Category Archives: false memory syndrome

Our Endangered Species: A Hard Look At How We Treat Children

Posted on December 9, 2015 by

This article is almost 17 years old, but I remember the day I read it in 1998, in The Los Angeles Times (Parade) Magazine. It was only a few months after I remembered my father had sexually abused, raped, and … Continue reading →

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The False Love Between Victims and Sexual Abusers

Posted on November 10, 2015 by

“There are pictures of everything except the fondling and the oral sex that my father forced me to perform for him” ~ Joyce Allan Many victims of child sexual abuse are disbelieved because the child was captured in photos showing … Continue reading →

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“Abuse? What Abuse?… Please Pass the Potatoes”

Posted on October 21, 2015 by

Repression and dissociation of trauma is included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). I don’t particularly like the word “disorder” because I believe that memory repression is an ingenious, rational, and methodical way for a child’s … Continue reading →

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Former Miss America, Incest Survivor, Shares Her Story

Posted on October 8, 2015 by

…“Scuff, scuff, scuff.” The sounds of expensive felt soles making their way down the hall of a Denver mansion in the middle of a night. The slow turn of the door handle on the private bedroom door of a 5-year-old … Continue reading →

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Sexual Predators Can Confuse the Sexual Identity of a Child, and Even Get Them To Commit Murder

Posted on March 24, 2015 by

This is a re-post from 2012. It is timely… “People need to realize that there are many, many of us out there, and we’re not going away.” ~ an admitted pedophile When a child is being sexually violated, they often … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Van Derbur’s Story: Still Compelling and Still Powerful Evidence of Repression for Childhood Sexual Abuse

Posted on March 16, 2015 by

This article is very old, but still relevant today. Did Daddy Really Do it? ~Los Angeles Times, Katy Butler “On May 8, 1991, seven years after her father’s death, a graying, impeccably groomed former Miss America named Marilyn Van Derbur … Continue reading →

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Mother-Child Incest: An Abomination of Nature

Posted on February 2, 2015 by

A portion of this article was originally posted in 2009, but It’s time has come to be re-posted, with additional text. When I first saw Gregg Milligan on Oprah many years ago, I was still so unhealed with regards to … Continue reading →

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