BloomInWinter, what IS Dr. Kihlstrom saying, as you interpreted it?
This is JUST my opinion. Quotes are from the podcast.
"I have clinical training but have not ...since my internship seen patients" John Kihlstrom
...but he's certainly testified many times against other clinician's while 'expertly' defending pedos. Quite the lucrative career as an expert 'repressed memory' denialist testifying
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"So-called prospective studies of trauma victims show that amnesia doesn't play a major role in their symptomatology. In fact there's NO evidence for any kind of psychological process, like repression or disassocation instigated by trauma causing somebody to be amnesic ah, for a traumatic event. That evidence just isn't there, surprisingly."
Huh. HOW does he make that kind of leap? I call 'logical fallacy'! Wouldn't it be great if on follow-up, he was asked to produce just ONE of these so-called 'prospective studies?'
This gem...
"The criteria for a traumatic event are very, very loose. Virtually anything can be called a trauma, in part because trauma is always diagnosed from the point of view of the trauma victim. Um, but, in fact, people who are exposed to trauma, their typical view is that they remember their trauma all too well. That's the key, unwanted intrusive memory is a key symptom of, ah, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. So, it's kind of hard to understand how it is that trauma could actually instigate these kinds of amnesias; we don't see them in people with verified trauma. We just don't see it."
Yeah, I call BS. …AND I’ve got the symptoms to prove it. …AND I’ve got the lovely court transcripts & police witnesses & professor colleagues to prove I have the trauma. So…I must be unique?
“Disassociative disorder comes from somewhere but it doesn't necessary reflect something that has happened to somebody who has been traumatized.”
So…if we can't remember or disassociate, we must either be lying, imagining it, or defective? Wow…no wonder pedos list him as a ‘recommended’ resource. ...and it leads MOST people unfamiliar with first-hand violence down the well-carved cultural neuropathway of victim-blaming. Because blame - so much safer for most to process than having to face the scary fact that violence could happen to ANYONE - for NO reason at all - other than random sick perp.
[Questioned about Rape]
“Well, again, as far as...there's a lot of amnesia in rape, but then again, in case of the rape, but then again, that takes place under conditions of violence or, or alcohol intoxication, or um, or whatever. This is not to blame rape victims, just a simple fact of the kinds of circumstances that these things occur in. And when you've got violence, physical trauma, when you've got alcohol intoxication, ah, for example, um, ah, when you've got someone ah, being, ah, attacked out of nowhere, it's very likely that they won't remember very much of the incident but it's not because of repression or disassociation; it's because of normal memory processes.”
So…it’s not the rape trauma that causes people to lose memory, it’s just normal memory processes? Yeah, great - keep promoting the idea that REPRESSION ISN'T REAL - therefore keeping the 'VICTIMS ARE LIARS' number 1 pedo/perp defense in play. That it's a lucrative career - being paid to testify to this position - surely doesn't bias his professional 'opinions' or 'research,' either?
GREAT for an ‘Expert’ to tell this to juries (many who have a 7th – 9th grade reading level.) Calling the ‘unknown’ that big…’something’…leaving juries to ‘fill in the blank’ themselves? All too often, this doubt gets filled in with the victim blaming that is the most culturally acceptable puzzle piece to fit into this schema.
I have big problems with this podcast.
I can only hope that someday, we can all be a part of giving the needed evidence-based info needed to dispute it as the BUNK I believe it to be.
For any victims who lost their chance at justice thanks in part to his 'Expert' testimony, I believe you.
