The LEBZ is a Dutch expert committee that assesses allegations of sexual abuse, such as allegations based on recovered memories, allegations of ritual abuse and allegations of sexual abuse before the age of three. The memories presented in the allegations are often disputed. In 2004 the Health Council of the Netherlands wrote an advisory report on disputed memories. In this article we discuss the advisory report and we present several cases assessed by the LEBZ. W e differentiate between different kinds of disputed memories, discuss the role of therapists’ mistakes in wrongful allegations of sexual assault and stress the similarities in the backgrounds of seemingly different allegations.
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that the original distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation has been replaced by the differentiation between
autonomous and controlled motivation.
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that the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness is the mechanism through
which autonomous motivation gets developed and maintained over time.
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Empirical evidence for these claims is discussed.
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is presumed to have specific effects on the characteristic symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The purpose of this study is to investigate this claim and to reach a better understanding of the evolution of frequency and desire for self-inflicted injuries and of frequency and severity of suicidal ideation in the borderline patient during DBT. The daily recording of suicidal behaviour, suicide thoughts and selfinflicted injuries clearly shows the erratic and individually determined course of parasuicide for the borderline patient. The data confirmed the decrease of suicidal ideation and self-inflicted injuries. It is concluded that, in case of severe suicidal ideation and self-inflicted injuries, long term treatment with DGT is warranted to attain a structural reduction of parasuicidal behaviours.