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Research Reveals Brain Has Biological Mechanism To Block Unwanted Memories 1/9/04 "For the first time, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Oregon have shown that a biological mechanism exists in the human brain to block unwanted memories. The findings, to be published Jan. 9 in the journal Science, reinforce Sigmund Freud's controversial century-old thesis about the existence of voluntary memory suppression. "The big news is that we've shown how the human brain blocks an unwanted memory, that there is such a mechanism and it has a biological basis," said Stanford psychology Professor John Gabrieli, a co-author of the paper titled "Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories." "It gets you past the possibility that there's nothing in the brain that would suppress a memory - that it was all a misunderstood fiction." The experiment showed that people are capable of repeatedly blocking thoughts of experiences they don't want to remember until they can no longer retrieve the memory, even if they want to, Gabrieli explained." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040109072004.htm
Convicted Molester Wants To Clear Name Cites evidence seen in film By Chau Lam 1/9/04 "Seeking to clear his name, a former Great Neck man filed court papers yesterday to vacate his 1988 sex abuse convictions because he claims some of the boys who said they were molested did so after they were hypnotized and others did so after they were repeatedly questioned by police." "However, the judge who heard the Friedman case, the detectives who worked on it and Jesse Friedman's attorney at the time said filmmaker Andrew Jarecki's examination was incomplete and biased. Critics pointed out that Jarecki downplayed the fact that Jesse Friedman and his father pleaded guilty. Jesse Friedman even detailed the abuse during a 1989 interview broadcast on national television." ""In one instance, Det. Wallene Jones, who was talking to a member of the team making the documentary in 2001, recalled that she and her partner, William Hatch, visited one student on 15 separate occasions before the child finally said he was sexually abused, according to the motion papers. However, Jones said the abuse caused the boy tremendous trauma and it took that many interviews for her and Hatch to get him to open up." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lifrie093618796jan09,0,7650540.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines
Boys Choir Leader Faces Ouster Over Failure to Act After Abuse by Alan Feuer and Robin Pogrebin 1/9/04 "It was the spring of 2001 when an employee of the Boys Choir of Harlem went to Walter J. Turnbull, the founder and director of the world-renowned group, with shocking news: a 14-year-old student in the choir's academy had just accused the school's chief counselor of having molested him repeatedly for years. The police were not called. Afraid for his beloved institution, Dr. Turnbull chose instead to meet with the boy, investigators for the city say. The boy asked that the counselor be dismissed. "You don't make that decision," investigators say Dr. Turnbull replied. The counselor remained, and the school did not investigate, investigators say. That silence was eventually broken when the student's mother went to the authorities that fall. The counselor was arrested, tried, convicted and sent to prison on a two-year term for sexual abuse."
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