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- ADHD
- Alcohol
- Child
- Confessions
- Drugs
- Evaluation
- IPV (Intimate Partner Violence)
- Memory
- Online Offense
- Paraphilia
- Pathology
- Personality
- PTSD
- Sex Offense
- Trial
- Victim
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VICTIM: Folie a Deux
The source reviews folie à deux, a term used for shared delusional beliefs between closely associated people. It surveys the phenomenon through historical descriptions, diagnostic debates, case reports, and reviews that consider how close relationships and exposure may relate to shared delusional beliefs.
VICTIM: Munchausen Syndrome and Sexual Abuse Allegations
The literature reviewed here addresses Munchausen syndrome by proxy in cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse, including diagnostic, legal, and professional-bias concerns. A review of 451 reported cases describes serious harms to some children, while its authors caution that published cases are a non-random sample and call for broader evidence.
VICTIM: Pseudocyesis – “False Pregnancy”
Pseudocyesis refers to a condition in which a person believes they are pregnant and experiences objective signs despite not being pregnant. The collected literature discusses psychological and neuroendocrine factors, highlights variation across cases, and includes reports exploring possible associations with depression and mood episodes.
VICTIM: Reaction
This resource examines victims’ responses to sexual assault and the use of related expert testimony in legal settings. It summarizes research on trauma diagnoses, disclosure and minimization, PTSD symptoms, and factors associated with survivors’ reported psychological responses over time.
VICTIM: Tonic Immobility / Freezing
The articles examine freezing and tonic immobility as responses discussed in threat and sexual-assault research. They review freezing as a defensive response involving behavioral inhibition and heart-rate changes, distinguish it from active fight-or-flight responses, and discuss tonic immobility in research concerning sexual assault and its reported effects.
VICTIM: Trauma Bonding
This resource discusses trauma bonding and social support in the context of traumatic experiences and victimization. It summarizes research on parental bonding and post-rape symptoms, reviews social support and oxytocin in trauma research, and describes the Stockholm hostage case associated with the popular term ‘Stockholm syndrome.’
VIOLENCE: Filicide
The review examines filicide, the killing of a child by a parent, and patterns discussed in the literature. It describes filicide and neonaticide, surveys proposed motives and clinical or situational factors, and discusses reported patterns while emphasizing that perpetrators and cases are heterogeneous.
VIOLENCE: Homicide Wounds
The collection examines how homicide wounds and methods may vary across cases and victim-offender relationships. The cited research studies wounding patterns and weapon use, including injury, excessive wounding, and crime-scene indicators that may relate to intimacy or expressed emotion.
VIOLENCE: Red-outs and Memory
The article considers reported memory loss for violent acts committed during intense anger, a phenomenon it calls a ‘red-out.’ The authors discuss possible explanations, including state-dependent memory, and address malingering, intoxication, organic factors, personality, legal issues, and limitations in establishing another person’s memory.
What Happened? Alcohol, Memory, and the Brain
Aaron White’s 2003 review examines how acute alcohol use disrupts memory, with particular attention to blackouts and their underlying mechanisms. It explains that rising alcohol doses can impair the formation of new long-term memories while leaving brief working memory relatively intact, and discusses partial and complete blackouts in relation to hippocampal activity.