XPost: alt.psychology, sci.psychology, sci.psychology.psychotherapy   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   I was reading a recent special edition of Scientific American with   
   brain and mind as its theme.  One of the articles was about false   
   memory implantation and its connection to the "satanic ritual   
   abuse" hysteria that periodically grips America.   
      
   The article focused one woman's experience with false memories   
   after she visited a psychologist to deal with stress.  She had   
   hoped for some advice and perhaps an antidepressant pill, but   
   instead her "therapist" drugged and hypnotized her and made her   
   "remember" horrible events including being forced to consume a   
   human infant during a satanic ritual.  She is traumatized by it   
   and can't even go out in public because any little thing can   
   trigger memories of torture and cannibalism.   
      
   The worst thing is she paid good money for this abuse and not   
   only doesn't she get a refund, she is expected to pay yet   
   another "therapist" to help her recover from the trauma induced   
   by the first "therapist."  The second hypnosis will reveal that   
   she was actually abducted by aliens and given an anal probe.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)