As I have said, standards of evidence are imperfect in history, but they get us closer to reality than do cases in a bigoted legal system. One could cite similar material for women trying to prove rape in Pakistan. But of course, here and there, due to shame, etc., a small proportion of the horrors that occur never even make it to court.
The stuff we have been seeing here isn't social science, it's ideology.
Jesse Lemisch ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:14 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] False accusations
> Abney v. Therapist, In the District Court of Harris County, Texas, 11th
> Judicial District, Cause No. 93-054106. Former client, her two daughters
and
> husband sued hospital and doctors for negligence in misdiagnosing multiple
> personality disorder and encouraging the belief that her family had
> participated in satanic cult rituals. Plaintiff also claimed fraudulent
> misrepresentation of her condition to the medical insurance carrier. In
> April, 1995, suit settled through mediation for an undisclosed sum under
> confidentiality agreement. See, Gangelhoff, B., "Devilish Diagnosis:
> Hypnotized and bound by restraints, the patients of Judith Peterson say
they
> came to believe they had multiple personalities or had belonged to satanic
> cults. So, apparently did their therapist," Houston Press, July 6 - July
12,
> 1995. See, also, "Suits against abusive therapists settled," FMSF
> Newsletter, June, 1995, pp. 11-12.
>
> Althaus v. Cohen, in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County,
> Pennsylvania, Case No. 92-20893. On December 16, 1994, a jury awarded
> $272,232.07 in compensatory damages to parents and daughter against
> daughter's psychiatrist for failure to properly diagnose and encouraged
her
> to believe in nonexistent events including accusations of parental sex
abuse
> and satanic ritual abuse. See, "Parents win suit against psychiatrist in
sex
> case," The New York Times, December 17, 1994. See, also, Ross, A.S.,
"Blame
> it on the devil," Redbook Magazine, June, 1994.
>
> Bean v. Peterson, Superior Court of the State of New Hampshire, in and for
> Cheshire County, Case No. 95-E-0038. Malpractice suit brought by couple
> alleging psychologists' treatment temporarily convinced Mrs. Bean that she
> suffered from multiple personality disorder and had been programmed as a
> child by a satanic cult. Plaintiffs claimed the treatment caused her to
> become suicidal. Pending. See, Poor, E., "Jaffrey couple brings suit over
> malpractice: Beans charge that Dublin psychologist abused his position in
> treatment," Monadnock Ledger, May 18, 1995, p. 15.
>
> Many, many more of these horror stories at
> http://fmsfonline.org/legalsurvey.html
>
>
>
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