Tag: ptsd
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“I’d Make Him My Man”
Sometimes victims of horrific crimes are beguiled, induced or traumatised into deliberately making wrongful identifications. This may be attributed to PTSD, manipulation, confabulation or rage. Here is one story where this nearly happened, if it hadn’t have been for a cooler head. The Man on the Mountain Los Angeles Times Magazine, page 11, 1st May…
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Who Will Pick Up the Pieces?
Interview with Faye Snyder in 1990 Faye: “Could you talk about some of your childhood trauma?“ Richard Ramirez: “I know enough about psychoanalysis to know what you want of me. Right now, I’m strong. You want me to remember things with you, but the mind is like a jigsaw puzzle: You take one piece out,…