https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/10/sexual-assault-definition-trump-comments The 2005 tape of Donald Trump bragging that his celebrity status allowed him to grope women with abandon has sent the Republican party reeling. But on Sunday night, the top spokespeople for the GOP and the Trump campaign had recovered their wits long enough to dispute whether Trump wasContinue Reading
Trump and Hillary #debate For @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/NCCjWyBRtG — Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) October 10, 2016Continue Reading
http://spy.nzherald.co.nz/celebrity/theroux-interviews-saviles-victims/ British filmmaker Louis Theroux has spoken of his uncomfortable interviews with the victims of Jimmy Savile after failing to expose the entertainer as a sexual predator during the making of a documentary 16 years ago. Theroux spent three months with the man who would be revealed as a prolificContinue Reading
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/16/mdma-ptsd-therapy-trauma-maps-medical-study Over the years, she tried talking therapy, somatic therapy, and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), in which a therapist moves his or her fingers left and right in front of a patient’s face as they recount their trauma (the eye movements seem to dampen the memories). Nothing worked.Continue Reading
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20161005/High-cortisol-levels-during-morning-sessions-provide-more-benefits-to-psychotherapy-patients.aspx Patients make more progress toward overcoming anxiety, fears and phobias when their therapy sessions are scheduled in the morning, new research suggests. The study found that morning sessions helped psychotherapy patients overcome their panic and anxiety and phobic avoidance better, in part, because levels of cortisol — a naturallyContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84835547/ronald-edward-growcott-admits-child-sex-offending-dating-back-53-years A 90-year-old man has admitted child sex offending dating back as long as 53 years. Name suppression has lifted on Ronald Edward Growcott, who had a walking stick to help him stand in the dock when he pleaded guilty at the Christchurch District Court on Friday. Growcott admitted sexualContinue Reading
http://mashable.com/2016/10/08/donald-trump-sexual-assault-survivor/#ZuPC0bv_CPq5 My assault began when this boy “grabbed me by the pussy.” It isn’t up for debate: What Trump describes is sexual assault. Those are the exact words used by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in a 2005 recording released by the Washington Post on Friday. In the tape, TrumpContinue Reading
https://scienceblog.com/488591/whats-really-going-ptsd-brains-new-theory/ The bottom line, they say, is that people with PTSD appear to suffer from disrupted context processing. That’s a core brain function that allows people and animals to recognize that a particular stimulus may require different responses depending on the context in which it is encountered. It’s what allowsContinue Reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_Guest_House_child_abuse_scandal The Elm Guest House child abuse scandal arose from claims of sexual abuse and grooming of children at parties held at the former Elm Guest House in Rocks Lane, near Barnes Common in south-west London during the late 1970s and 1980s. Prominent British men alleged to have attended theContinue Reading
