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Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?
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Opinions, Anecdotes and Myths
- From Edgar J Schoen MD
By Edgar J. Schoen, MD - Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
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Doubling - Text: "The Nazi Doctors"
Dr. Harpo you need introspection. You are open to criticism from Dr. Robert Lifton's "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide." Lifton states:
"If you are curing a sickness 'anything' is possible. The image of a cure lends itself to the restorative myth of state violence and to the literal enactment of that myth. The key to understanding how Nazi doctors came to do the work of Auschwitz is the psychological principle I call 'Doubling': the division of the self into two functioning wholes, so that a part-self acts as the entire self. An Auschwitz doctor could, through doubling, not only kill and to contribute to killing but organize silently, on behalf of that evil project, an entire self-structure (or self-process) encompassing virtually all aspects of his behavior."
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August 20, 2008 1:59PM
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Doubling - Text: "The Nazi Doctors" -2
Dr. Harpo, Lifton continues with:
"In doubling, one part of the self 'disavows' another part. What is repudiated is not reality itself - the individual Nazi doctor was aware of what he was doing via the Auschwitz self - but the meaning of that reality. The Nazi doctor knew that he selected but did not interpret selections as murder. One level of disavowal, then, was the Auschwitz self's altering the meaning of murder, and on another, the repudiation by the original seld of 'anything' done by the Auschwitz self. Indeed, disavowal was the life blood of the Auschwitz self... Doubling can include elements characteristic of 'psychopathic' character impairment."
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Doubling - Text: "The Nazi Doctors" - 3
Dr. Harpo, Lifton also states:
"Doubling may well be an important psychological mechanism for individuals living within any criminal substructure... The SS doctor - deeply involved in the stark contradictions of the 'schizophrenic condition'... lay in the idea of doing constructive medical work within a slaughterhouse."
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Dr. Schoen: First Know Your Myth
Dr. Harpo, again you use the Groucho Marx Syndrome and attribute NOCIRC's positions as 'myth.' By pointing fingers at someone else, your other 3 fingers are pointed at yourself. Circumcision has never been a substantiated medical procedure, but rather, as always, a ritual. Joseph Campbell in "The Power of Myth" simply stated:
"A ritual is an enactment of a myth. By participating in a ritual, you are participating in a myth."
And Richard Noll author of "The Aryan Christ" stated in an interview:
"Myth, then, becomes more important than fact."
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