BritsKate
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Right. Many abuse victims I've met don't/won't necessarily lie until and unless they're actually confronted with evidence or suggestion of abuse. Its a lot more likely they'll lie by omission. There's also a lot of minimization and denial of abuse until latter stages of emotional recovery I'd never quantify as lying.
When was it stated that Alyce had a lot of experience with psychopathy because I'd missed that. There is a well established link between abuse and psychopaths, however, my concerns would lie in how much research LaViolette has studied in regards to it and the little fact that she supports court ordered therapy for batterers. Psychopaths, of course, are very skilled manipulators and even better liars, very often. And LaViolette wouldn't call her a psychopath anyway...it isn't a mental health diagnosis used by therapeutic clinicians but rather one used by forensic psychs. If anything she would have been dx'd with aspd as a stopgap measure...only LaViolette never performed any assessment because she isn't a psychologist or psychiatrist. And Samuels rather shoddy tests pointed to 'a' personality disorder but no follow up or specialized forensic assessment, like the PCL-R or PPI-R, specifically designed for psychopathy.
Family courts are very ugly places for victims and survivors sometimes for folks who haven't been 'there'. Court ordered mediation with someone you're terrified of (I was actually alone in an elevator with my STBX at the courthouse!); court mandated therapy for abusers which is arguably ineffective based on recidivism accounts by victims themselves (and I'd argue totally inappropriate for psychopaths fullstop); 'open access' to shared children, until and unless the other parent does something to restrict such access. (In my case that happened after months of unsupervised visits - when I'd been begging my attorney and the judge to see how dangerous he was the whole time.) It can be hell. Literally.
