Psychobiological DID/MPD evidence, Pediatric dentist facing child porn possession charges, Victims of child pornography seek restitution from men who downloaded and traded horrific images, Paedophiles behind a face of respectability

[news reporter]

- Prosecutor: Pediatric dentist facing child porn possession charges
- Victims of child pornography seek restitution from men who
downloaded and traded horrific images
- Dissociative Identity States "DID does not have a sociocultural
(e.g., iatrogenic) origin"
- Psychobiological characteristics of dissociative identity disorder:
a symptom provocation study.
- One Brain, Two Selves.
- Paedophiles behind a face of respectability

Prosecutor: Pediatric dentist facing child porn possession charges
By Laura Ly and Rande Iaboni, CNN
Thu December 27, 2012

(CNN) -- A pediatric dentist charged with possession and distribution
of child pornography can still treat children at his Framingham,
Massachusetts, dental office under a judge's ruling, according to a
news release from the Middlesex district attorney's office.

Melvin A. Ehrlich, 52, was arraigned Thursday in Framingham District
Court on three counts of possession of child pornography and two
counts of distribution of child pornography, according to the release.

Ehrlich, who was arrested Wednesday, pleaded not guilty at his
arraignment, according to Stephanie Chelf Guyotte, spokeswoman for the
district attorney's office.

"While the case remains under development and investigation, there is
currently no evidence that presently leads law enforcement to believe
that Ehrlich physically abused any children or manufactured any images
of child pornography," the news release said....

Authorities immediately launched an investigation that they say
revealed Ehrlich had used the laptop "under various user names to
download and distribute commercially traded child pornography images,"
the release said....
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/27/us/massachusetts-pediatric-dentist-charged/index.html



Victims of child pornography seek restitution from men who downloaded
and traded horrific images
By Jenifer B. McKim Globe Staff December 27, 2012
The woman, now in her twenties, lives in relative anonymity on the
West Coast, but to child pornography collectors worldwide she will
always be known as “Vicky,” a little girl raped by her father in a
series of videos illegally disseminated online thousands of times
during more than a decade.

Now the woman and a small but growing number of other child
pornography victims are seeking restitution from those who collected
or traded pictures and videos depicting their abuse, filing claims for
damages against convicted child pornographers in Massachusetts and
around the country. In court papers, victims describe living with the
knowledge that their images can never be cleansed from the Internet.

“Many people somewhere are watching the most terrifying moments of my
life and taking grotesque pleasure in them,” the woman said in court
statement provided by her Seattle attorney, Carol Hepburn. “They are
being entertained by my shame and pain.”

Since 2008, six federal child pornography cases in Massachusetts have
resulted in defendants being ordered to pay restitution, according to
the US attorney’s office in Boston.

The amounts range between $2,000 and $2.5 million, and more than a
dozen local cases are pending as courts across the country grapple
with questions about whether victims deserve restitution and, if so,
how much.

The recent restitution efforts come as the scourge of child
pornography has accelerated during the last decade, aided by improved
technology and the Web’s promise of anonymity.

While most sexually exploited children go unidentified, nearly 5,000
nationwide have been located during the last 10 years by law
enforcement officials and the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children.

The Virginia nonprofit manages a database to aid prosecutors and help
identify exploited children....
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/12/27/victims-child-pornography-seek-restitution-from-men-who-downloaded-and-traded-horrific-images/LPHPAEuOjJGACBwBTA485K/story.html




Dissociative Identity States. Reinders AATS, Willemsen ATM, Vos HPJ,
den Boer JA, Nijenhuis ERS (2012) PLoS ONE 7(6): e39279. doi:10.1371/
journal.pone.003927

Methodology/Principal Findings

DID patients, high fantasy prone and low fantasy prone controls were
studied in two different types of identity states (neutral and trauma-
related) in an autobiographical memory script-driven (neutral or
trauma-related) imagery paradigm. The controls were instructed to
enact the two DID identity states. Twenty-nine subjects participated
in the study: 11 patients with DID, 10 high fantasy prone DID
simulating controls, and 8 low fantasy prone DID simulating controls.
Autonomic and subjective reactions were obtained. Differences in
psychophysiological and neural activation patterns were found between
the DID patients and both high and low fantasy prone controls. That
is, the identity states in DID were not convincingly enacted by DID
simulating controls. Thus, important differences regarding regional
cerebral bloodflow and psychophysiological responses for different
types of identity states in patients with DID were upheld after
controlling for DID simulation.

Conclusions/Significance

The findings are at odds with the idea that differences among
different types of dissociative identity states in DID can be
explained by high fantasy proneness, motivated role-enactment, and
suggestion. They indicate that DID does not have a sociocultural
(e.g., iatrogenic) origin
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039279


Psychobiological characteristics of dissociative identity disorder: a
symptom provocation study. Reinders AA, Nijenhuis ER, Quak J, Korf J,
Haaksma J, Paans AM, Willemsen AT, den Boer JA. Biol Psychiatry. 2006
Oct 1;60(7):730-40.

Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) patients function as two or more
identities or dissociative identity states (DIS), categorized as
'neutral identity states' (NIS) and 'traumatic identity states' (TIS).
NIS inhibit access to traumatic memories thereby enabling daily life
functioning. TIS have access and responses to these memories. We
tested whether these DIS show different psychobiological reactions to
trauma-related memory.

METHODS:
A symptom provocation paradigm with 11 DID patients was used in a two-
by-two factorial design setting. Both NIS and TIS were exposed to a
neutral and a trauma-related memory script. Three psychobiological
parameters were tested: subjective ratings (emotional and sensori-
motor), cardiovascular responses (heart rate, blood pressure, heart
rate variability) and regional cerebral blood flow as determined with
H(2)(15)O positron emission tomography.

RESULTS:
Psychobiological differences were found for the different DIS.
Subjective and cardiovascular reactions revealed significant main and
interactions effects. Regional cerebral blood flow data revealed
different neural networks to be associated with different processing
of the neutral and trauma-related memory script by NIS and TIS.

CONCLUSIONS:
Patients with DID encompass at least two different DIS. These
identities involve different subjective reactions, cardiovascular
responses and cerebral activation patterns to a trauma-related memory
script.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17008145


One Brain, Two Selves. Reinders AA, Nijenhuis ER, Paans AM, Korf J,
Willemsen AT, den Boer JA. Neuroimage. 2003 Dec;20(4):2119-25.

ABSTRACT: Having a sense of self is an explicit and high-level
functional specialization of the human brain. The anatomical
localization of self-awareness and the brain mechanisms involved in
consciousness were investigated by functional neuroimaging different
emotional mental states of core consciousness in patients with
Multiple Personality Disorder (i.e., Dissociative Identity Disorder
(DID)). We demonstrate specific changes in localized brain activity
consistent with their ability to generate at least two distinct mental
states of self-awareness, each with its own access to autobiographical
trauma-related memory. Our findings reveal the existence of different
regional cerebral blood flow patterns for different senses of self. We
present evidence for the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the
posterior associative cortices to have an integral role in conscious
experience.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14683715


Paedophiles behind a face of respectability
By Tracey Spicer The Daily Telegraph September 21, 2009
A PAEDOPHILE lives in Sydney's East Ryde. He doesn't have a facial tic
or a stutter. He doesn't look like the sex offender from central
casting. And his name is not Dennis Ferguson.

He is one of tens of thousands of paedophiles, living in the suburbs,
who don't walk around with big signs on their foreheads.

In about 90 per cent of child sex abuse cases, the perpetrator is a
family member or friend, not some rock spider who abducts kids in the
street.

"Offenders look like everybody else," Carol Ronken from Bravehearts, a
support group for child sex victims, said....
http://www.news.com.au/opinion/paedophiles-behind-face-of-respectability/story-e6frfs99-1225777275022