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“However, as well intentioned as it may be, the sudden unveiling of ones body in the presence of several observers causes humiliation and embarrassment, which in turn results in increased stress and retards healing.”

Nursing Expert Witness Issue #4 - Post Traumatic Stress and the Nursing Diagnosis Part 2 The Recovery Phase
July 30th, 2008 ·
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Thomas A. Sharon, R.N., M.P.H.

It is important for an attorney to note that the key to determine whether or not a client is malingering to enhance the potential damage award is to review the therapeutic encounters. There must be a paper trail showing the process of diagnosis and attempts to assist the client in making improvements through thought, speech and action. Therefore it is imperative to understand the various conditions that result from a response to trauma and how they are treated.
The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Post Traumatic Stress Responses

As mentioned in the last issue, trauma is a sudden event that alters the course of a person’s life. The change can be temporary or permanent and affects every aspect of being. All goals and expectations developed over a lifetime are instantly stripped away with nothing to look forward to except pain and anguish. If that weren’t enough, the road to recovery is fraught with obstacles, i.e. harmful coping mechanisms and responses such as flash backs, recurrent nightmares, intrusive thoughts, sleep deprivation, chronic pain, alterations in body image, self esteem and social relationships, loss of independence, lower frustration tolerance, irritability, inappropriate startle responses to common sounds and alterations in danger perception. Additionally, as mentioned previously, most of us have experienced a traumatic event at on time or another and all human beings experience various emotional responses. However, given how the legal system has evolved, it is now crucial to be able to distinguish between resolvable responses and responsive pathology. Accordingly, we now turn our attention to understanding the dynamics of how legitimate therapists will identify and resolve those responses, so that the attorney can know when there is legitimate evidence of pathology indicating an extended period of pain and suffering that meets legal threshold requirements.

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Comment : Dr. Lynch: From Article:

“Young people are often beaten, tortured and humiliated in public in order to intimidate the population and deter others from joining their ranks.”

ANOTHER MASS KILLING IN IRAN: AN AFFRONT TO HUMAN DIGNITY
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
alirezajafarzadeh-100By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News
With its usual unparalleled barbarity, the ayatollahs’ regime marked the 20th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran with “the largest mass execution in years,” according to eyewitness accounts and reports by human rights groups. On Sunday, July 27, 2008, at dawn, 29 people were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, the site of thousands of executions as part of 30,000 political executions in Iran in a spate of a few months in summer of 1988.

Many of those executed on Sunday were dissidents arrested during last June’s fuel uprisings in Iran. Tehran often describes as “thugs” the restive youths arrested by the State Security Force (SSF) for staging antigovernment protests and demonstrations. Young people are often beaten, tortured and humiliated in public in order to intimidate the population and deter others from joining their ranks.

The European Union’s French presidency strongly condemned the 29 hangings, adding, “The Iranian regime’s action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity.”

In recent weeks, news reports from Iran indicated that eight women and one man are waiting to be stoned to death. Their sentence defies the so-called moratorium on stoning announced in 2002 by the mullahs’ Chief Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. According to BBC World Service, at least “three people are reported to have been executed by stoning since then.” In July 2007, the regime stoned to death Jafar Kiani in the northern Iranian city of Takestan.

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Comment : Dr. Lynch: From Article:

“Further, they have been systematically subjected to torture and to sexual and religious humilation, as were inmates at Abu Ghraid in Iraq.”

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Guantanamo Prison Camp activist speaks at KVCC
MARTHA ALLEN, News Correspondent
KEENE VALLEY — A diverse group of about 30 people, some members of the congregation, others from out of town, gathered at Keene Valley Congregational Church on the evening of Aug. 8 to hear Matt Daloisio, associate editor of the “Catholic Worker,” speak.

The subject of his speech, accompanied by slides, was the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He spoke about a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007 to advocate for Guantanamo inmates’ legal rights, and the activist religious group who embarked on “a pilgrimage to shut down Guantanamo” in December 2005.

His son Tobias played at his feet, sometimes climbing into his lap before being retrieved by his mother, Amamnda Daloisio, also an editor at the Catholic Worker. Daloisio discussed with his audience the problems involved in closing Guantanamo, with possible repatriation of some of its inmates. He said it can be used as a “squeaky wheel” to bear pressure on the subjects of torture and foreign prisons, although he said that, due to its exposure, Guantanamo is the best of the U.S. prisons on foreign soil.

“We do what is right because it’s right,” he said. “Perhaps we can be effective. Two presidential candidates (Obama and McCain) say that they will close Guantanamo.”

He told the group that there will be a public fast and peaceful protest outside the White House Jan. 11 until inauguration day Jan. 20. A group will remain, Monday through Friday, until May 9, protesting torture, rendition and treatment of inmates at the prison at Guantanamo.

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Comment : Dr. Lynch: From Article:

“Finally, I could take it no more. One Sunday morning, just after breakfast and another routine humiliation for Maud - this time about her wanting another spread of jam on her toast - I confronted Annette about her behaviour.”

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The vulnerable elderly who are at the mercy of care home sadists

By Sonia Poulton
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A while ago, I decided to pursue a life-long ambition and took a break from journalism to study psychology. I have always been fascinated by human behaviour - and the underlying thought processes that drive it - and I yearned for an academic understanding.

Three years later, having studied the full span of human development, I was particularly drawn to the psychology of people in the later stages of life. Seeking more practical knowledge, I applied for a job as a carer in a residential home for the elderly.

When I was asked to go in for a job interview, I was thrilled. The role would enable me to put some of my academic learning into practice. In fact, what I witnessed during the following six months still haunts me. Residents were bullied and treated with contempt. Their physical and mental frailties were cruelly mocked and some were singled-out for particularly demeaning treatment.

The notion that I, too, may end my days in a residential care home is terrifying. By 2030, it is estimated that almost one in ten of the elderly population will live in a residential care home. It is a bleak prospect.

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<strong> It is Putin who has believed that the dismemberment of the Soviet Union is a profound humilation, but perhaps only a temporary disaster that might one day – under a strong enough leader – be reversed. He has loathed the Georgian President since the two met in 2004. He made the crushing of Chechen separatists his own mission. And he found the recent Western rebuff to Russian wishes over Kosovo enraging.</strong>

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Georgia: The puppet Medvedev is left dangling by an action man called Putin

The body language said it all. Dmitri Medvedev, Russia’s so-called President, meeting the French President in Moscow yesterday, looked tense and subdued, a pale face above a dead-white shirt, sitting cramped in one of the Kremlin’s gilt chairs as Nicolas Sarkozy took up the airspace with expansive hand gestures. In contrast, Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister (the role he chose when appointing Medvedev as his successor), has been relaxed, leaning back in his chair, using long answers to shut out other speakers in chairing his Cabinet and in public appearances.

The past five days have answered the puzzle of who is running Russia. Putin is clearly in charge; Medvedev has seemed like his puppet. Putin flew from the Olympic Games to the border of South Ossetia, an action man dashing in to comfort terrified civilians. Medvedev has been confined to the Kremlin.

“I have taken the decision to end the operation to force the Georgian authorities into peace,” Medvedev was quoted as saying yesterday. At best (for Medvedev’s cause), he was offering the softer side of Russia, the conciliatory President to Putin’s hardline Prime Minister. But it is hard to see any signs of his independent action in Russia’s retaliation, so heavily flavoured with Putin’s old obsessions.
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“Unregistered Muslim religious activity has mainly been punished under Criminal Code Articles 159 “attempts to change the constitutional order”; 242 “organisation of a criminal society” and Article 156. This article bans “acts intended to humiliate ethnic honour and dignity, insult the religious or atheistic feelings of individuals, carried out with the purpose of inciting hatred, intolerance, or divisions on a national, ethnic, racial, or religious basis, as well as the explicit or implicit limitation of rights or preferences on the basis of national, racial, or ethnic origin, or religious beliefs.” This article has also been used against religious minorities.”

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UZBEKISTAN: Religious freedom survey, August 2008

By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service , and
John Kinahan, Forum 18 News Service

In its survey analysis of religious freedom in Uzbekistan, Forum 18 News Service has found continuing violations by the state of freedom of thought, conscience and belief. Amongst many serious violations – which breach the country’s international human rights commitments - non-state registered religious activity is a criminal offence, as is the sharing of beliefs and meetings for religious purposes in private homes. Religious communities are raided with impunity and their members threatened, assaulted and even tortured. Prisoner of conscience numbers are increasing. The state continues to actively promote religious hatred and intolerance through the state-controlled mass media. Members of religious communities complain that trials are often conducted unfairly. Oppressive laws are symptomatic of oppressive official attitudes, and state officials do not appear to acknowledge any restraints on their actions. The state seeks to completely control all religious activity – by Muslims and religious minorities such as Christians, Baha’is, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews and Hare Krishna devotees - through a web of laws, NSS secret police agents, censorship and the activities of public agencies such as local administrations.

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Dealing with power-crazy people in the workplace

THE workplace is where you spend most of your waking hours, and as such the time spent should not only be productive but enjoyable.

There are persons, however, who dread going to work not because of the high-stress nature of the job, but because they have to interact with individuals at the workplace whose agenda it is to make life a living hell.

It would appear that while the rest of us put on our uni-forms/working clothes ready for a good day at work, these people put on their battle gear and their war paint ready for combat. They are convinced in their minds that they are God’s gift to the company/ institution and that they have the sole right to belittle and intimidate everyone - particularly those who are lower in rank or position.

These power-crazy people would tell you that the workplace is not a place for cowards and wimps, and that it is quite in order for them to shout at you or use expletives in order for them to fully express themselves. Whereas one would agree that the place of work is for mature adults, it is for the same reason that adults should not be treated like children and should be accorded the respect that an adult deserves, regardless of one’s emotional and psychological fortitude or lack thereof.

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Dear Friends and colleagues,

My new children’s book , DignityRocks! is now available through HappyAbout Publications. This book is designed for elementary school children, middle school, and even adults, to open up discussions on self-respect, dignity, and the somebody/nobody model. The contents are the same feedback from students as the first book, but there is an educational instructional page in the back of the book, which has been designed from input I received from teachers, educational professionals, and parents. This page covers an easy technique for;Reading, Relating, Recognizing, Reinforcing , Lifeskills and character development methodologies.

Please take a look at the new cover (Thanks to Simon Goodway, you are truly brilliant!), and if convenient, forward this information along to others, especially in the educational field.

Thank you for your continued support, good wishes, and the work you do yourselves in the preservation, promotion, and protection of dignity in your everyday interactions.

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Dignity does Rock! Dignity matters, dignity for all!

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Please note: Shame and Humiliation Discussion Board

By Brian Lynch

April 11, 2008

Dear HDHS members and all other readers I wish to and am pleased to make you aware of my now functioning discussion board.

It can be found at: Discusssion Board

Here I would hope you will find a number of things of interest concerning our work in humiliation studies just as you do at this HDHS site.

My own work over the years has emphasized the work of the psychologist Sivan S. Tomkins and I only see HDHS as an extension of that, for me, as Tomkins has so much to say about shame and humiliation.

I have tried to make the site, and hope it to continue to be, a clearinghouse for research and a bibliography not only on Tomkins but various aspects of shame and humiliation, but more than anything I hope it engenders some lively discourse.

I have had a good bit of difficulty in getting a functioning board up as I believe others have had, even here. It was shut down by spam for a long time. I am now assured I have the proper security so that things will run smoothly and we will be safe. It only took over two years!

So please come and take a look, register and participate. Registration has to be approved, which means I just send back an email to you.

Thank you.

Brian Lynch

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From Article:”A car the color of a school bus pulls up with a boy who tells his brother beside him that he’s going to beat up Billy Wolfe. While one records the assault with a cellphone camera, the other walks up to the oblivious Billy and punches him hard enough to leave a fist-size welt on his forehead. “

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All lank and bone, the boy stands at the corner with his younger sister, waiting for the yellow bus that takes them to their respective schools. He is Billy Wolfe, high school sophomore, struggling.

Moments earlier he left the sanctuary that is his home, passing those framed photographs of himself as a carefree child, back when he was 5. And now he is at the bus stop, wearing a baseball cap, vulnerable at 15.

A car the color of a school bus pulls up with a boy who tells his brother beside him that he’s going to beat up Billy Wolfe. While one records the assault with a cellphone camera, the other walks up to the oblivious Billy and punches him hard enough to leave a fist-size welt on his forehead.

The video shows Billy staggering, then dropping his book bag to fight back, lanky arms flailing. But the screams of his sister stop things cold.

The aggressor heads to school, to show friends the video of his Billy moment, while Billy heads home, again. It’s not yet 8 in the morning.

Bullying is everywhere, including here in Fayetteville, a city of 60,000 with one of the country’s better school systems. A decade ago a Fayetteville student was mercilessly harassed and beaten for being gay. After a complaint was filed with the Office of Civil Rights, the district adopted procedures to promote tolerance and respect — none of which seems to have been of much comfort to Billy Wolfe.

It remains unclear why Billy became a target at age 12; schoolyard anthropology can be so nuanced. Maybe because he was so tall, or wore glasses then, or has a learning disability that affects his reading comprehension. Or maybe some kids were just bored. Or angry.

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