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Empty Chairs by Stacey Danson

By On July 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Empty Chairs is a recently released narrative nonfiction by Stacey Danson that you can purchase here. User discretion is advised as it is a chilling tale of the author’s prostitution by her mother from infancy, and her struggle to escape and survive the horrific effects of childhood sexual abuse. The [...]

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The Seven Dragons

By On November 23, 2010 · 6 Comments

Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News Blog will know that my mother died in 1966 when I was about five years old. What they may not know is that I have had an on again off again problem with smoking, which might seem quite hypocritical given that I wrote a book called [...]

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Trauma Spectrum Disorders (TSD) Gets its Place in the Sun

By On February 18, 2010 · 1 Comment

Back in 1999 I was asked to write an editorial for the American Journal of Psychiatry about a group of articles in the journal on Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Prior versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) had a PTSD, acute (less than one month) and chronic types. The DSM-IV dropped the acute [...]

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 3

By On May 12, 2009 · 4 Comments

In the first and second parts of this multi-part posting, I described the effects of my mother’s death when I was four and a half years old on my life. This continues on how in my adult life I sought out her history.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 2

By On May 11, 2009 · 9 Comments

In the last post (“Brief History of My Mom, Part 1″) I wrote about my Mom’s sudden death when I was four and half years old. That was a terrible blow for me. She was a radiant person who was described as “turning on like a light bulb” when her friends walked into the room.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 1

By On May 10, 2009 · 20 Comments

Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just say “47″). Anyhoo it pops out in my blogs here and there and to be honest I felt like I was putting myself out there or taking a risk somehow by talking about it. After she died my father soon remarried and it was not a topic of frequent conversation, shall we say.

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More Bullshit Research About a Pill That Will Erase Bad Memories

By On February 18, 2009 · 9 Comments

This week’s issue of Nature Neuroscience has an article entitled “Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear.” Well if the title of the article wasn’t enough to get your juices rolling I can tell you that they basically claim that they have discovered a pill that will erase [...]

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