Interview: Mommy Makes Me Sick; Defining Munchausen by Proxy

Child abuse is heinous in all of its forms.  One specific type of abuse that I find particularly interesting is Munchausen by Proxy, because my mother was a perpetrator. Munchausen by Proxy (MbP) is a form of abuse in which a caregiver, typically a mother, deliberately makes another person, usually a child, sick.  A few years ago I went looking for support services to help me deal with being a survivor of MbP and that is how I came to meet...

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Criminal Media

By Douglas Corleone A major theme in my novel One Man’s Paradise is how the media affects the American system of justice. Is it possible for a defendant to get a fair trial when every aspect of the case is discussed ad nauseam prior to the trial on the three major national cable news channels? It seems that in the age of round-the-clock news, voyeur journalism, and odious overbearing pundits, the freedom of the press has wholly usurped the right...

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