuse and neglect.

Foreword Preface 1. Background to "The Assault on Truth" 2. Sándor Ferenczi, Robert Fliess, Florence Rush, and Jeffrey Masson 3. Child Sexual Abuse and Psychoanalytic Theory: Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi's Childhood Seduction 4. The Perpetuation of Deliberate and Inadvertent Insensitivities within Psychoanalysis: Origins, Rhymes, and Reasons 5. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson revisited: The seduction controversies about reality versus fantasy 6. Power, courage, trauma, betrayal, and memory: An interview with Professor Jennifer Freyd 7. The Memories of Millions 8. Another Suppression of Incest and Its Victims? 9. To Believe or not believe: The assault on the truth, the mind, and the body 10. Grappling with Truth: Psychotherapy and The Assault on Truth 11. The Assault on Truth in the Academy: Talk Therapy and the Social Control of Women 12. Has 'The Assault on Truth' had any influence on today's mental health services? Afterword Postscript