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Child sex
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The wisdom of
Gordon Waugh - Index |
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Ever since clinical
psychologists began to manufacture victims, they have filled libraries with
journals, papers and studies purporting to link causes of adult problems to
childhood abuse. The assumptions and beliefs on which they rely have misled
the public. They eschew evidence-based scientific research. Dr John Read's latest
flight of imagination (Mar 14) links hallucinations in psychiatric patients
to childhood abuse and purports to compare abused and non-abused patients. He
claims that nearly half of the 200 community mental health clients studied
had been abused sexually or physically. Why didn't your health
reporter ask the critical question "Where is the proof that they were in
fact abused ?" Read's
"research" has consistently failed to provide independent
corroboration or testable evidence of such abuse, yet has recklessly linked
abuse to schizophrenia and now links abuse to hallucinations of vision and
all other senses. Until he can provide acceptable proof of abuse, he has
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