Shining the Light on Recovered Memory

Is therapy today a safe place?
Are therapist explanations and methods reasonable?

Let's explore these questions and alternatives together.

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"As Reason is a Rebel unto Faith, so Passion unto Reason" Thomas Browne

"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in" --Aesop

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"
Edmund Burke

"Is a man to be judged guilty just because he is accused?...Devout persons...will always be liable to face such accusations as long as there exist slanderers...Thus we must go not by the accusation but by the verdict."
Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

"Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?"
Sir Francis Bacon

"...rebels who fear punishment for their crimes which they never regard as unjust and are readily convinced that they are violently oppressed, will at the same time believe that the right of self-defence extends to whatever is necessary to protect oneself from any injury. They will no longer have to overcome the pangs of conscience which check most crimes at birth, and will only think of overcoming external circumstances." Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies"
Sir Winston Churchill

"If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal, to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth." Sir Francis Bacon

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy" Thomas Jefferson
couldn't we say the same about therapists?

"Enlighten people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day"-- Thomas Jefferson

"The life that is unexamined is not worth living" Plato

All truth passes through 3 stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Shopenhauer (1788-1860)

"...mankind are divided...those who think only as they are bid to think....whose humbler lot it is to be directed by others. They are ...bewildered...enflamed by certain words and sounds of almost magical potency to attempt the reformation of some imaginary abuses, of which never having felt the grievance, it is hardly possible they should have any distinct conception of their nature."
Jonathan Boucher

"Lucifer was the first author and founder of rebellion; which is the first, the greatest, and the root of all other sins. Kings and princes, as well the evil as the good do reign by God's ordinance and subjects are bound to obey them, and for no cause to resist, or withstand, or rebel or make any sedition against them, although they be wicked men."

"A rebel is worse than the worse prince and rebellion worse than the worst government of the worst prince that hath hitherto been."

"love of liberty...carries us to withstand tyranny, will carry us to reverence authority, and to support it for this obvious reason that one is as necessary to the being of liberty, as the other is destructive of it...love of liberty which is not a real principle of dutiful behavior towards authority, is as hypocritical as religion which is not productive of a good life." {p 510}

Jonathan Boucher, A view of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution

"A people, then, must always be less free in proportion as they are more licentious;" "....True liberty, then is a liberty to do every thing that is right, and the being restrained from doing anything that is wrong." {p.510}

"Good wombs have borne bad sons"
William Shakespeare--The Tempest, Act I

Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy. I must be held a rancorous enemy. Cannot a plain man live and think no harm, But thus his simple truth must be abused By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

William Shakespeare--Richard III--Act I

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