-
The
iatrogenics of False Memory Syndrome, Satanic Ritual Abuse allegations,
Alien Abductional sex abuse beliefs, and Multiple Personality Disorder
diagnoses in skyrocketing numbers;
-
How
misandry and victimal Feminism play into the picture; and the politics
of abuse and abuse-repression beliefs;
-
Suggestive
psychotherapy, & cultural susceptibility to suggestion (a look at
narcissism & infantilism come of age);
-
Federal
institutionalizing of hysteria through CAPTA, Violence Against Women Act,
etc., based on bogus advocacy statistics;
-
Self
esteem as presumptive entitlement; Political Correctness; Relativism and
other collusive errors of Academe;
-
We
will track a thirty-year drift into Self-infatuation, with its predictable
loss of empirical bearings & accountable behavior; New-Age hubris
& 'new epistemologies' & the decay of legal due process, scientific
methodology, & a respect for verifiable objective Reality.
| WEEK
ONE: |
| |
| WEEK
TWO: |
| |
| WEEK
THREE: |
| |
|
| |
- General introduction to subject, and method of approach.
|
| |
- False Memory Syndrome phenomena
|
| |
- Satanic Ritual Abuse
- Multiple Personality Disorder fad
- Alien Abduction Craze
- Facilitated Communication
|
|
| BOOKS: |
- RETURN
OF THE FURIES, Underwager
- MEMORY
WARS, F. Crews
- VICTIMS
OF MEMORY, Pendergrast
- DIAGNOSIS
FOR DISASTER (Wassil-Grimm)
- REMEMBERING
SATAN, L. Wright
- SATAN'S
SILENCE, Nathan/Snedeker
- SEX ABUSE
HYSTERIA, R. Gardner
- HARMONY
OF ILLUSIONS, A. Young
- MULTIPLE
IDENTITY & FALSE MEMORIES, Nicholas Spanos
- HYSTORIES,
E. Showalter
- MANUFACTURING
VICTIMS, T. Dineen
- SATANIC
PANIC, J. Victor
also:
- CONFABULATIONS;
& TRUE STORIES OF FALSE MEMORIES, Goldstein/Farmer
|
| VIDEO: |
- DIVIDED
MEMORIES (Frontline)
|
|
|
|
|
HYSTERIA
& SUGGESTIBILITY
|
- The Index of 'Righteous Gullibility"
- MONDALE ACT (CAPTA), & unwitting tenets of generative
hysteria
- Current beliefs in Repressed Memories
- 'Recovery Movement' & 12-step collusion
- The APA, & professional culpability
|
|
| BOOKS: |
- MYTH OF
REPRESSED MEMORIES, (E. Loftus)
- SUGGESTIONS
OF ABUSE, (M. Yapko)
- BATTLE
FOR THE MIND, Wm. Sargant
- MAKING
MONSTERS, Ofshe/Watters
- PRESUMED
GUILTY, M. Yant
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
OF THE 4TH KIND, Bryon
- COURAGE
TO HEAL, Bass/Davis
|
NOTE:
Four
'layman-writer' books sparked a good deal of current hysteria
- MICHELLE REMEMBERS: SIBYL: CHAMELEON: and COURAGE TO HEAL.
Also: Works of Rene Frederickson, Lenore Terr, Judith Herman,
et al.
|
|
| WEEK
FIVE: |
CULTURAL/HYSTERICAL
PERSPECTIVE
|
BOOKS: |
| |
- From the Thirties to Now
- The Sixties, & advent of The Self
- New Age; Feminist 'new' epistemology )& Scientific Methodology
as 'Patriarchal Oppression')
- Political Correctness, & loss of due process
- Academic Contaminations
- The 'Narcissim/dependency/suggestibility' decelension
- Self-narration as source of 'Truth'
- Relativism gone absolute
- P.T. Barnum & Charcot: Public 'freaks' spectacles
|
- TELLING THE TRUTH,
L. Cheney
- DEMON HAUNTED
WORLD, C. Sagan
- CONSOLATIONS
OF THEOSOPHY, F. Crews (article)
- AMERICAN GOTHIC,
M. Edmundson (article)
- CULTURE OF NARCISSISM,
C. Lasch
- SURVIVOR PSYCHOLOGY,
S. Smith
- DICTATORSHIP
OF VIRTUE, R. Bernstein
- ...THE MADNESS
OF CROWDS, C. Mackay
- NATION OF VICTIMS,
C. Sykes
- DEMOCRACY ON
TRIAL, J. B. Elshtain
|
| WEEK
SIX |
PERSPECTIVE
ON
PSYCHOTHERAPY
|
BOOKS: |
| |
- Art, Science, or Quackery
- Ghouls, fairy tales & fables (their appropriate place in life?)
- American Psychological Association: A Sober Look & the collapse
of codes of ethics
- Ubiquitous PTSD: Can 200 thousand therapists be mistaken?
|
- HOUSE OF CARDS,
R. Dawes
- BEWARE THE TALKING
CURE, T. Campbell
- BEDLAM, J. Sharkey
- A MOST DANGEROUS
METHOD, J. Kerr
- I'M DYSFUNCTIONAL
/ YOU'RE DYSFUNCTIONAL, W. Kaminer
- MYTH OF MENTAL
ILLNESS, T. Szasz
- MIND GAMES, R.
Baker
- SEARCH FOR MEMORY,
D. Schacter
|
| WEEK
SEVEN |
CHILD
SAVERS: Tradition & Rebirth
|
BOOKS |
| |
- Child Protective Services & the Department of Human Services
- Suggestibility / Interrogation, & righteous prosecution
- Adult projections upon children
|
- WOUNDED
INNOCENTS, R. Wexler
- JEOPARDY
IN THE COURTROOM, Ceci/Bruck
- OUT OF
CONTROL, B. Scott
- REAL WORLD
OF CHILD INTERROGATIONS, Underwager
- POLITICS
OF CHILD ABUSE/AMERICA (Costin et al)
- WITCH-CHILDREN,
H. Sebald
- LONG RANGE
EFFECTS OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SEXUAL EXPERIENCES, A. Kilpatrick
- SEXUALITY:
A developmental approach to Problems, Gordon and Schrieder
- THE CHILD
ABUSE INDUSTRY, M. Pride
|
| VIDEO: |
- INNOCENCE
LOST (Frontline)
(The LITTLE RASCALS scandal)
|
|
| WEEK
EIGHT |
THE SEX
ABUSE INDUSTRY
|
BOOKS: |
| |
- Hysteria as Big Business
- Tracking the money flow
- "Abuse" as mantra for cottage industry
- Media and publication bonanza
- Recovery 'experts', & Fed Funds: gasoline on the hysterical
fire
|
- FIRST DO NO HARM:
THE SEXUAL ABUSE INDUSTRY, Felicity Goodyear-Smith
- ISSUES IN SEX
ABUSE ALLEGATIONS Quarterly
- (Index Referencing,
all above)
|
| WEEK
NINE |
| |
| WEEK
TEN |
| |
| WEEK
ELEVEN |
| |
|
|
GENDER
WARS
|
- Current Romance of Victimhood
- Misandry & Androphobia: Passive control
- Equity and/or Gender Feminist Battle
- Feminist studies, & University presses
- Feminist 'epistemology' & impact on due process, accountability,
scientific methodology, & rules of evidence
- Self-serving Gender Myths which feed hysteria
|
| |
- Domestic Violence / Domestic Abuse: Politics and 'advocacy
research'
- Violence Against Women Act
- Demonizing, control, victimology, and false allegations
- Federal Funding of Hysteria
|
| |
- Beyond cyncism & gendered mythologies: Fairness, Equity,
and: Equality of Rights, Responsibilities, and Accountability
- New Voices Emerging
|
|
| BOOKS: |
- WHO STOLE
FEMINISM?, C. Hoff-Sommers
- MYTH OF
MALE POWER, W. Farrell
- PROFESSING
FEMINISM, D. Patai
- GENDER
WARS (galley), C. Young
- EVIDENCE
& INQUIRY, S. Haack
- MASCULINE
MYSTIQUE, A. Kimbrell
- PRINCESS
AT THE WINDOW, D. Laframboise
- FROM DATE
TO PUBLIC POLICY, WFN/Simon
- LIP SERVICE,
K. Fillion
- THE MORNING
AFTER, K. Roiphe
- HETERPHOBIA,
D. Patai (article)
- FEMINISM
UNDER FIRE, E. Klein
- MISMEASURE
OF WOMAN, C. Tavris
|
ALSO:
WOMAN's WAYS OF KNOWING; & Gilligan's IN A DIFFERENT VOICE
|
|
| WEEK
TWELVE |
| |
| WEEK
THIRTEEN |
| |
| WEEK
FOURTEEN |
| |
|
|
CONCERNED
VOICES EVOLVING AT LARGE
|
- The whole cultural picture
|
|
LIVING
SENSIBLY WITHIN THIS WORLD
|
- Objective/subjective balance
- Due Process: Scientific evidence/inquiry
- Are these the Death-throes of Romantic Psychotherapy?
- Good Faith, Responsible Reflection, and self-responsibility
- Determining what is to be done: politically, socially, personally
|
|
A
HEALTHY & JUST PERSPECTIVE
|
- The dangers of an 'easy' life, without rites of passage
- Standards of opulent ease, materialistic consummerism, &
the fallacy of ever-increasing standard of material living
- The 'Simple Life' tradition within US History; & Self-responsible
living...as antidote against hysteria
|
|
| BOOKS: |
Revisited:
Cheney, Sagan, Lasch, R. Hughes' CULTURE OF COMPLAINT, &
Coetzee's GIVING OFFENSE
|
| BOOKS: |
- THE SIMPLE LIFE, D. Shi
- FLIGHT FROM THE CITY, R. Borsodi
- THE LONELY CROWD, D. Reisman
- STAYING PUT, S. Sanders
- THE VILLAGERS, R. Critchfield
- AND: Emerson and Dewey re: Nature, 'education' and self-responsibility
|
| |
|
