Comments on: The Situation of Emotional Distress Claims http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/the-situation-of-emotional-distress-claims/ Sat, 18 May 2013 14:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: AnonymousStudent http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/the-situation-of-emotional-distress-claims/#comment-15871 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:23:28 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9251#comment-15871 Earlier this month, a boarding school I attended as a teenager was closed due to charges made by former students detailing abuse and neglect. While I had often hoped the school would shut down, I had always felt that the details of our emotional distress would not be incriminating enough. Apparently some of my former classmates felt differently. Reading over the allegations, I can’t help but wonder if the state ultimately reacted because the charges invoked something from the physical realm (“they made us recreate scenes of sexual abuse from our past”…etc). I wonder if the charges could have been sucessfully made by simply describing the emotional distress without invoking the sexual imagery.

For more on the background of this case, this Huffington Post article is a good place to start.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/school-using-lap-dances-t_b_345477.html

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