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Professor uncovers the nature of memories - Associate Professor Michael Anderson recently published a new study of what the brain does when a person forgets By Caron Alarab 1/14/03 "A University researcher is receiving international attention this week for a recent experiment exploring why people forget. With a team of Stanford researchers, Associate Professor of psychology Michael Anderson found people can use certain brain regions to block memories just as they do to control physical actions. "It's no longer possible to say that human beings can't actively forget," said Anderson, one of the nation's leading memory researchers. "Our research demystifies the idea of memory suppression." The findings, which were published in the Jan. 9 issue of Science magazine, support Sigmund Freud's controversial century-old theory about the existence of voluntary memory suppression. For the experiment, Anderson recruited Stanford researcher John Gabrieli and the two co-wrote the Science article "Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories." http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/01/14/40056a8caf1ec
Shine the Light - Sexual Abuse and Healing in the Jewish Community by Rachel Lev has a variety of contributing authors, exploring different contexts of abuse. This book also has information on memory "Important parts of the story may be missing, and survivors may have difficulty putting the pieces together to form a complete narrative with an accurate time sequence...although traumatic childhood memories are deeply engraved, they are not stored or retrieved in the same way as ordinary memories. Many survivors have a period of amnesia during which they have no recollection of having been abused. In a careful follow-up study of two hundred women with documented childhood histories of sexual abuse, one in three did not remember the abuse twenty years later." p. 84 (originally from "Backtalk" Mother Jones - March/April 1993 p, 3 -4) http://www.shine-the-light.com/ Northeastern University Press, Boston, Mass. www.nupress.neu.edu
The Nurture and Care of the Future Master Race by Sigrid Chamberlain (The Journal of Psychohistory 31 (3) Winter 2004 "Frequently the question is asked whether Hitler, or the Nazis, were "normal" (Browning) or merely "banally evil" (Arendt)....DeMause shows in his book, The Emotional Life of Nations that "a country's propensity to go to war is unrelated to its economic development, its technological abilities, or even its military capabilities." (p. 140) "At the end of the nineteenth century in Germany it was virtually impossible to find a person who had not been beaten as a child. These beatings often took place with canes, whips or sticks. German children were often beaten unconscious, as was the case with the child Adolf Hitler. (pp. 193f)" "DeMause also observes the following: Because those societies that have the harshest child-rearing practices have been shown to produce low-self esteem adults who have the highest incidence of murder, suicide and war, the study of human violence can most fruitfully begin with examining the findings of clinicians who have closely interviewed murderers and determined their motives. Both statistically and clinically, researchers have found that violent adults have only one thing in common " poor child-rearing." (P. 142f) (article pages p 367 - 368) The Journal of Psychohistory, 140 Riverside Drive, Suite 14H, NY, NY 10024, e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], http:www.psychohistory.com
Popular Science - Mind Over Machine "Some monkey business in a Duke University lab suggests we'll soon be able to move artificial limbs, control robotic soldiers, and communicate across thousands of miles - using nothing but our thoughts. by Carl Zimmer February 2004" http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,576464,00.html
Global Kiddie Porn Ring Busted Newark, N.J., 1/15/04 "(CBS/AP) Federal officials on Thursday announced they had cracked a Belarus-based international child pornography ring with arrests in France, Spain and the United States. The cases stem from an Internet processor of Web site subscriptions in Minsk, Belarus, which collected fees for memberships to child pornography Web sites that brought in millions of dollars, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. An executive with a Florida company has pleaded guilty in the case....About two dozen people in New Jersey and 20 others around the United States have been charged with downloading child pornography, including a doctor, a minister and a teacher, the office said." ""Regpay Co. Inc. allegedly processed nearly $3 million in subscription fees by persons seeking pornography ââ much of it being child pornography," Ashcroft said." "The investigation is part of Operation Falcon, aimed at severing commercial support of child pornography. As of Tuesday, $800,000 in sales proceeds has been seized and 160 cases initiated, the Justice Department said." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/15/national/main593548.shtml
Some bishops release 50-year recaps of clergy sexual abuse By Catholic News Service Washington (CNS) - Several U.S. bishops recently released summaries of clergy sexual abuse allegations in their dioceses since 1950." http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040114.htm
Update - Volume 16, Number 6, 2003 Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know Part 1 of 2 By Erika Rivera Ragland & Hope Fields "The late Dr. Richard Gardner, a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, coined Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) in 1985, after noticing a "disorder" among patients within his private practice." ""The theory of PAS is based in part on the notion that, within custody disputes, there is a high incidence of false abuse allegations....To the contrary, the available research suggests that false allegation rates are not significantly high. For example, a 1990 study by Thoennes and Tjaden (Thoennes & Tjaden, The Extent, Nature and Validity of Sexual Abuse Allegation in Custody/Visitation Disputes, Child Abuse and Neglect 1990, 14:151-163) evaluated 9,000 divorces in 12 states and found that sexual abuse allegations were made in less than 2 percent of the contested divorces involving child custody. Within this group, it appears false allegations occurred in approximately 5% to 8% of cases. This study is one of the most comprehensive and least subject to bias and sampling problems, since its sample is so large and representative of the population of those divorcing with custody and visitation disputes." ""At best, PAS is a nondiagnostic "syndrome" that only explains the behavior of the child and the mother when there is a known false allegation. It is a courtroom diagnosis befitting adversaries involved in legal sparring. It is not capable of lending itself to hard data or inclusion in the forthcoming DSM-V. In short, PAS is an untested theory that, unchallenged, can have far-reaching consequences for children seeking protection and legal vindication in courts of law." http://www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/update_volume_16_number_6_2003.html
Update - Volume 16, Number 7, 2003 Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know Part 2 of 2 By Hope Fields & Erika Rivera Ragland "PAS is an unproven theory that can threaten the integrity of the criminal justice system and the safety of abused children. Prosecutors should educate themselves about PAS and be prepared to argue against its admission in court. In cases where PAS testimony is admitted, it is a prosecutor''s responsibility to educate the judge and jury about the shortfalls of this theory. As more criminal courts refuse to admit PAS evidence, more protection will be afforded to victims of sexual abuse in our court system." http://www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/update_volume_16_number_7_2003.html
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