Comments on: Bieber Study Co-Author, Cornelia Wilbur, Accused of Fabricating Case of Sybil https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 18:46:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: StraightGrandmother https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-84402 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:46:12 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-84402 Just random… When I watched this video I was struck by how normal these people are and how MEAN we are to them for no good reason that I can figure out
http://youtu.be/1H_yfhRXA3Y
Why are we as a society hurting these people? Why?
Number 2 random… A grad student taking a business call was told by her instructor (Professor?)

During a discussion that turned to homosexuality, her business professor, who has not been identified, called it “disgusting, unnatural, and abnormal” and when Santiago identified herself as a lesbian he told her that the words applied to her. The teacher continued, telling her that “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Adam.

Make sure and watch the video that is in the news article.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/10/indianasantiago.html#ixzz1b5jcds8i
This is a school with 15,000 students and a quick look shows it does not look to be religiously based. Again we see attacks on sexual minorities (don’t forget the New Jersey Special Education teacher who lashed out against sexual minorities last week on Facebook) that the perpetrator justifies the attacks based on the Bible.
If you regularly read news from the gay community like I do, you come to understand that these incidents are just another day. These incidents happen day in and day out, every day 24/7/365. Learning about sexual minorities has been a real eye opener for me. Equally eye opening is learning about the Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons who are dead set against sexual minorities being granted Equal Civil Rights.
I also read today that Montana voted to maintain their unenforceable sodomy law on the books. Even though it cannot be enforced after the 2003 Supreme Court decision in Lawrence vs. Texas, the legislators in Montana still want to keep it on the books, must be simply for symbolism and to send a message.
I really have a hard time with this. What is wrong with our country, it is like mass prejudice and stupidity. Look at that first video, there is nothing wrong with those people, I just see them as fellow American citizens. I do not get why our governments DISCRIMINATE against them, and the govt. permits private DISCRIMINATION against them also. I do not understand this at all. I don’t get it.

]]> By: stephen https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-77829 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:58:53 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-77829 Here’s a turn-up for the books. BTW. It was Joanne Woodward who did the original film and won the Oscar. Terrible performance in an utterly silly film. I can’t say I’m surprised. But I had no idea there was some link between that malarkey and so-called reparative therapy.

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-53649 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:32:23 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-53649 Creeeeepy.

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-84708 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:32:23 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-84708 Creeeeepy.

]]> By: Michael Bussee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-53648 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:29:29 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-53648

I should add that some in the Christian community were thrilled with the idea of MPD, because it came with terrifying stories of witches and covens and death rituals and animal sacrifices

I know that one of the founders of Exodus, Greg Reid, was quite thrilled by it. After he quietly left Exodus, he got a very questionable honorary “doctorate” degree and became a self-proclaimed “expert” on “ritual satanic abuse”. He claims he was a victim of such rituals, that he was the “real Harry Potter” and that he could move things just by thinking about it, etc. He told me he thought that’s what might have caused him to be gay.
About the time “Sybil” came out, a whole slew of “ex-gay” programs latched on to the idea of “repressed memories” and “healing of memories” to explain why so many “ex-gays” couldn’t remember how they had been traumatized into being homosexual. Many were told that such repressed abuse is what led to the “demonic possession or oppression” at the root of their “same sex attractions”.
http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/acceleration-radio-satanic-ritual-abuse-w-dr-gregory-reid/

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-53647 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:34:39 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-53647 I should add that some in the Christian community were thrilled with the idea of MPD, because it came with terrifying stories of witches and covens and death rituals and animal sacrifices.
I don’t think the APA ever came out and condemned this era of psychology.
See Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” for a story that could have informed both psychology and Christianity to protect the consumer.
Unfortunately it was not to be…the idiocy of Sybil and MPD on Oprah and elsewhere continued much longer than the Salem Witch Trials.

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-53646 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:29:03 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-53646 This is a great catch Warren.
Especially as the MPD drama built in the 80’s and 90’s; and spurred the whole confusion of false memories.
This was a diagnosis built for TV and the movies…and expanded the power and authority of mental health professionals.
It is important that the outrage that some have toward Reparative Drive theory understand that its root lie in a problem generally minimized in psychology: That Psychology often tries to assert that it know more than it actually does.
MPD (or it’s new name, DID) was overdiagnosed for much of the 90’s. Many fabrications needed to be created to justify these diagnoses.
Getting an healthier, less market-driven, less politically driven, psychology will be better for consumers.

]]> By: Michael Bussee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-84700 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:29:29 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-84700

I should add that some in the Christian community were thrilled with the idea of MPD, because it came with terrifying stories of witches and covens and death rituals and animal sacrifices

I know that one of the founders of Exodus, Greg Reid, was quite thrilled by it. After he quietly left Exodus, he got a very questionable honorary “doctorate” degree and became a self-proclaimed “expert” on “ritual satanic abuse”. He claims he was a victim of such rituals, that he was the “real Harry Potter” and that he could move things just by thinking about it, etc. He told me he thought that’s what might have caused him to be gay.
About the time “Sybil” came out, a whole slew of “ex-gay” programs latched on to the idea of “repressed memories” and “healing of memories” to explain why so many “ex-gays” couldn’t remember how they had been traumatized into being homosexual. Many were told that such repressed abuse is what led to the “demonic possession or oppression” at the root of their “same sex attractions”.
http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/acceleration-radio-satanic-ritual-abuse-w-dr-gregory-reid/

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-84698 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:34:39 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-84698 I should add that some in the Christian community were thrilled with the idea of MPD, because it came with terrifying stories of witches and covens and death rituals and animal sacrifices.
I don’t think the APA ever came out and condemned this era of psychology.
See Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” for a story that could have informed both psychology and Christianity to protect the consumer.
Unfortunately it was not to be…the idiocy of Sybil and MPD on Oprah and elsewhere continued much longer than the Salem Witch Trials.

]]> By: David Blakeslee https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/17/bieber-study-co-author-cornelia-wilbur-accused-of-fabricating-case-of-sybil/#comment-84695 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:29:03 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10429#comment-84695 This is a great catch Warren.
Especially as the MPD drama built in the 80’s and 90’s; and spurred the whole confusion of false memories.
This was a diagnosis built for TV and the movies…and expanded the power and authority of mental health professionals.
It is important that the outrage that some have toward Reparative Drive theory understand that its root lie in a problem generally minimized in psychology: That Psychology often tries to assert that it know more than it actually does.
MPD (or it’s new name, DID) was overdiagnosed for much of the 90’s. Many fabrications needed to be created to justify these diagnoses.
Getting an healthier, less market-driven, less politically driven, psychology will be better for consumers.

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