>>> Dennis Menard on Memory 
 DM> Unfortunately, making "other people" responsible for all one's
 DM> problems is much easier than trying to take some responsibility for
 DM> one's own problems, and thinking for one's own self.  :(
Scape goating is at least as old as goat herding and milking.
 
 WE> ... Therapist = The rapist.
 DM> :)  I shouldn't laugh, but ... good one.
'Tas a feminist joke I plagiarized.  Enjoy.
 DM> Okay, here's Stanley Milgram's research in easy, point form.  Keep in
 DM> mind that what prompted him was the question whether the blind
 DM> obedience that was so clearly exhibited by Hitler's followers, and
 DM> which resulted in the WWII holocaust, could be "possible" in the U.S. 
 DM> He began with the pre-conception that it could NOT happen in America.
I may have seen this when you posted it before and have also hear about this 
before.  Both social pressure and false memory are ways of defrauding 
oneself.  As I recall the experiment was abandoned as the results were 
becoming too dramatic, some of the subjects enjoyed what they were doing too 
much.  As I understood, the 'victim' was actually acting.
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