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"When the first few survivors of sexual abuse
by Father James Porter told of their memories, Porter denied having sexually
abused any of them. And he had numerous enablers and co-abusers who supported
his denial, including many authority figures in the Catholic Church. Over
time, 130 of his victims had spoken up, and in 1993 he admitted to having
abused at least 28 innocent children. We could even say that Porter and abusers
like him, who are dissociated from their own pain or who deny their behavior,
are the ones with the real 'false memory syndrome.'' -Charles Whitfield, M.D., in Memory and Abuse The Healing Tree: Shelter from the Storm A forum for survivors in which to give and receive support in a caring environment. Parc: Maintains Chattanooga Living Memorial Garden in Tennessee as a living memorial to persons who have been subjected to sadistic abuse (SA), ritualized torture (RT) and invasive, nonconsensual experimentation (INE) Survivorship For survivors of ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture, and their allies. |
"The conflict between knowing and not knowing, speech and silence, remembering and forgetting, is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. This conflict is manifest in the individual disturbances of memory, the amnesias and hypeamnesias [inabilities to forget], of traumatized people. It is manifest also on a social level, in persisting debates over the historical reality of atrocities that have been documented beyond any reasonable doubt.
It obtains in this country with respect to
the private crimes of sexual and domestic violence. " Herman J. L Herman. "The
systematic study of psychological trauma (therefore) depends on the
support of a political movement. ....The study of war trauma becomes
legitimate only in a context that challenges the sacrifice of young men
in war. The study of trauma in sexual and domestic life becomes legitimate
only in a context that challenges the subordination of women and children.
Advances in the field occur only when they are supported by a political
movement powerful enough to legitimate an alliance between investigators
and patients and to counteract the ordinary social processes of silencing
and denial. In the absense of strong political movements for human rights,
the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active
process of forgetting. Repression, dissociation, and denial are phenomena
of social as well as individual consciousness."-Judith
Herman, M.D.in Trauma and Recovery 96 Cases of Verified Recovered Memories- from The Recovered Memory Project :Project Director Professor Ross E. Cheit
Findings suggestive of True and Untrue Traumatic Memory False Memory Syndrome vs. Lying Perpetrator Syndrome: The Big Lie Response to 2003 Media Reports on Loftus' Bugs Bunny Study Film undermines efforts to fight child abuse Landmarks in Child Abuse Prevention and Recovery The Spectrum of Dissociative Disorders The Evidence for Dissociative Amnesia :A Review of 100 years of Research |
"The study of psychological
trauma has a curious history-one of episodic amnesia. Periods of active
investigation have alternated with periods of oblivion. Repeatedly in
the past century, similar lines of inquiry have been taken up and abruptly
abandoned, only to be rediscovered much later. Classic documents of fifty
or on hundred years ago often read like contemporary works. This intermittent amnesia is not the result of the ordinary changes in fashion.....rather, the subject provokes such intense controversy that it periodically becomes anathema. To study psychological trauma is to come face to face both with human vulnerability in the natural world and with the capacity for evil in human nature. When the events are natural disasters.....those who bear witness sympathize readily with the victim. But when the traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. "- Judith Herman, M.D., in Trauma and Recovery The Sidran Institute One of the Nation's leading providers of Education and resources on traumatic stress, training and consulting on treating and managing traumatic stress, information and advocacy on current issues related to trauma, and Publications on traumatic stress |
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