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Entry: Bitch-Slapping Barack Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/btich_slapping_barack#24582 Post contents: Joe, I wonder what comment you refer to? However, the "abuse cases" you mention are regularly discussed without their historical context: do you recall the daycare center abuse hysteria of the early 90s? On investigation, just about all accusations were found to be baseless, apparently stemming from memories produced in therapy. In the mid-90s, there were the parent-child abuse "fad." On closer investigation, many of these cases also turned out to be imaginary. The "fad" ended rather rapidly, when some of the accusers' therapists were succesffully sued. The two earlier hysterias and their scant foundations in reality raise obvious questions: how many of the cases of the current fad are real? More particularly, how many of the accusations are based on recovered memories, and how reliable are those memories? These questions lead to the most troubling of all: to what extent has the abuse movement in practise meant giving the psychotherapeutic profession an open season on Catholicism? Sent at: 2008 09 08