Word: therapist
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...Your new book deals with false-memory syndrome. How did you become interested in that? There have been many instances in cases where people have been accused of sexual molestation, sexual abuse, satanic rituals with children, where it is purely the artifact of a therapist who decides that you have this problem and little by little elicits memories from you that are totally false. They are planted; they are conjured out of smoke ... Eventually - sometimes, if you're lucky - these people will recant, but the torture they put their families through is incredible because there are some people...
...author of The Pink Swastika, a book that alleges links between Nazism and what he calls a gay agenda to take over the world. Schmierer is a counselor with Exodus International, a U.S.-based ministry that seeks to use Christianity to overcome homosexual behavior. Brundidge is a therapist with the International Healing Foundation, which also claims to be able to turn gay people straight. (Read "Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired...
...including those controlling eye movement - but his brain functioned almost completely normally. He suffered from "locked-in syndrome," in which patients are aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate to the outside world. In the past three years, Houben has learned to talk through a computer: a language therapist traces his finger over a keypad and when it hovers over the desired letter, he contracts a muscle in his finger. He now has plans to write a book. "I screamed, but there was nothing to hear," Houben recently told a journalist through his computer. "So I dreamed myself away...
...communication," as it's called, is a hotly disputed method. Studies on its use in autistic patients have shown that caregivers - often in an earnest desire to help the patient - are sometimes themselves controlling the typing. Some of the news footage of Houben appears to show him and his therapist typing on his computer screen with his eyes closed. Earlier this week, Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told The Associated Press that Houben's communication was "Ouija board stuff. It's been discredited time and time again...
...Laureys defends Houben's communication technique, saying he has tested the accuracy of his messages by asking him to name certain objects without the help of his therapist. "The videos are very unfortunate and a very bad representation of his condition," Laureys tells TIME. "He was ignored for many years and now he's going through that again by people who make judgments based on the videos...