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Screening for Interpersonal Violence
Lynn P. Carmichael, MD
University of Miami School of Medicine Miami Beach, Fla
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(10):1022.
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In a recent two-part article, "Remembering Satan" (The New Yorker. May 17, 1993:60, and May 24, 1993: 54), Laurence Wright details the fallibility of recovered memories as he tells of a 1989 satanic cult investigation in Olympia, Wash. In closing, he notes, "Whatever the value of repression as a scientific concept or therapeutic tool, unquestioning belief in it has become as dangerous as the belief in witches."
Dr Acheson,1 in her excellent editorial on domestic violence, urges physicians to look beyond the medical domain in depressed patients for clues for oppression (a social condition characterized by the physical and mental subjugation of the powerless). Those of us who serve in the primary care sector are being urged by our leadership to screen patients for interpersonal violence. This includes almost everyone since most of us are in relatively powerless situations sometime during our life. In our haste to screen
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