Scott Badger wrote:
> >>I regret that the human emotional system seems to be designed so that high
Did you know that sneezing causes permanent brain damage? If this is so, why are
Mike Lorrey
> >>levels of stress are needed to really grow up.
> >
> >Well you better get that level of stress just right: the recent Society for
> >Neuroscience meeting suggests that childhood abuse (emotional not physical)
> >may lead to permenant brain damage:
> >
> >http://biomednet.com/biomednews/conf/sfn98/Monday/story_2.html
> >
> >ciao, patrick
> >
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> >Patrick Wilken http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~patrickw/
> >Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
> >Secretary: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
> >http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/
>
> I have long suspected this to be true. It led me to wonder . . . If we can
> confirm this and it becomes accepted as fact, will verbal and emotional
> abuse be punishable by the same laws which deal with physical abuse?
> I used to work in a domestic violence shelter and it seemed odd to me
> that someone could be arrested and jailed for beating someone but
> there was no penalty whatsoever for verbal/emotional abuse. Would
> you have to have a way to verify that neural damage had been inflicted?
>