#2 BGLass | 2011-06-13 10:16
Sorry so long but---
would add to BBG, as hard as usually am on rc: these cases can't be viewed without knowing what has been done in psychotherapy industry, especially with false memory implantation, since some Priest-cases/ memories emerged during such therapies. False Memory Syndrome Foundation's archive of cases used to be good. http://www.fmsfonline.org/ At rush northshore med in chicago, the Bennett Braun case, after he mangled a client's psyche in the hospital, for instance, was 10.6 million OUT OF COURT, (for false memory implantation).
There was a McMartin splash in 80s, but few outsiders read, in depth, (or have training to do so, since material is so sick and convoluted) the leading therapy methods that create false memory; Freudian concepts of denial, (client/patient does not want to be well, so the hero shrink fights them, etc.), and transference (whatever they are saying is in reaction, not to the reality of how they are being abused by the shrink, but to them replaying some past scene of abuse in their own life), also abreaction, (role playing the past) and so on.
"multiple personality disorder" (get real) was renamed DID, (dissociative identity disorder), put in the DSM, and is now TAUGHT in rape crisis centers: so "trauma" (trauma theory feeds into this), like sex abuse, is so violent it leads to "splitting off" memories of the abuse (the supposed rationale for why clients only remember years later), this is different from the previous freudian idea "repression," and the shrink's job is now to "recover" these lost, split off, abuse memories; it's also taught in public arenas (like rape centers) that this trauma (sex abuse) leads to having multiple personality disorder. In one case i know of, a rape center was having ALL people who came to them answer pages-long forms about whether they had "lost time," etc. (anxious to substantiate this diagnosis).
A good primer is Jeffery Maisson's Against Therapy, harvard analyst who dropped out. Colin Ross, Lawrence Hedges, etc, Tana Dineen's manufacturing victims, is a popular toned book, Victims of memory, by a dad falsely accused of abuse, etc.-- any normal person would see many "case studies" as the abuse of some vulnerable client in a dark room by a freak on a power trip. meantime, times to sue were shortened by courts. Also: advent of "body-centered therapies" that promote physical contact with clients were introduced (stats of sex during therapies are far higher than most know); the "body work" therapies sexualize the health care scene.
...add to that fuzzy laws surrounding licensing, the use of t.v. (keith ablow, etc.) to create a market for the experiences, etc. Many case studies create a "how-to" in regards to implanting memories, brainwashing at its finest.
Such things happen, and a lot. One of Martin Luther's complaints even. But false-memory industry muddies the water in these "sex scandals."
All this said: it is STILL US --WHITES-- who do these freak therapies, too. (mostly Lutherans seem to have attempted to bring forth antidote in Cognitive Behavioral therapies or Jungian analysis---methods that counteract by denying use of questionable tactics, etc.)
The rcc sensibility does still hold that heretics can be persecuted, in some manner--- that one has a right to overstep boundaries of another person, by any means even, in order to change HOW THEY THINK. That their version is the only one right version of reality. (Quakers are never going to be heroes in exorcism movies).
Once the wordist template is in a person (and they are taught it is good behavior to change the minds of heretics by any means necessary) it's easily transferred onto ANY OTHER SCENE: eg, like war: Our bombings of other countries TO HELP THEM ---and we are always helping them--- are even called "missions." (Again, this theme of killing to heal them).
So these are the same: war interrogation, therapy interrogations, religion interrogations, exorcisms, political thought reform, etc.--- and movies about them all have exactly the same plot and same dialogue, if you listen.
Taking power over another's internal Realities is the issue. Forced conversions/ highly coerced thought reform.
Sex abuse charges--- came in vogue again, along with other codifications of the body, like the gender stuff. The main game is talking about it. Making it a public focus so it can be controlled. No one really cares what you DO, only that they know about it, that you talk about it, that your privacy is gone by your own self-gabbing, etc.
One thing I won't feed is referring to "the church." the catholic community is only ONE voice among christians, none of whom believe rc have ANY right to name them, and certainly not as "heretics."
This one change--- never repeating "the church," will do more to change this depth heresy-meme implantation than anything else. If everyone simply refused this phrase, ---this tiny one phrase "thee church"--- every single time it was uttered, and said exactly what I have just said: In your opinion, I'm a heretic...
Or: the catholic community is one among christians and other groups... it would have an impact.
But you have never never heard this corrected on t.v.---
"I don't know anything about 'thee" church, (or even "the medieval church") but do acknowledge the roman religious community as one among many, so to privilege it with the article "the" is just simply inaccurate and wrong and a disservice to so many others who are not heretics in their opinions. In your opinion, I'm a heretic....
The heretic meme is a big one. Anyway, this is sort of like referring to all of Islam as Shia or something. The calipahte or something, would never include anything but shia. So all other muslims would cease to exist, essentially, and be like the girl in the exorcist.