R: R: Child Discipline and Cultural Controversies

["Oddone Virginio" <oddovir@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Wilson,

Benvenuto Cellini, great italian artist of the XVI century, whose sculpture
"Perseo and the Gorgon" stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence (those
of the C.M. Researchers who went there certainly saw - and took picture of
- it), and who was also in his time credited as a sharp shooter (during the
Rome siege of 1527) and quite an irksome and deviant character, says in his
Memories that as a child he saw a salamander in the fire (salamanders were
once believed to go freely in the flames). His father slapped him violently
in the face, so that he would keep forever the memory of that wonder.

As for van der Kolk, it might be  in Harv Rev Psychiatry 1994
Jan-Feb;1(5):253-65, "The body keeps the score: memory and the evolving
psychobiology of posttraumatic stress.".

Virginio Oddone
Turin, Italy
oddovi@xxxxxxxxx


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> Da: Roy W Wilson <rwwst6+@xxxxxxxx>
> A: Child Maltreatment Researchers  
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Oggetto: Re: R: Child Discipline and Cultural Controversies
> Data: luned“ 18 gennaio 1999 22.04
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> Karen,
> 	I am thinking of research (by
> Bessell van der Kolk and others) suggesting that "trauma" induces
> long-term changes in brain-chemistry thought to be related
> to the symptomatology of "complex" PTSD and related DSM-IV categories. If
> anyone is interested and doesn't already have them, I can track down the
> citations. 
> 	On a less scholarly, but related note, I recently came across (but
> have since been unable to find) a story that describes how children were
> at one time used as reckoning devices. In order that ships would be able
> to "get their bearings", children were taken to/near a landmark important
> for navigation, tied to a post, and whipped in order to sear the memory
of
> the landmark into their minds. As I recall, this story was intended to
> illustrate the difference between "education" and "schooling", the
> episode being an example of the former.
> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Wilson, Teaching Fellow
> Social Foundations of Education
> http://www.pitt.edu/~admps/fnd-d.html (Course syllabus)
> University of Pittsburgh
> Department of Administrative and Policy Studies
> rwwst6@xxxxxxxx (Email address)
> 
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