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...welfare of transnational corporations than of everyday workers resonates because we all suspect it's true. But if Bob Dole and Bill Clinton don't get it, or only pretend to get it in order to get elected, then Buchanan might very well be our next President. JIM TERR Santa Fe, New Mexico...
...core of the debate is the nature of memory. "Everyone has had a childhood thing happen to them, like a scolding from a teacher, which came back when it was cued by something else," notes Dr. Lenore Terr of the University of California, San Francisco. Similarly, she argues, extreme traumas can be more deeply buried than other memories. "This may seem counter-intuitive to the lay person, who thinks 'If something terrible happens, I will always remember it,' " says Dr. Judith Herman, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. "But these memories seem to be laid down in an altered state...
...Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who pioneered research of hypnosis and sodium amytal, wrote in a court brief that the drug is "not useful in ascertaining 'truth' . . . The patient becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers." Dr. Lenore Terr, a prominent defender of recovered memories and a chief witness for the defense, admitted under questioning that at least one of Holly's "flashbacks" -- of being forced to perform oral sex on the family dog -- was dubious. That admission helped cast doubt on all of Holly's sex-abuse memories...
...current methods for obtaining evidence in sex-abuse cases -- direct questioning and the use of dolls with sex organs -- are under fire. "Kids can be fed ideas they quickly come to believe are true, and these dolls are highly suggestive," says Lenore Terr, a professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. For example, some of the dolls lack hands and have only painted eyes, yet they have highly explicit genital areas. Terr stresses that normally inquisitive children who play with these dolls can mistakenly be suspected of having been abused...
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