While hundreds of these cases were winding through the courts, eventually imprisoning tons of innocent adults, kids like these, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were growing up, and regarded as normal. Sick video just released to the Denver media. http://www.9news.com/includes/buildasx.aspx?fn=10-22-chsgunmen-1a.wmv http://www.9news.com/storyfull.aspx?storyid=20077
http://www.debunker.com/texts/courage_to_heal.html The Courage to Heal A Guide for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis (New York: Perennial Library, Harper & Row, 1988)
reviewed by Robert Sheaffer (July, 1994)
Among rational persons this book has rightfully acquired an aura of infamy, like that of the Malleus Maleficarum, or Senator McCarthy's list. Few books of modern times have resulted in so much harm. Most of us have seen a few outrageous quotes from it like "if you are unable to remember any specific instances like the ones mentioned above but still have a feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did" (p.21), and "demands for proof are unreasonable" (p. 137). There is absolutely no solid research to support the view of "recovered memories" promoted in this book, and a great deal of evidence against it. [1] The approach being used by the "survivors" movement is much like that traditionally employed by fundamentalist Christian churches: convince someone that they have a serious problem of which they previously were unaware ("forgotten abuse", "original sin", etc), then proclaim that you alone can offer them the solution to the problem, and subsequent misery, that you have created.
-- Michael Pugliese