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Whether by the exit polls, the AP/VoteCast data or the pre-election polls, Republicans now outnumber Democrats in America for the first time in decades.
Fwd: The Tilt: A Review of 2024 Polling
Nicole Mark
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
I expected a mental health system built on compassion and respect for the time and minds of the mentally ill.
The Mental Illness Drunk Tank
The Unfleshly Fête
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