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- Abduction Digest, Number 10
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- Thursday, April 25th 1991
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- Today's Topics:
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- Abduction Research
- Abduction Research
- Abduction Research
- Rima Laibow
- INFO: Clinical Analysis of UFO Abductions
- Rima Laibow (2)
- Rima Laibow (3)
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- From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
- Subject: Abduction Research
- Date: 14 Apr 91 17:44:00 GMT
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-
- > > This is a very good point, however we do not have sufficient
- > > data to determine what the norm is for people who might fall
- > > under the Fantasy Prone. In a studies done with abduction
- > > research, it was found that there were striking consistencies
- > > between non-abductees and abductees in their descriptions of
- > > what takes place during an abduction experience. There is
- > > not enough data to answer the why of this yet, but it is
- > > being studied.
- > >
- > > Mike
- >
- > Ok.. let me know what new information on this subject comes out.
- >
- > Regarding non-abductees and abductees, I'm sure that there would be some
- > that, upon reading those abduction stories, would attempt to believe a
- > fantasy that they were abductees also.
- >
- > However, there have been many cases where people actually denied and
- > tried to hide the fact that they were being abducted.. and still were
- > unbeleiving when hypnosis revealed what happened. It doesn't sound like
- > a fad or someone looking for fame...
-
- I do not deny that there is a possibility that there are abduction cases,
- however I feel that the time has come that we should re-evaluate our
- methodology and investigation practices at how we come down to researching
- these. I am very much against anyone performing any work on abductees without
- having the medical credentials for both attempting to find out what happened
- and for dealing with the victim following the traumatic experience. I would
- say that the damage done by well-meaning UFOlogists to the victims could be
- potentially worse after the experience than the actual experience itself.
-
- Mike
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- From: Tyson.Mitchiner@p2.f134.n109.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Tyson Mitchiner)
- Subject: Abduction Research
- Date: 17 Apr 91 23:01:07 GMT
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- MC> I do not deny that there is a possibility that there are
- MC> abduction cases, however I feel that the time has come that we
- MC> should re-evaluate our methodology and investigation practices at
- MC> how we come down to researching these. I am very much against
- MC> anyone performing any work on abductees without having the
- MC> medical credentials for both attempting to find out what happened
- MC> and for dealing with the victim following the traumatic
- MC> experience. I would say that the damage done by well-meaning
- MC> UFOlogists to the victims could be potentially worse after the
- MC> experience than the actual experience itself.
-
- MC> Mike
-
- I agree with you... How do you plan to evaluate those investigation pratices?
-
- I feel that we aren't doing enough to investigate the abduction phenomenon. It
- seems all the investigation is done by amateurs, etc. without a real serious
- investigation into the abduction phenomenon by experts (by experts I mean
- people who are dedicated to discovering the facts, and not jumping to
- conclusions or opinions).
-
- However, it won't be easy to establish this. Maybe over time, we can
- sufficiently persuade the government, etc. for a serious scientific study into
- this.
-
- Tyson
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- From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
- Subject: Abduction Research
- Date: 21 Apr 91 17:33:00 GMT
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-
- > I agree with you... How do you plan to evaluate those investigation
- > pratices?
-
- I would say that several steps need to be taken. Chiefly, we should get
- medical professionals invovled who can establish standards and controls to be
- used for the investigation of abductions. Despite the negative inference
- that credible scientific people will shy away from this subject, there are
- those out there with enough medical/scientific savvy to take a serious look
- at this aspect. Secondly, the victims of alleged abductions should be
- treated exactly as anyone would suffering from a traumatic stress disorder.
- I do not believe that abductees should be treated special as this tends to
- stigmatize their emotional state as it is following such trauma. Support
- groups are a negative reinforcement since it amplifies the inability to
- explain what is going on with abductions. Vallee makes a very good point in
- that he does not believe that we should be reinforcing and attempting to
- infuse an abduction experience into the abductees' perception of reality
- since there is not enough data to support what in fact actually happens. As
- he puts it, it is like trying to force a square through a hole. How true!
-
- > I feel that we aren't doing enough to investigate the abduction
- > phenomenon.. It seems all the investigation is done by amateurs, etc.
- > without a real serious investigation into the abduction phenomenon by
- > experts (by experts I mean people who are dedicated to discovering the
- > facts, and not jumping to conclusions or opinions).
-
- I fully agree. However, we have an incredible amount of work to do. First,
- we must undo the damage that is being done right now. Qualified people
- looking in are not impressed at the happenings within our community. They
- see literally thousands of people alleging this type of encounter, and they
- see unqualiifed people regressing victims and the whole thing breaks down.
- Charges fly that the quality of the data is seriously compromised by people
- unqualified to do hypnosis and that the whole subject is so saturated with
- preconceived notions that the signal to noise ration is way off the scale.
- This is sad, but true. I refer to an article which appeared in an OMNI
- magazine some years back which was authored by Budd Hopkins and Bruce
- Maccabee. This article was highly suggestive and seemed to start the flood
- of abduction reports coming in. It surveyed people who may have been
- abducted by proposing symptoms of missing time, etc. The person was
- encouraged to fill out the questionaire and mail it in.
-
- To get at the idea of establishing standards, I feel that one place to look
- would be to review the transcripts and records of Betty and Barney Hill.
- This could be considered to be the first abduction experience that was
- critically studied by a qualified medical doctor, Benjamin Simon. Simon had
- no preconceived ideas about abductions or UFOs. There are other things that
- will be useful that will come about from qualified studies. There is some
- very good research going on with CUFOS (J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO
- Studies). I understand that results and findings will be released shortly.
- Thomas Bullard has also done some good research work on this which can be
- found in the 1989 Journal for UFO Studies, published by CUFOS. I can get you
- a mailing address if you want to inquire further about it.
-
- All in all, we have a responsibility to the victims first and foremost to get
- them qualified help. The relief from the stressful emotions should occur
- first with an emphasis on the actual experience coming secondarily. We also
- should publicly denounce unqualified investigators from having anything to do
- with abductees. The data should be available to the investigator, instead of
- the witness being available to the investigator. In this, we might get
- somewhere with this important study. This is not to say that should some
- educational program be initiated for investigators, that there could not be
- involvement, but until that happens, I feel that the best policy would be as I
- mention above.
-
- > However, it won't be easy to establish this. Maybe over time,
- > we can sufficiently persuade the government, etc. for a serious scientific
- > study into this.
-
- I advocate that we conduct all of our research within the civilian
- scientific/research community for the time being. We need an organized effort
- on a global scale. This can be achieved with our current resources if we can
- pool them effectively. We will just have to see.
-
- Thanks for your post.
-
- Mike
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- From: ParaNet.Information.Service@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
- Subject: Rima Laibow
- Date: 20 Apr 91 07:42:00 GMT
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- To: Michael Corbin
- Re: "Clinical Analysis of UFO Abductions" - a report
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- From: ked01@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
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- [ I'm sending this to the "abduct-request" address, as all attempts
- to get email thru to "scicom.alphacdc.com" or "scicom" result in
- bounces. Please forward if you have a working address ... Thanks!
- /kim ]
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- The attached was recently posted to the indicated USENET newsgroups.
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- I thought it might be worth including in a future Abduction Digest,
- but as the poster says ... it is not "light reading".
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- /kim /\oo__
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- From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: INFO: Clinical Analysis of UFO Abductions
- Date: 10 Apr 91 02:02:45 GMT
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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-
- What follows is a report given on the Psychiatry and evaluation of
- UFO abducted victims by RIMA E. LAIBOW, M.D. This report is not
- considered "light" reading.
-
- As usual, my *disclaimer* will be to read and make up your own mind :-)
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- RIMA E. LAIBOW, M.D.
- Child and Adult Psychiatry
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- Cerridwen
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- Dobbs' Ferry, NY 10522
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- CLINICAL DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN EXPECTED AND OBSERVED DATA IN PATIENTS
- REPORTING UFO ABDUCTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT
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- ABSTRACT: IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS PAPER MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO ASSIGN OR
- WITHHOLD EXTERNAL VALIDITY RELATIVE TO UFO ABDUCTION SCENARIOS.
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- Patients who believe themselves to be UFO abductees are a
- heterogeneous group widely dispersed along demographic and cultural lines.
- Careful examination of these patients and their abduction reports presents
- four areas of significant discrepancy between expected and observed data.
-
- Implications for the treatment of patients presenting UFO abduction
- scenarios are discussed.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- If a patient were to confide to a therapist that he had been abducted
- by aliens who took him aboard a UFO and performed a series of medical
- procedures and examinations on him it is not likely that the patient would
- find either a receptive ear or a respectful and non-judgemental response from
- the therapist. The material presented would lie so far outside the confines
- of our personal and cultural belief system that it would seem intolerably
- anomalous to most of us. We would probably dismiss or repudiate it using a
- few comfortable and familiar assumptions which hold so much obvious wisdom
- that they do not require specific examination.
-
- When events which are too anomalous to allow their incorporation
- into our world schema are presented to us, we are likely to dismiss them
- by using assumptions based in out currently operative world view. This
- effectively precludes the open evaluation of the anomaly. Hence, the
- "expressible" response of most clinical and lay individuals upon hearing a UFO
- abduction account would be an immediate dismissal of even the possibility that
- such an episode might occur. Close upon the heels of that determination the
- rapid and complete pathologization of the person offering such an account
- would follow. Dream states, suggestibility, poor reality testing, outright
- dissembling or frank psychosis are customarily offered and accepted as evident
- and reasonable organizing models by which the production of this material may
- be understood. These are typical maneuvers by which the presentation of
- information which challenges schematic assumptions is dismissed or screened
- out before the assumptions can be adequately tested for predictive reliability
- and accuracy. Such testing is highly desirable, however, because it offers
- us the opportunity to apply the scientific method to our current level of
- theorital sophistication and thereby refine our understanding of reality
- further still. Of course, this process is severely impeded when the new data
- is excluded from consideration strictly because it is too anomalous for
- assessment.
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- From: ParaNet.Information.Service@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
- Subject: Rima Laibow (2)
- Date: 20 Apr 91 07:43:00 GMT
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- <<Continued from previous message>>
-
- Westrum has offered a model by which events become "hidden" and
- therefore remain anomalous to the perception of society in a circular
- process: the hidden event is disbelieved and its disbelief helps to keep it
- hidden. Citing the lengthy period during which battered children and their
- battering parents remained hidden, Westrum states:
-
- "An event is hidden if its occurrence is so implausible
- that those who observe it hesitate to report it because
- they do not expect to be believed. The implausibility
- may cause the observer to doubt his own perceptions,
- leading to the event's denial or mis identification.
- Should the observer nonetheless make a report, he/she
- can expect to be treated with incredulity or even
- ridicule. Since the existence of a hidden event is
- contrary to what science, society, and perhaps even
- the observer believes, the event remains hidden because
- of strong social forces which interfere with
- reporting. The actual degree of underreporting is
- sometimes difficult to believe, a skepticism which
- itself acts as a deterrent to taking seriously
- those reports which do surface." (1)
-
- But for the clinician who spends a moment before reaching these
- "obvious" and "intuitive" conclusions, several fascinating and potentially
- productive questions present themselves. If we refrain for a short period
- from dismissing this material out-of-hand, we find that there are at least
- four areas of puzzling and important discrepancy between our intuitive sense
- of order and the data presented by the patient. These discrepancies force us
- to re-examine our assumptions in light of a demonstrated failure of the theory
- to account for the observed phenomena. This process, while taxing and
- challenging, is nonetheless, the way we systemize our understanding of human
- health and pathology. Noting the previously un-noted and using it to refine
- our conceptual framework leads to better prediction and therefore to better
- treatment.
-
- It is not the purpose of this paper to ascribe relative reality to the
- experience of abduction reported by some patients. Rather, precisely because
- it lies outside the realm of clinical expertise to assess with certainty
- whether these events actually occurred or if they are mere fantasy, it is
- mandatory for the clinician to examine the impact of these experiences,
- whatever their source, upon the patient. This must be done in a clear sighted
- and open-minded fashion so that the impact of the experiences may be dealt
- with rather than made into hidden events.
-
- AREAS OF DISCREPANCY
-
- 1. ABSENCE OF MAJOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: It is intuitively
- seductive (and perhaps comfortable) for us to assume that psychotic-level
- functioning will necessarily be present in a person claiming to be a UFO
- abductee. If this level of distortion and delusion is present, a patient
- would be expected to demonstrate some other evidence of reality distortion.
- Pathology of this magnitude would not be predicted to be present in a well
- integrated, mature and non-psychotic individual. Instead, we would expect
- clinical and psychometric tools to reveal serious problems in numerous areas
- both inter- and interpersonally. It would be highly surprising if otherwise
- well-functioning persons were to demonstrate a single area of floridly
- psychotic distortion. Further, if this single idea fix were totally
- circumscribed, non-invasive and discrete, that in itself would be highly
- anomalous. Well-developed, fixed delusional states with numerous
- elaborated and sequential components are not seen in otherwise healthy
- individuals. Prominent evidence of deep dysfunction would be expected to
- pervade many areas of the patient's life. One would predict that if the
- abduction experience were the product of delusional or other psychotic states,
- it would be possible to detect such evidence through the clinical and
- psychometric tools available to us.
-
- This points to the first important discrepancy: individuals
- claiming alien abduction frequently show no evidence of past or present
- psychosis, delusional thinking, reality-testing deficits, hallucinations or
- other significant psychopathology despite extensive clinical evaluation.
- Instead, there is a conspicuous absence of psychopathology of the magnitude
- necessary to account for the production of floridly delusional and presumably
- psychotic material.(2)
-
- In order to test this startling and anomalous information, a group of
- subjects who believe they have been abducted by aliens (9, 5 male, 4 female)
- were asked to participate in a psychometric evaluation. An experienced
- clinical psychologist carried out an investigation using projection tests
- (Rorschach, TAT, Draw a Person and the MMPI) and the Wechler Adult
- Intelligence Scale. The examining clinician was told "the subjects were being
- evaluated to determine similarities and differences in personality structure,
- as well as psychological strengths and weaknesses". All of the subjects
- actively refrained from sharing UFO-related experiences with the examiner and
- she was unaware of this theme in their lives.
-
- The investigator found that commonalties were not strongly present and
- that:
- "while the subjects are quite heterogeneous in their
- personality styles, there is a modicum of homogeneity
- in several respects: (1) relatively high intelligence
- with concomitant richness of inner life; (2) relative
- weakness in the sense of identity, especially sexual
- identity; (3) concomitant vulnerability in the inter-
- personal realm; (4) a certain orientation towards
- alertness which is manifest alternately in a certain
- perceptual sophistication and awareness or in inter-
- personal hyper-vigilance and caution.... Perhaps the
- most obvious and prominent impression left by the
- nine subjects is the range of personality styles
- the present.... There is little to unite them as a
- group from the standpoint of the overt manifestations
- of their personalities.... They [are] very distinctive
- unusual and interesting subjects. [But] "Along with
- above average intelligence, richness in mental life,
- and indications of narcissistic identity disturbance,
- the nine subjects also share some degree of impair-
- ment in personal relationships. For [some] subjects,
- problems in intimacy are manifest more in great
- sensitivity to injury and loss than in lack of
- intimacy and relatedness. [Ad] "...The last salient
- dimension of impairment in the interpersonal realm
- relates to a certain mildly paranoid and disturbing
- streak in many of the subjects, which renders them
- very wary and cautious about involving themselves
- with others. It is significant that all but one of
- the subjects had modest elevations on the MMPI paranoia
- scale relative to their other scores. Such modest
- elevations mean that we are not dealing with blatant
- paranoid symptomology but rather over-sensitivity,
- defensiveness and fear of criticism and susceptibility
- to feeling pressured. To summarize, while this is a
- heterogeneous group in terms of overt personality style,
- it can be said that most of its members share being
- rather unusual and very interesting. They also share
- brighter than average intelligence and a certain rich-
- ness of inner life that can operate favorably in terms
- of creativity or disadvantageously to the extent that
- it can be overwhelming. Shared underlying emotional
- factors include a degree of identity disturbance, some
- deficits in the interpersonal sphere, and generally
- mild paranoia phenomena (hypersensitivity, wariness,
- etc.)" (3)
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- From: ParaNet.Information.Service@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
- Subject: Rima Laibow (3)
- Date: 20 Apr 91 07:43:00 GMT
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- <<<Continued from previous message>>>
-
- Her findings demonstrate a uniform lack of the significant
- psychopathology which would be necessary to account for these experiences if
- abduction experiences do represent the psychotic or delusional states
- predicted by current theory.
-
- When the examiner was informed of the true reason for the selection of
- the subjects for this evaluation (i.e., their shared belief that they had been
- exposed to alien abductions), she wrote an addendum to the original report re-
- examining the findings of the testing in the light of the new data. In it she
- states:
- "The first and most critical question is whether our
- subjects' reported experiences could be accounted
- for strictly on the basis of psychopathy, i.e., mental
- disorder. The answer is a firm no. In broad terms,
- if the reported abductions were confabulated fantasy
- productions, based on what we know about psychological
- disorders, they could only have come from pathological
- liars, paranoid schizophrenics, and severely disturbed
- and extraordinarily rare hysteroid characters subject
- to fugue states and/or multiple personality shifts...
- It is important to note that not one of the subjects,
- based on test data, falls into any of these categories.
- Therefore, while testing can do nothing to prove the
- veracity of the UFO abduction reports, one can conclude
- that the test findings are not inconsistent with the
- possibility that reported UFO abductions have, in fact,
- occurred. In other words, there is no apparent
- psychological explanation for their reports." (4)
-
- 2. CONCORDANCE OF REPORTED DATA: The second point of
- intriguing discrepancy follows from this surprising absence of evidence
- of a common thread of severe and reality-distorting psychopathology to
- account for the patient's bizarre assertions. They claim that they have
- been abducted, sometimes repeatedly over nearly the whole course of their
- lives, by aliens who have communicated with them and carried out procedures
- much like medical examinations. Persons reporting these experiences are seen
- to be psycho-dynamically varied. They are also demographically varied.
- Reports of this basic scenario, numbering in the hundreds, have now been
- recorded. Even though the reporters range from individuals as diverse as a
- mestizo Brazilian farmer(5),an American corporate lawyer (6), and a Mid-
- Western minister(7), there is a perplexing and intriguing concordance of
- features in these reports. Certain details of the scenarios repeat themselves
- with disturbing regularity no matter what the educational, national, social,
- experiential or other demographic characteristics of the reporter. In the
- production of dreams, reveries, poetry, fantasies and psychotic states, while
- the general themes of concern may be identified easily between individuals,
- the specific symbolization, concretion, abstraction and representation of
- those themes is relatively indiosyncratic for each individual. This of course
- necessitates careful empathic and attentive listening on the clinician's part
- to gather both the general flavor and specific meaning of the elements of the
- fantasy state. This careful listening often means that a personal symbolic
- representational system can be unraveled and its contents can be rendered less
- mysterious to the patient. In the abduction scenarios however, both specific
- details and themes repeat themselves with surprising regularity: In general,
- the appearance and modus operandi of the aliens, their effect and procedures,
- their tools and interests, their crafts and physical features all tally from
- report to report with a high rate of concordance. (8,9,10) This intriguing
- fact seems impervious to the socio-economic, educational, national, or
- cultural background of the abductee. Similarly, whether the individual has
- had previous contact with the literature of abduction seems to make little
- difference in this vein since the reports of individuals who can be shown to
- have had no exposure to abduction literature also contains these common
- features. Skilled practitioners and investigators report in these cases that
- they are convinced that each of these subjects was being wholly truthful in
- his/her report.
-
- The concordance of both content and event in these reports makes
- them unlike any other fantasy-generated material with which I am familiar.
- Indeed, investigators like Hopkins and others claim they have intentionally
- withheld dissemination of certain important, frequently reported aspects of
- the abduction scenarios in order to provide a "check" on the material being
- presented to them by individuals who may have had access to this literature
- since abductees may have been influenced at either the conscious or the
- unconscious level by it. In these cases as well, the features which have
- previously been published as well as those withheld are both produced by the
- abductee (11). In instances in which the patient has read some of the
- abductee literature, this previously withheld material may be offered to the
- investigator with a sense of personal invalidation, apology and embarrassment.
- He often expresses concern that this information is less likely to be
- believed than the other material with which he is already familiar. (12)
-
- Jung and others have written widely about the use of archetypes
- and the collective awareness of themes and images which are asserted to
- present themselves in a world-wide and multi-personal way. The amount of
- individual variation and creative latitude demonstrated within the closed
- system of archetypes and collected creativity is vast. Those who pose such
- universals detect their presence in the complex and highly idiosyncratic
- presentations and guises which they are given by the unconscious mind of the
- patient and the artist. This disguise is idiosyncratic, they hold, precisely
- because a set of available images is being used to work and rework the
- personal realities of the individual against the background of the collective.
- But the abductee does not seem to be involved in the reworking of personal
- mythologies against the canvas of the race's mythology. The details and
- contents of the scenarios seem, upon extensive investigation, to bear little
- thematic relevance to the issues inherent in the life of the abductee.
- Intensive follow up investigation frequently yields no thematic, archetypical,
- primary process symbolic meaning to the shape or activities of the abductors
- and the scenario of the abduction itself. Instead, therapeutic work in these
- cases centers around the issues inherent in the powerlessness and
- vulnerability of the individual even is this were not a prominent theme in his
- life before the putative abduction. In other words, the customary richness of
- association and creativity found in the examination of dreams and other
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