Lenore Terr je autorkou s rozsiahlymi skúsenosťami a výskumom v oblasti traumy a pamäti. Jej priekopnícka práca s traumatizovanými deťmi, vrátane prípadu unesených detí z Chowchilly, ju etablovala ako poprednú svetovú autoritu v tomto odbore. Prostredníctvom svojho písania zdieľa hlboké porozumenie psychologickým dopadom traumatických zážitkov a ponúka čitateľom vhľad do zložitosti ľudskej psychiky.
In 1976 twenty–six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.
The debate rages in magazines and newspapers ranging from Vanity Fair to The New Yorker, from Mother Jones to the New York Times - can a long-forgotten memory of a horrible event like murder or sexual abuse suddenly resurface years later? Proponents of so-called false memory syndrome say it's impossible.