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Cannabis on the other hand effects a “cascade” of neurotransmitters in a mechanism that is only recently becoming understood: “I don’t think there’s any of the top 12 neurotransmitters that aren’t effected by cannabis.”
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The Quietus
I was not one of those heterosexual women who said they were attracted to other women. Who were these women?
Then came what’s known as the “memory wars” — a pushback from leading psychiatrists against therapy that encouraged patients to unearth memories of sexual abuse. The criticism often zeroed in on Dr. van der Kolk, who served as an expert witness in high-profile cases, and Dr. Herman, whose work on dissociation was regularly cited by defenders of repressed-memory therapy.
Dr. Herman shrugged off this critique as “predictable,” the same resistance that Vietnam War veterans and rape victims had encountered when they came forward. “You know, history is a dialectical process,” she said. “When you have a movement that challenges the power structure, you’re going to have a backlash.”
Some clinicians did go overboard, Dr. van der Kolk said. They “started talking about satanic ritual abuse, kids being sacrificed in altars,” he said. “It got a little bit weird. Judy and I never went with that crowd. But they were part of our crowd.”
She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her. - The New York Times
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