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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
Ellen Barry
JBS has long been embroiled in scandal. During Trump’s first term, the Justice Department fined [JBS](https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020-254), [JBS’s parent company](https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/jf-investimentos-sa-pleads-guilty-and-agrees-pay-over-256-million-resolve-criminal-foreign), and [two brothers](https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020-254) who control the parent company $280 million for bribing approximately 1,800 Brazilian officials.
Every President Is Friendly to the Meat Industry — But Trump Is Taking It to Another Level
Kenny Torrella
During the 2010s, the body-positivity movement occurred in response to a decade of cruel, ritualized self-hatred. What had started with Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty in 2004 gained momentum as more scientific evidence emerged that diets simply did not work. In 2016, the plus-sized model Ashley Graham appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue, the same year that Mattel began selling Barbies with different body types and skin colors.
Girl on Girl
Sophie Gilbert
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