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On the Corrective Emotional Experience
In the era of Freud and psychoanalysis the linchpin of the therapy was the analysis of transference: how the patient responds to the doctor and (counter transference) how the doctor reacts to the patient. The whole idea was to change the patient through a corrective emotional relationship. Helping her to be more independent, not rely for advice or love and guidance from the doctor. Now decades later, that notion of the corrective emotional experience has gained many adherents. It is still in essence the analysis of transference.

Their theory is the following: it is not enough to relive early trauma, you must follow it with a corrective experience that will allow the patient to make progress and change. They believe that allowing the patient to wallow in pain only reinforces neurosis.

Depression, Thyroid and Menopause
As a psychoneuroendocrinologist, I have over 35 years of experience diagnosing and treating depression, anxiety, thyroid and adrenal disorders,
menopausal and perimenopausal depression, osteoporosis, and
nutritional imbalances.

Clinical Relevance

Many patients, whether medical patients or psychiatric patients, feel they
are receiving suboptimal care and feel their hormones are somehow playing
a role in their illness, and yet this is commonly ignored in their treatment.
More: http://www.psychoneuroendocrinology.com/

escape from the fog of admiration - insights about the true self
a response to Alice Miller
by Barbara Rogers

more: http://www.screamsfromchildhood.com/escape_admiration.html

Scotland
Adult survivors of Child Abuse

Being abused as a child may have serious and long-lasting effects on a person. Such effects can include: Loss of confidence, dignity and self respect
The impact of sexual abuse can range from no apparent effects to very severe ones.
Being abused as a child may have serious and long-lasting effects on a person. Such effects can include:
read more: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/71030-adult-survivors-of-child-abuse/

Domestic violence and rape exposed
Published on: 1/3/09. by TONY BEST
"EPIDEMIC". THAT'S the word social scientists, human rights advocates and law enforcement authorities in and out of Barbados and the rest of the Caribbean routinely use to describe the persistently high incidence of domestic violence and sexual abuse in Barbados.
Add rape to the distressing picture, and the extent of the agony women across the land face day in and day out would become clear.
Ironically, they suffer as a result of the actions of spouses who commit the offenses and then claim love made them do it. Tragically, some women have embraced that fallacious notion. (A)
More: http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/293472813548266.php

Being foremost a mother has value again.
by Sieglinde Alexander

In a discussion with friends I was asked, what was most the most significant part of the Barbara Walters interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.

Without hesitation I named two short but very important sentences that send out a message around the world:
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The German government acknowledged the abuse on 500,000 institutionalized children.
by Sieglinde Alexander
The decades of waiting for justice ended on Nov. 26. 2008
The German government not only acknowledged the abuse of some 500,000 institutionalized children, it apologized and promised a thorough investigation.
Two years ago, the formally institutionalized, filed a petition to the German government, asking for an investigation about abuse in German institutions and the violation of human rights in the post World War II years.
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80 percent of Internet child porn victims under 10 years old
The true horror of Internet child pornography has been revealed by the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK organisation that works with law enforcement agencies to help prevent such abuse. Be warned, this story does not make for happy reading...

The Internet Watch Foundation is a British organisation that works closely with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre and other law enforcement agencies to encourage the reporting of child porn online. (A)

Church still owes €50m to victims of sex abuse
By Mary Regan, Political Reporter

RELIGIOUS orders still owe the Government more than €50 million of the sum they agreed to pay in 2002 to compensate victims of clerical sex abuse.

While the overall compensation package will cost €1.1 billion, the controversial deal the religious orders struck with the state limits their liability to €128m — of which only €76.8m has been paid.
More at: http://www.paddydoyle.com/churchstillowes.html

Abuse by my own father made me feel worthless'
Sentence adjourned for man who also preyed on nieces and children of friends
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/abuse-by-my-own-father-made-me-feel--worthless-1278560.html
By Fiona Ferguson
Friday February 01 2008
A MAN who sexually abused his daughter while reading her bedtime stories -- as well as four nieces and children of family friends over a 15-year period -- has had his sentence adjourned.
The 67-year-old man pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 14 sample counts of indecent assault against the seven female victims, on dates between October 1974 and November 1989.
His now 40-year-old daughter wept as she told the judge:
"If your father does that to you and your mother stands by him, it makes you feel worthless." (A)

Remarks by Sieglinde W. Alexander:
To bring abuse to court after 30 years would not possible in Germany or USA. The statue of limitation protects abusers.

From the Frying Pan to Hell
by Sieglinde W. Alexander

The choice a child has against abuse is null. Either it is the frying pan or hell. A child is powerless. Having learned everything to become a dysfunctional adult, we continue our life in the same unbalanced pattern.

The 14 years of my childhood were my private holocaust, stained with fear by the almost daily beatings, sexual abuse, oppression, and child labor. After having run away six times, I said to these cold-hearted bureaucrats from the child protection agency that I would steal or commit murder if they sent me back home again....
...The new girls’ home was called Haus Weiher, and was operated by brother Buchta, a member of the Lutheran Brothers of Altdorf a part of the Rummelberger Anstalten. In this house of continuously praying, middle-aged, vicious spinsters, who called themselves “the ones without sin,” I became acquainted with other frightening cruelties, oppressions and dehumanizing humiliations.

In the MIND of a child MOLESTER
EMILY WATT - The Dominion Post | Saturday, 18 August 2007
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4168488a6479.html

The paedophile has a favourite saying: "I see the world, but not as you see it."

When he looks at children, they are in a bubble of light, highlighted and more vivid than the rest of the world. But more: the paedophile is two people, a real-life Jekyll and Hyde. Logically, he knows what he did was wrong, or as he says, "served no purpose". Instinctively, he thinks it did no harm - that his scores of victims enjoyed it.

"Did I think it was naughty? Yeah. Did I think it was wrong? No. Even now, I don't."
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Payout a win for the Stolen

Jamie Walker and Pia Akerman | August 02, 2007

SOUTH Australia has been ordered to pay $525,000 to a Stolen Generations victim in a breakthrough compensation victory.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,22175063-2702,00.html?from=public_rss

The compensation win is for Aborigines taken from their families.

The damages award not only establishes a potent judicial precedent, but will intensify pressure on the commonwealth and states to establish statutory compensation schemes for Stolen Generations victims. (a)

read also INTRODUCTION: TREVORROW v STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA (No 5) [2007] SASC 285 (1 August 2007) http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SASC/2007/285.html

On Christmas Day 1957, an Aboriginal infant in need of medical treatment was sent to hospital. The child recovered a short time later. He was then taken from hospital and placed in long term foster care. His parents were unaware of the removal or fostering. Almost 50 years later, this Court is to determine the legal consequences that flow from the removal, his placement with another family, and the circumstances of his return to his own family a decade later. (a)

COMMENTARY - L.A. sex abuse settlement leaves troubling questions unanswered

By RICHARD CRAVATTS

http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2007/07/26/opinion/opin02.txt

While the recent $660 million settlement overseen by Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of the Los Angeles diocese, to some 500 abuse victims has brought closure to one aspect of the Catholic Church’s far-reaching child abuse scandal, it still leaves unanswered - and troubling - questions about the psychology of the perpetrators and those Church leaders who ignored and enabled their criminal actions.

What is it about the Church that attracted the many priests who would go on to sexually abuse hundreds of pre- and post-pubescent children? What moral machinations, specific to the Church, could allow the serial complicity of the church hierarchy who ignored wrongdoing and shuffled offending priests from parish to parish, often over decades and frequently well after their sexual transgressions were widely known? (A)

Giuliani has connection with accused priest
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Placa was legal adviser for Whitinsville center

By Shaun Sutner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ssutner@telegram.com
http://telegram.com/article/20070722/NEWS/707220489/1116

"It (the House of Affirmation) was presented as a retreat for vocational redirection. What we have found out since, and what it has been called in the Blackstone Valley by people who really know what went on there, is that it was a pedophile boot camp."
David Lewcon of Northbridge, WHO WORKED AT THE WHITINSVILLE CENTER IN THE 1970S

Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani has close ties to a Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting boys and who also was the lawyer for a now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring. (A)

False beliefs about sexual abuse against children: A reality still too present in 2007

"While nearly half of victims are between six and eleven years old when they are first abused, it is surprising to learn that one out of four adults believes that a child may provoke sexual abuse by his or her behaviour, that
abuse occurs on the street or at school rather than in a private setting, and that an abused child victim will resist with force or try to get away", indicated Mr. Claude Girouard, member of the board of both the Marie-Vincent
Foundation and the Centre d'expertise en agression sexuelle Marie-Vincent. As far as acts committed by the abuser, one out of two adults believe that sexual abuse against children must necessarily involve anal or vaginal sexual relations.

Abusive Families and the Pattern of Fascism
by Andrew Bard Schmookler

I've been living in a fundamentalist Christian household for several months now. The several very young children in the house regularly experience levels of humiliation, of physical and emotional abuse and neglect, of external control over their biological needs, of dehumanizing treatment that are all, while still legal and sanctioned by the social, legal, and health communities, have nevertheless deeply disturbed me and reduced me to tears on more than one occasion. My feeble interventions have been ill received and seen as an intolerable challenge. Even the victims outwardly embrace the authoritarianism. It does not surprise me that Christian communities enthusiastically support Mr. Bush and his policies--such as those policies are even known or understood. The blind worship of authority here--whether legitimate or not--has its political counterpart in fascism.(A)
More: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/4312

Family Research Institute: 35% of Foster-Parent Molestations Homosexual
http://www.earnedmedia.org/fri0810.htm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- New evidence poses problems for those who think homosexuals should be allowed to serve as foster-parents. 35% of foster-parents who sexually abused their foster-children in the last three years engaged in homosexuality.
From 2003 through 2005, a third of foster-parent molestations of foster-children were homosexual. That’s the official tally from two states -- Illinois and Minnesota -- that permit homosexual foster-parents. For the approximately 30,000 children/year in foster-care at some point in the two states:
12 foster mothers sexually abused their charges: 9 (75%) assaulted foster-daughters, 3 (25%) raped foster-sons.
28 foster-fathers sexually abused their charges: 23 (82%) assaulted foster-daughters, 5 (18%) raped foster-sons. (A)

Rape claim ruling opens way for trauma actions
Jewel Topsfield and Orietta Guerrera
July 21, 2006
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rape-claim-ruling-opens-way-for-actions/2006/07/20/1153166521710.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
A LANDMARK High Court decision has opened the doors for potentially millions of dollars in lawsuits by people who suffer psychological illness many years after a traumatic event.
They will be able to seek compensation after the court allowed a woman to sue Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark, who she alleges raped her 35 years ago. (A)

In the shadow of the holocaust:
A cover up of institutional abuse in Germany after World War II
by Sieglinde W. Alexander

Very little is written in English speaking newspapers about Germany’s Human Rights violations after World War II.

An estimated 500,000 children were abused and callously used in religious and state institutions in Germany after 1945. They were drugged, labeled as imbeciles and some found mentally incompetent. Others were called criminals or unfit to live or considered a disturbance for society. They were hauled away to labor as child-slaves for state or religious institutions. The method of the 3rd Reich continued. Nuns, Christian brothers, and state employees disgraced and mutilated innocent children. Under their care, they were sexually, mentally and physically abused and some forcibly drugged until they reached adulthood.
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Silent epidemic
Sexual abuse claims a staggering number of child victims
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-32396sy0may31,0,1542886.story?coll=dp-opinion-editorials

May 31, 2006
If a threat developed - a disease, or some product that caused significant injury - that struck a huge number of Virginia's children, there'd be a massive response as parents and communities mobilized to protect their children. Especially if the threat could cause not only physical harm but also, possibly, long-lasting, even life-changing psychological damage. We'd expect to see the commanding media coverage and comprehensive response that a major threat to public health and safety deserves, especially one that targets children. (A)

O'Malley begins "pilgrimage of repentance and hope"
By Mark Pratt, Associated Press Writer May 25, 2006

Cardinal Sean O'Malley and about two dozen bishops and priests prostrated themselves on the altar of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Thursday to ask forgiveness from God for the damage done by the Roman Catholic church's clergy sex abuse scandal.

It was the first of 10 Masses or prayer services scheduled for the next week and a half across the Boston Archdiocese to offer prayers and to apologize to victims for the priests and church workers who hurt children.

"It's empty words as far as I am concerned," said Susan Renehan of Southbridge, who said she was sexually abused by a priest over a three-year period while a child living in New Jersey. "I don't want to hear words of repentance. I want to see actions that define that repentance."
John Harris, 48, of Norwood called O'Malley's pilgrimage to churches in communities that have suffered a particularly painful history of sexual abuse a "PR ploy." (A)

DAINGEAN AND MODERN MEMORY
Bruce Arnold
For its first hundred years Daingean was an Army garrison and a prison. For the next hundred years it was a Reformatory for boys. The dates are almost exact. The garrison was established in 1776, the Reformatory in 1870 and the closure - recommended by the Kennedy Report of 1970 - took place in 1973. Since then Daingean has been largely forgotten. It is now a decayed place of sad and fearful memories for those who were inmates and of shameful ones for those responsible for its operation.

Healing for survivors of child abuse
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Presenter: John Inglis
First published by ABC Western Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/s1618336.htm?backyard

A survivor of childhood abuse now runs a healing centre for other survivors.
When Liz Mullinar could no longer bear the cries of anguish from people who had no where to turn for help, she set up Mayumarri. Located in rural New South Wales, the centre caters for survivors of childhood abuse. Mayumarri is an opportunity for people to heal and to move on in their lives, she says.

Liz Mullinar was sexually abused by her father and others from the time she was a baby till she was 19. As a child, she says, the betrayal is made worse because a parent is the abuser. "The prime care giver is saying they love you while abusing you."

Child Abuse Education and Awareness

The effects of child abuse can last a lifetime. Adults who were abused as children often suffer low self-esteem, as they grew up believing that that they were bad and deserving of abuse. Abuse occurring in childhood also stunts a child's emotional growth. Later in life, the child may be unable to properly express his or her feelings or understand others' feelings. Poor emotional development and lack of trust can also make partner relationships difficult as an adult. If the effects of abuse go untreated, it is not unlikely for the child to grow up to be an adult who repeats the abuse with his or her own child. (A)
Article: http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20060414/Opinion/104140032

How society contribute to abuse.
Comments to the article:
For generation the inbred pattern of unnatural Giant mall opens 1st breastfeeding station Inquirer http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=69567
by Sieglinde Alexander
Unconsciously, American society reveals their deeply rooted mental damage. The most natural, life sustaining practice of breastfeeding in public is considered a taboo.

Swiss
Sex abuse victims fight back
swissinfo March 1, 2006 12:14 PM Thursday 02.03.2006, CET 00:29

The Marche Blanche (White March) association has handed in a people's initiative calling for an end to the current 15-year time limit on reporting sexual abuse.
The document, which gathered almost 120,000 signatures, was handed into the Federal Chancellery in the Swiss capital Bern on Wednesday.
This means that the issue is now likely to come to a nationwide vote.
"Children have too few rights in our society," said Chantal Besson from Marche Blanche, which fights against child abuse.
"More than 40,000 children are abused every year in Switzerland, but only around 330 people are sentenced," she told the Bern-based Bund newspaper.
The non-governmental association is calling for an end to the time limit on sexual abuse, so that those people who were victims as children can take legal action as adults.

Ireland
The speech of President Mary McAleeese, at the University College Cork, Friday 27th January 2006 – A View from 2006.
After reading the speech of President Mary McAleese, at the University College Cork,
Friday 27th January 2006, in relation to the 90th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising – A View from 2006, her speech referred to Human Rights.
We were therefore surprised that President Mary McAleese, did not mention the 60,000 babies stolen then sold in the Republic of Ireland.
Between the 1930s and the 1960s an estimated 60,000 newborns were procured under false pretences for married couples that had been turned down as prospective adoptive parents on various grounds.
Read the article:http://www.paddydoyle.com/president.html

What triggers violence in society
By THEA RUTHERFORD

"You gat me sitting down in a cell for most of the day. What I gat to lose?"
He is the needy little boy whose parents forgot to tell him that he was special, that the world was his and that he could do anything he put his mind to. He is the 15-year old half-hardened by the lack of expectations society and his own parents have for him and even he has for himself. Raped of any sliver of self-confidence long ago, at the age when all kids feel that their dreams could only come true, his were suffocated by the overwhelming feeling that nobody seemed to care. If they had, they had never shown it, at least not in a way that he could be sure of.
As his voice gets louder, he grows into the young man who has tossed aside books and school knowledge because it made no sense on the streets that nurtured him when family didn't realise that their role was being usurped.

read the article and comments

"Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis."
Why is the Bush administration funding secret meetings
about globalizing psychiatric labeling?

Governor proposes toughest sex offender law in country
Gov. Bill Richardson
Tougher Penalties for Sex Offenders This includes creating a special designation for the most heinous sex crimes against children, life in prison without the possibility of parole, even for a first time offender, in special circumstances.

Last Update: 11/16/2005 6:36:21 PM
Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday proposed toughening New Mexico’s sex offender laws to the toughest level in the country.
The proposal would give some offenders – even first-time offenders – life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Richardson’s proposed life sentence would be for those convicted of:
· Aggravated criminal sexual penetration of a child under the age of 9,
· Criminal sexual penetration with intent to kill, regardless of the victim’s age, or
· Criminal sexual penetration and torture.
“These are all circumstances where we think you forfeited your ability to live outside prison walls for the rest of your life,” said Bob Schwartz, Richardson’s crime advisor.
The new sentencing guidelines would make New Mexico’s sex offender laws the toughest in the nation.
The proposal will go to the state legislature in January as part of a five-point plan Richardson introduced Wednesday.

Your opinion is needed:

The points we raise:
• Will a lifetime sentence eliminate sex crime?
• Is it not the victim who pays indirectly with their tax-money for the incarceration of sex offenders?
• As science has affirmed, sex offenders were once victims of the same heinous crime themselves.

The subject for discussion is offered in the
Discussion Forum: “What should we do with abusers?”
http://www.aaacworld.org/victims/forum.htm
Please send your opinion for publication to: admin@aaacworld.org

Read the opinion letters we have received:

Ireland:
Redress Board secrecy 'causing damage' to victims of sex abuse
"One victim used this analogy; an adult abuses a child. It is their 'secret'. To make sure the 'secret' is kept, the adult will give the child money or sweets. They buy silence.

Read the article: http://www.paddydoyle.com/causingdamage.html

The Step Up Report - Month 48 December 1, 2005
Loathe as I am to wax negative in this Season of Joy, something has occurred here that must not pass without comment: There was recently held in our community a three-day conference on the theme of "domestic violence", yet not a word did the presenters utter about the physical punishment of children.

Doctors argue that depression 'should not be seen as a disease'
Irish Independent Wednesday November 30th 2005
Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent

DEPRESSION should be viewed as an emotion rather than a disease, according to the authors of a controversial new book.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Michael Corry of Clane General Hospital and Dublin psychotherapist Dr Aine Tubridy question the widespread use of drugs to treat depression, saying it is more "band-aid" than cure.

Pope seeks immunity over sex abuse suit
August 17, 2005

Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked US President George W. Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pope-seeks-immunity-over-sex-abuse-suit/2005/08/17/1123958097061.html

News Release:
Government of Canada announces agreement in principle toward a fair and lasting resolution of the legacy of Indian residential schools
“The Government’s Representative, the Honourable Frank Iacobucci, has reached an Agreement in Principle with the Assembly of First Nations, legal representatives of former students of Indian residential schools and representatives of the Churches involved in running those schools. The parties to Mr. Iacobucci’s discussions are in agreement on the ways to recognize the common Indian residential school experience of former students” said Deputy Prime Minister McLellan.

Sexual abuse forum offers stunning facts, but hopeful message
By Brendan Berube
Correspondent
BOXFORD — Imagine, for a moment, that one in four American women and one in six men were afflicted with a disease that started in childhood and pursued them throughout their lives.
According to Boxford resident Jetta Bernier, that disease exists, and it has a name: child sexual abuse. (A)

US victims may sue Irish training dioceses
Seán O'Driscoll and Patsy McGarry
Lawyers representing US clerical child sex abuse victims have indicated they may initiate multi-million-dollar lawsuits against Irish dioceses that trained paedophile priests.

A LIFE WORTH SAVING
By Ushanda
...they didn’t realize that those threats don’t help when a person is craving suicide. In fact, such added pressure may worsen the situation. The well-meaning people might not know that, for some of us, the THOUGHT of suicide may be the only comfort that can prevent the ACTION of suicide, at that time.

The Episcopal diocese protects one parishioner who preyed on its flock and excommunicates another who tried to protect it.
CHARLESTON, SC: Breaking Faith
By Adam Ferrell
Charleston City Paper
November 3, 2005
It's not just Catholic churches that harbor pedophiles and sex offenders. Churches of any kind can unwittingly provide predators access to children in trusting environments, as a controversial case with a Folly Road Episcopal church parishioner shows. (A33)