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To: Ilaine who wrote (35773)	4/24/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

That's sad Cobalt. Those "therapists" have done a lot of damage. I never have liked when us siblings were at odds, sometimes for years. Right now the two oldest sister's are not speaking. I talk to both, but they won't talk to each other. If you knew the reasons you would laugh your head off. S SR

To: Ilaine who wrote (35773)	4/25/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<< Same thing happened to my youngest sister. She was convinced that my father molested her, and the rest of us, and we were just in denial. >> My sister was in group therapy, and was the only female in the group who had not 'recovered' memories about childhood molestation by their fathers. At one point, she came to me and said, "Do you think it is possible that Daddy molested us?" I said, "Why in the world would you even entertain such an idea? You know Daddy!", to which she replied, "But I have all the symptoms!" It was so obviously a disappointment to her that she couldn't make the same claim that the others were making. It's to her credit that, tempted as she was by the psychological and social rewards such a claim would offer, she acknowledged that it was a silly idea. The following happened in that therapy group: My sister told me absolutely ghastly stories of sexual abuse and torture reported by one of her group members, whom I shall call Alice. Both of Alice's parents were involved in the accusations, which were treated in the group as fact. Cutlery was also involved. At one point, my sister mentioned a trip Alice had made back home for the holidays. I said, "You mean these people tortured her with knives and forks for years, and she goes home to spend Christmas with them?" Yes, she did. My sister was angry at my skepticism about Alice's reports of abuse. Okay, so one day, conversationally, my sister mentions that Alice had asked their therapist, Dr. P, for a referral to a gynecologist. Dr. P had given her a referral, but had, he (ethically dubiously, I'd say) told my sister, in one of their private sessions, that he had called to warn the gynecologist never to be alone in a room with Alice. So I said, "You mean that Dr. P's position is that whatever Alice says about her mother and father is to be taken as gospel, but when it comes to finding her trustworthy and reliable where any accusation she might make about a colleague of his is concerned, that's a different story?" I think this is another case of agendas ruling. My sister's doctor was in the forefront of the recovered memory movement. I'm sure that he believed his patients when it it suited him to do so. He had a thriving practice, mostly of recovered memory patients. But when the reputation of a colleague could be damaged, his personal agenda changed, and his assessment of the reliability of that patient changed, too.