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PresentationTo read a book - a real book on paper, sewn and bound - is easier than reading long files on-line: as previously done for the Italian pages of the Web site Bambini di ieri = adulti di oggi. Adulti di oggi -> adulti di domani also all English pages became a book: From children of YESTERDAY to adults of TOMORROW. However not in full the content does correspond: many references are only in one and not in the other; a more plentiful bibliography can be found in the English site and book, but some file/chapters are not included in both: markedly since many significant Italian files have not yet been translated.But instead, if in the English book many subjects are lacking, there are chapters absent in the Italian book: not only it endorses the "guest-pages" - Flashbacks, Screen memories, Dissociation and cults - but also just this file is printed as chapter only in the English book, whereas the Italian Bambini di ieri=adulti di oggi. Adulti di oggi->adulti di domani holds a corresponding but not mirroring Italian file (and chapter) Imbroglio è il contrario di sviluppo. The content of these pages are very different from each other but notwithstanding complementary together: completing and confirming the main purposes of the whole site/books: both share indirectly similar intents although using different subjects and quotations; both make known a strong message, with an assortment of data and concepts, alluding if not checking straight, to a rather pessimistic review of human weakness DUPED by stupidity and/or by human wickedness. Both have one side that prevails as it is more demonstrative: in this file/chapter the sleeping position is explained more in depth for its absolute stupidity and uselessness, nearing danger, and possibly even causing death. Imbroglio/sviluppo embodies an Italian pun not easy translated; moreover the whole file/chapter aroused from an Italian controversy regarding a far-reaching - although: personal - discussion. Thus it should be enlightening to read both files (and chapters of each book) to better consider their matching denunciation, evidenced from different sides: in many way, strengthened with many quotations, they both deplore human proneness to be DUPED and intimidated instead of being wise and perceptive; they both denounce the commonplace proclivity to prefer as a rule to be deceived and narrowed instead of to choose knowledge, thriving, development. The titles by themselves in sum up introduce a survey of the contrary of a thriving development/evolution: showing triumphant embroils, misleadings, ignorance,
fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of
causation
They emphasize the proneness of mankind to be
duped and to "develop" and "breed" incoherent superstitions: however so
crucial topics are displayed also in the Consciousness
and memory file/chapter (as well in the
Italian one Consapevolezza
e memoria) where they are also further
explained by
different
assortment
of quotations. But another file should be considered strictly
connected with them: as documentation
should be straight pointed out the
file/chapter Delgado
& Skinner
being their true, broadening
and explicative
extension. SUPERSTITION
2 entries found for superstition.
Main Entry: su·per·sti·tion. Pronunciation:
"sü-p&r-'sti-sh&n Function:
noun
Etymology: Middle
English supersticion, from Middle French, from Latin superstition-,
superstitio,
from superstit-, superstes standing over (as witness or survivor), from
super-
+ stare to stand
--
1
a : a belief
or
practice
resulting from
ignorance, fear of the unknown,
trust in magic or chance, or a false
conception
of causation
b : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition 2 : a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary |
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3
entries found
for dupe.
1 dupe
Pronunciation: 'düp
also 'dyüp Function: noun Etymology: French, from
Middle
French
duppe, probably alteration of huppe hoopoe: one
that is easily deceived or cheated: FOOL
2 dupe Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): duped; dup·ing: to make a dupe of - dup·er noun synonyms DUPE, GULL, TRICK, HOAX mean to deceive by underhanded means. DUPE suggests unwariness in the person deluded. GULL stresses credulousness or readiness to be imposed on (as through greed) on the part of the victim. TRICK implies an intent to delude by means of a ruse or fraud but does not always imply a vicious intent. HOAX implies the contriving of an elaborate or adroit imposture in order to deceive. 3 dupe Function: noun or verb: DUPLICATE Duplicate? multiple
personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder
[Each
personality
may alternately inhabit the person's conscious awareness to the
exclusion
of the others, but one is usually dominant. The
various
personalities
typically differ from one another in outlook, temperament, and body
language
and give themselves different first names. The condition is generally
viewed
as resulting from dissociative
mental processes — that is, the splitting off from
conscious
awareness
and control of thoughts, feelings, memories, and other mental
components
in response to situations that are painful, disturbing, or somehow
unacceptable
to the person experiencing them. Treatment is aimed at integrating the
disparate personalities back into a single and unified personality...]
An outraging, resentful file against Huxley's book Brave new world is endorsed into the below quoted site moreover against its search and crave to warn the "sacrifice" of motherhood, home, family, freedom, even love in the name of an universal [artificial] happiness: BRAVE NEW WORLD? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering (look below some quotes of it. Brave New World (1932) is one of the most bewitching andinsidious works of literature ever written. An exaggeration? Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction, notscientific prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might seem to miss the point. Yet the knee-jerk response of It's Brave New World! to any blueprint for chemically-driven happiness has delayed research into paradise-engineering for all sentient life. So how does Huxley turn a future where we're all notionally happy into the archetypal dystopia? If it's technically feasible, what's wrong with using biotechnology to get rid of mental pain altogether?Brave New World is an unsettling, loveless and even sinister place. This is because Huxley endows his "ideal" society with features calculated to alienate his audience. Typically, reading BNW elicits the very same disturbing feelings in the reader which the society it depicts has notionally vanquished - not a sense of joyful anticipation....Worse, it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most hallowed shibboleths of our culture: "motherhood", "home", "family", "freedom", even "love". The exchange yields an insipid happiness that's unworthy of the name.Its evocation arouses our unease and distaste.... It is however
revealing and
should
be read
the whole page
from which
came
the above excerpt
(Besides it is instead in sum up encouraging to catch a glimpse on a flankin side of Huxley's tought outlined by his wife - Laura Archera - and by her work in favour of a - from the very beginning - loved and really cared childhood.)
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Science and Superstition(460??377?
BC). The
first
name in the history of medicine is Hippocrates,
a physician from the island of Cos in ancient Greece. Known as the Father
of Medicine
Hippocrates has
long been associated with the Hippocratic
Oath,
a body of manuscripts,
which sets forth the obligations,
ideals, and ethics
of physicians.
This ethical code is adopted as a
guide to conduct by the medical profession throughout the ages and
still used
in the graduation ceremonies of
many medical schools. (From The
Internet Classics Archive)
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When, unlike a yogi, we do not choose our trances, and we are unaware of the types and nature of the pathological trances in our lives, then there are things we are unaware of. What we are unaware of causes more human suffering than the sometimes painful knowledge of the truth. One goal of a robust and magical life is to be as aware as possible of our options. When our unconscious pathological trances cripple our options the result is often disaster and tragedy in our personal lives, our society and in the environment. (From: Trance as a Tool)This consideration pertains either to negative re-living past memories or to almost unbearable present difficulties. But in the meantime what knowledge, what truth? People have to keep in view that - unreasonably - more human sufferings often arouse from the incapability to envisage the really impossible foresight of what will happen in the time to come: as is of course the knowledge of an unforeseen good or a painful mischance, or even only from the constant will to throw away unaccepted EMOTIONS. And thus, after having lost the truth, having dissociated themselves from the reality, mindlessly hinting at a global improvement, dimly warning against imaginary threatens and damages...: all this regards NOT only homogeneous, self-restrincting groups, but also cultured people goes on without any obstacle in a similar banalizing and undemonstrative way. A recent book - The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain (by Louis Cozolino) - presents its theories as very promising but with a double-edged meaning, also to be "used" in a double-edged way: as this can explain the possibility to heal even persons who suffered terrible past mishaps, so this can suggest also that the "superstitions' proneness" of humankind's nature can rather easily get too many people brain-washed almost before having realized to hold their own minds. It seems logical to believe that human beings can follow traditions, or trust on Religions (plural), or are “reason supporters”, or even - at least in the wealthy world - are pleased to play on changing customs and to promote new “fashions”, forgetting suddenly the previous ones. Religions could become dogmatic, devotees can behave as fanatics…, but also in the Western affluent and rational world sometimes for some unexpected facts a fashion becomes instead a MYTH, a SUPERSTITION: it is to say something unconscious, utterly dissociated from the real mind, and absolutely more gluing than Religious believing. In the case of health or of children rearing the FUTURE can give great grants and suddenly take them away, can give awful sorrows and effective precautions, but - what is often a worse danger - gets not only a lot of expecting and/or fearful emotions, but to avoid them a lot of … stupid countermeasures. Spontaneously (or more often fraudulently promoted) static and temporary "novelties" become fashionable. This fashion however is no longer ephemeral, but develops into FAITH and is flaunted and accepted without criticism as "the best". It is defended by conservative borders in every situation and results in absurd obedience - if not longing - to absurd and not fitting drug’s prescriptions and dosages.... (Here it should be said as an example a crucial assignment very broadly forewarn in space and time, a "duty" concerning a basic side of rearing babies: “Feed babies only EVERY four hours...” is one of typical decrees - so often producing in fact harmful consequences; but the real “grammar set up” of such an absurdity was found in a fanciful misunderstanding of the real text proposed - to can be reached in a little, from 1920s years magazine, by O.N.M.I. (Italian National Organization for Motherhood and Childhood): where was written Working women must feed their babies AT LEAST, [not LESS THAN!], every FOUR hours: without no delay. "Not delayed" mixed-up with "not less than"...: how is it possible that every similar banalizing and undemonstrative idea so validates or confirms itself in self-ingrained circles more often vicious? Besides: could regard only homogeneous, self-restrincting groups these hinting at a global - bogus - improvement? could this to be guided by - forged - alarms regard only simple if not moronic lay-persons? On the contrary not: everyone can see how everywhere these, even long terms and broad expanded, real superstitions develop into a faith; how do they become transformed into a glue which nobody and nothing can remove: not reason, not feelings, not results, even not - at least finally proclaimed - strong warnings of death danger (as for example the new-born position face down). And - what is more strange - nobody censures and/or rejects them: neither concerned (even if damaged) persons themselves, nor children's parents nor even professionals.
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acquired
by fearful parents as guarantees
against all life’s risks (look instead the main
Ippocrates
statement: Momentary occurs
life,
deceptive is knowledge, demanding is discernment;
but
doctors’
words in turn arise from their teachers’ words passed so often off evidence
based realities, mistaking doubtful and
self-confirming trials,
testing
at random more or less casual bizarre ideas. All the time vicious
circles renew themselves, and gullible people doesn't notice that too
often so-believed “theories” are changeable: and so personal behavior
have not to deal with actual truth but only with up-dating “fashions”.
As a
matter
of fact the parents’ weakness and stubborn lack of self-confidence, can
be directed in every - also difficult, illogical,
even dangerous
- direction: it sets to prescribe fixed behaviors
on the times,
tied even if told "advanced", compelling even if told
“permissive”. Maternal
instinct?
Static, temporary “novelties”, ephemeral changing fashions
are
proclaimed
and complied without any criticism for the time
being as “the
best”
- till new arrival -. So it is misleading to set stereotyped appraisals
as: old styled families are ideal and perfect, with their
typically
good fathers and mothers, as during the good old times; but
it is
as much as incorrect to state that the "new" is a sure
progressive
improvement. Modern families and modern way at rearing children?
Assured
with and more and more reliable systems for children's sake? Up-to-date
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MATERNAL INSTINCT? WORLDWIDE SPREAD CURRENT EXAMPLES OF DANGEROUS CONTRARY.
How could such brain-washing
methods
have taken so deep-seated roots? How can a pervasive, indirect mind-control
be so efficient? Why is it quite impossible to
convince even
keen
persons to avoid it? Nonsensical? And then: why moreover is it
so hard to stop everywhere such practices in spite
of any
warning
against? Comparable violations can happen only in Africa and in other
countries
of the Third World?
Violence
in the womb and at birth has always been a concern
to members
of APPPAH. Ironically, in modern hospital
birth, violence
and
pain have become routine for babies. For most of the 20th
century,
neither obstetricians nor psychologists have regarded pain as a reality
for newborns. Therefore, doctors have not hesitated to expose the baby
to a harsh environment at birth, or to introduce painful routines, or
painful
instruments...Babies protest being jabbed with
needles for blood
samples
and vitamin K shots, don't like to be turned upside down, rushed
through
space, and handled by different people. Their skin is extremely
sensitive
and they complain when rubbed and cleaned. We have been making them angry,
afraid, defensive, sad, and confused--for the greater part of
the
century. Sexual
Mutilations: A Human Tragedy by George
C. Denniston
and Marilyn F. Milos (Eds.) New York: Plenum
Publishing, 237
pages,
1997. ISBN=0306455897. The origins of circumcision are
approached
by
studying the distribution of sexual mutilations on the map of
continents
and their severity among indigenous cultures. The analysis
suggests
that Africa is the epicenter for altering the
genitalia of both
males and females.Frederick Hodges, now a medical history fellow at
Oxford,
supplies a fascinating history of how involuntary sexual
mutilation
was institutionalized in the United States. What began as a
cure
for
masturbation, and all the illnesses thought to be caused by onanism,
has
been lauded and subsequently dismissed as the cure for epilepsy,
immoral
behavior, cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases. Hodges argues,
quite
convincingly, that the validity of the current medical
justifications
do not differ much from the original justifications. He
notes,
"Whatever
incurable disease happens to be the focus of national attention in any
given time period will be the disease that circumcision advocates will
use as an excuse for circumcision. Circumcision
is part of mainstream American culture, and,
despite having its
medical credibility essentially decimated, it continues unabated....
A major portion of the book addresses the issue of female genital mutilation as currently practiced in parts of Africa. Berhane Ras-Work, the current president of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, provides a history of the organizational attempts to end the practice of FGM in Africa. Efforts started with general statements from international organizations and are now being implemented by people in the community. Outside interference is shunned and only acts to galvanize opposition. While the prevalence of FGM in Europe is unknown, Italian investigators - Amnesty International (°) presented their estimates of the number of genitally mutilated women in their country. Likewise, a representative of Germany's organization (I)NTACT spoke to how her country is responding to this practice. [(°) Sono almeno 135 milioni, secondo l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, le ragazze e le bambine che hanno subito mutilazioni sessuali e ogni anno se ne aggiungono altri due milioni. Le MGF sono praticate soprattutto in Africa e in alcuni paesi del Medio Oriente (Egitto, Yemen Emirati Arabi). Vi sono anche casi di mutilazioni in alcune parti dell'Asia, nelle Americhe e in Europa - compresa l'Italia - all'interno delle comunità di immigrati.] ![]() Female Genital Mutilation: Legal, Cultural and Medical Issues WHO
study group on female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome. Female
genital mutilation and obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective
study in six African countries. Lancet 2006 Jun 3;367(9525):1835-41.
Macabre tales
of
medical arrogance
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| ..un'idea
di bellezza
canora
durata oltre
tre Secoli dalla seconda metà del Cinquecento , inizio della
Controriforma, agli inizi
del Novecento
quando Alessandro Moreschi - the "last castrato " come lo battezzarono
i pioneristici discografici inglesi venuti a registrarne la voce - era
ancora attivo nella Cappella Sistina. Non fu veramente
l'ultimo,
abbiamo
testimonianze di anziani evirati vivi fino ai Sessanta,
ma dal
1903 un motu proprio Vaticano decise che non si potevano più
accogliere bambini castrati per addestrarli alla professione di
cantante.
Una voce pochissimo fa (di soprato e baritono) La Stampa giovedì 6 gennaio 2005 pag 25 Cultura e spettacoli. Vedi Il castrato di Simone Bartolini). Ma se nei secoli scorsi si castravano bambini per mantenerne la "voce bianca" e così ottenere dei soprani "speciali" la mutilazione sottocitata - ...un - creduto! - e ampiamente sbandierato successo del COMPORTAMENTISMO è ancora più raccapricciante nella sua quasi "banalità" di situazione "privata", ma esemplifica bene teoria, impostazione e principi del Comportamentismo stesso. E qui presento questa storia "privata": la storia di un caso singolo, ma non per questo meno significativa di una certa cultura pseudo-scientifica, di un certo modo ufficialmente programmatico di NON-RISPETTARE la Natura e gli esseri umani. |
Comment from Amazon.com Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of amedicaltragedyandits traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next14 yearstrying to transform him into a her.Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments. Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor, it's difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more than willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts of his parents, twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily female are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do "right" while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda makes the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name David and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments. David's ultimate successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close family relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public -- bring an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy, and the interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the gender he was meant to be. -- Jill Lightner -- This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Ma se nei
secoli scorsi si castravano
bambini per mantenerne la "voce bianca" e così ottenere dei soprani
"speciali", la mutilazione
sottocitata - ... un - creduto! - e ampiamente sbandierato successo del
COMPORTAMENTISMO è
ancora più raccapricciante nella sua quasi "banalità" di
situazione "privata"ed esemplifica bene teoria,
impostazione e principi del Comportamentismo stesso.
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The
True Story of JOHN-> JOAN The Rolling
Stone,
December
11,
1997. Pages 54-97) considered
one of the main triumph
of behaviorism.
As
Nature Made Him:The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
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A poignant
case of
Therapeutic Abortion for - only presumed
- fetal malformation: resulting instead in birth of a living immature
baby; and then resulting in an appalling show of over-treatment.
Just at March 8 - Women' s Day - an official new comes from a
mainstream Italian HospitalThe final outcome was a weekly lasting agony. A REDOUBLED TRICKERY: Eugenics and Therapeutic Obstinacy - over-treatment . Azienda ospedaliera Careggi
·
Mother wanted procedure
after fears of abnormality
· Law requires resuscitation if foetus shows signs of life A
baby was struggling for life in an intensive care unit in Florence
yesterday after being resuscitated following an attempted abortion at
22 weeks' gestation because of indications of abnormalities which
turned out to be false.
The
baby's mother, who has not been
identified, was admitted to hospital for a late abortion at the end of
last week after being told her child might have abnormalities. The
child showed signs of life after the procedure and, under
Italian law,
doctors were obliged to try to save it.
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AMNIOCENTESIS (or...EUGENICS?): Amniocentesis is a diagnostic procedure performed by inserting a hollow needle through the abdominal wall into the uterus and withdrawing a small amount of fluid from the sac surrounding the fetus. Amniocentesis can be used to diagnose a large number of genetic and chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus. In addition, it is helpful in the diagnosis of the severity of Rh incompatibility, lung maturity, and neural tube defects (such as spina bifida). There is a slight chance of infection or injury to the fetus. There is even a smaller chance of miscarriage. (Abortion - spontaneous) This test is typically performed when a problem is suspected, so the benefits outweigh the risk.To have amniocentesis is a surely invasive - and even expensive - harming practice for both: mother (having abdomen adhesions for ever) and child (risking to have feet, legs, genitals... damaged, or rather: all the more, to die in miscarriage!). But moreover what is the result of this "safety-making" (???) screening? An EUGENIC "not abortion" but induced premature birth to eliminate - perhaps still living - "not eugenic" baby!


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In his book -First
Year of Life: A Psychoanalytic Study of Normal and
Deviant
Development of Object Relations René
Spitz considered this position typical of the anaclitic
depression when he applied this term to
the behavior of
infants
separated from "good" mothers for extended periods of time in hospital. After three months of separation from mother displays of distress in the infants studied would be replaced by vacant unresponsiveness. |
open
to future
| Il faut garder sa liberte' d'esprit et croire que DANS LA NATURE L'ABSURDE SUIVANT NOS THEORIES N'EST PAS TOUJOURS IMPOSSIBLE (Claude Bernard) |
