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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hobo who wrote (1812)	1/20/2001 1:30:51 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Hi toscano, That was a very good post on childhood sexual abuse. Thanks for finding the links. "the issue of memory" that i could not access... i would have liked to read more on that, as i find interesting how the mind seems to deal with this sort of thing, i assume it involves some sort of memory loss in order to forget the event. therefore making the research and prevention of the event, even more difficult. The issue of memory of traumatic childhood events is the focus of very heated debate in the psychological/psychiatric community. In the early nineties, when there was a surge of interest in, and diagnoses of multiple personality disorder (which usually has as its cause early childhood sexual abuse by a caregiver), attempts were made to unlock these repressed memories through the use of techniques like hypnosis. Later research found that hypnosis, which is a state of heightened suggestibility, in some cases led to the construction of "memories" of traumatic events that had not occured. This is unfortunate, because, IMO, hypnosis can be a very useful tool in the right hands and under the right circumstances.