tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post16201867033368766..comments2024-03-28T09:59:51.779-05:00Comments on Family Dysfunction and Mental Health Blog: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Dylan Farrow, and Soon-Yi Previn: Old Controversies about False Abuse Accusations RekindledDavid M. Allen M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-38116574394890455692017-11-28T17:28:18.196-06:002017-11-28T17:28:18.196-06:00Oliver, I don't know anything about you other ...Oliver, I don't know anything about you other than this comment but it is silly and shallow and shows that you have such a limited understanding of the complexity of being a woman and a mother. To think that a mother would bring such havoc and destruction into her and her child's life (which is what you do when you open an abuse investigation) because she was insecure about her appearance or losing her "youthful beauty" is such nonsense. While you may see a woman's primary attribute as beauty the vast majority of women, especially mature women, do not. In fact, most women welcome the security and power that comes with aging and the loss of constant unwanted male attention. So, when a mother finds vagina shots of her young adult daughter taken by her current partner, her first thought isn't, "why isn't he taking shots of my vagina. Is it because it isn't as beautiful as my daughters?" NO! She's thinking "oh my god, what terrible thing has happened, how could I let this happen, i feel so terrible for not protecting my daughter." Followed by rage, I would guess at the partner she trusted to be a decent human being. Please further your understanding of women. It is woefully lacking. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-44668169252300829512017-10-16T19:54:06.445-05:002017-10-16T19:54:06.445-05:00I honestly think WA is innocent.
Unfortunately hi...I honestly think WA is innocent. <br />Unfortunately his oeuvre is full of sly jokes about sex with underaged girls. There's Tony Robert's line in Annie Hall about the advantages of LA over NY: "sixteen year olds, Alvy! Twins! Consider the mathematical possibilities!" The old orthodox priest in Love and Death says something about the greatest thing in life is young girls. The judge sentencing Gene Wilder in the 'Bestiality' sketch from Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex adds ". . . and the sheep was underage!"Gadflyonthewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966797107472874069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-1124404491026069882017-10-16T19:47:23.211-05:002017-10-16T19:47:23.211-05:00The problem with traumatic memories is that they a...The problem with traumatic memories is that they are very often confused. One of the aims of therapy is to try to reconstruct a linear narrative, which allows the victim to place it in perspective.Gadflyonthewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966797107472874069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-21048689850598664392017-10-16T19:44:06.249-05:002017-10-16T19:44:06.249-05:00I realize this is late entry. When the story firs...I realize this is late entry. When the story first broke back in the early 90s, my mother, who has a keen sense about these things, said "this is terrible. She's coaching those kids!"<br /><br />I think an adopted child would, if anything, be more susceptible to wanting to please the parent (figure) due to the absence of a biological connection. <br /><br />This is going to sound sexist, but Mia seems like one of those 'genius whores', like Alma Mahler-Groupius. Prior to Allen was Previn, and soon after Philip Roth (inspiration for Deconstructing Harry)<br /><br />There's a reason old Dolly Sinatra called her 'Mama Mia!"Gadflyonthewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966797107472874069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-6319432806170177552014-02-25T09:39:17.965-06:002014-02-25T09:39:17.965-06:00Hi anonymous,
Thanks for your comment. I'm n...Hi anonymous,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. I'm not so sure that seven year olds cannot be induced to lie for their parents, and then eventually come to act as if they believe their own lies. This happens all the time in parental alienation cases.<br /><br />Supposedly, therapists were able to "plant" memories in fully grown adults using hypnosis or amytal interviews. It's still a murky area. We can't read minds, so it's hard to know for certain.<br /><br />In cases like the one we're discussing, IF someone was not molested (and again, I am not saying Dylan was not molested), it is more likely that the person who is lying is doing so out of loyalty to one parent and at some level knows that the story is, at the very least, highly suspect. Looking at it this way is, IMO, much more accurate than the concept of "implanted memories."<br /><br />For a more complete view, see my post about the "actor's paradox" at http://www.davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-it-live-or-is-it-memorex-actors.html<br /><br />Trauma, rather than being hard to remember, is actually hard to forget.David M. Allen M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-54407897000703359362014-02-25T08:30:45.934-06:002014-02-25T08:30:45.934-06:00The problem I have with this article is that it do...The problem I have with this article is that it doesn't seem to mention the fact that the proven cases of false memory being implanted in children by adults, occurs in children aged five, or under. A seven year old child is too old to have false memory implanted by an adult. The children in the false memory case mentioned in the article were much younger than seven, - pre-schoolers in fact, and it would not have been possible to manipulate a group of seven year olds in this way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-88633897122185467512014-02-21T06:45:05.468-06:002014-02-21T06:45:05.468-06:00An article from The Nation arguing to give Woody t...An article from The Nation arguing to give Woody the benefit of the doubt:<br /><br />http://www.thenation.com/article/178457/why-woody-allen-deserves-benefit-doubtOliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553105730593842429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-79594034006258342922014-02-13T21:33:16.972-06:002014-02-13T21:33:16.972-06:00Hello,
I read an article online by a woman journal...Hello,<br />I read an article online by a woman journalist who said she is sure Dylan was molested. One strong reason she gave is from the pictures she has seen online with Woody and a young Dylan, and that Dylan is frowning and looks uncomfortable. I thought the same thing but then saw live footage on television of Dylan holding her dad Woody's hand and walking and she looked as happy as could be. If you think about it, the photos released to the press over the years, of Dylan and Woody would most likely come from Mia and Mia could choose photos whereby Dylan is frowning. The tv also showed a child Moses talking against Woody. It was very apparent that Moses was coached by an adult, to have the kind of opinions he had. There is enough evidence that the children were coached by Mia negatively. Also, I don't believe that the prosecutor decided to not go to trial based on Dylan's fragility. Its all about evidence. If you have enough evidence, you go to trial. There are ways to spare the victim during court proceedings, even if it's a child. The real reason one does not go to trial is that one does not think he or she can win the case. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-23210711738604680792014-02-12T16:38:02.138-06:002014-02-12T16:38:02.138-06:00Thank you for this thoughtful post. It's very ...Thank you for this thoughtful post. It's very interesting to have the perspective of someone with experience in issues of family dysfunction. Have you seen the 1993 court document on the Allen/Farrow custody case? Some portions are quoted here and there, to support or rebut Dylan Farrow's accusations, but there's one article in the Daily Beast that look at the entirety of it:<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/10/inside-the-shocking-custody-case-court-documents-that-shed-light-on-the-dylan-farrow-woody-allen-saga.html<br /><br />It reinforces the picture of that family as highly dysfunctional from the beginning. And there are some details that make me take more seriously Allen's version that the young Dylan confabulated her story in response to her mother's prompting. For instance, Mia Farrow had already started labeling him publicly a "child molester" (with regard to his affair with Soon-Yi Previn) in the month before the alleged molestation of young Dylan. The notion that it was somehow not good to be around him would have made the child receptive when her mother started asking her questions about what happened when he was alone with her the day in question. (Yes, contrary to what some are saying, the child didn't come to her mother of her own movement, Farrow was warned by a friend who was there that Allen had spent time unsupervised with her.) I can see a seven year old, hurt and confused by the betrayal (daddy going out with her sister instead of mom!) and attuned to her mother probably real anxiety, starting to dislike the company of her father, feeling disgusting when he would try to cuddle as if nothing had happened, and mixing those feelings with the story of what was going on with her elder sister. The part in Dylan's letter about Allen telling her, while allegedly abusing her, that he would put her in his movies could reflect that: Soon-Yi Previn had already had a part in Allen's acclaimed Hannah And Her Sisters the year before!Irene Delsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08413578604966009939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-88394777066886766152014-02-11T18:53:17.884-06:002014-02-11T18:53:17.884-06:00Hello, thank you for writing your article. I want...Hello, thank you for writing your article. I want to comment on Dylan's letter. I felt obliged to believe it, as she is the victim, but she uses a manipulative writing style to convince us that she is the victim. I am bothered by it. The way Dylan manipulates the reader is the following: in her first paragraph she puts the reader in the shoes of the child victim. It seems that she is just telling of the abuse, but she crafted the letter to be more than that. Just in case we don't "get it", towards the end of the letter, she has the reader imagine the abuse. This is a writer's technique and its manipulative. Why does she do this? In the middle of the letter, she says she "falls apart", involving the reader into something emotional, but does not authenticate her experience by saying "I had years of therapy." or "I had years of therapy and take medication, as a result." This would have been more "grounding" for me, to have heard this from her. Lastly, she brings in Hollywood Stars. Let's take Emma Stone as example. Since Woody Allen was not found guilty, I believe that Emma is behaving in a proper manner. Only after Emma reads Dylan's letter, can she decide if she wants to be in WA movies or not. Dylan jumps the gun, by asking Emma to decide before reading her letter. Its not fair. Dylan's writing techniques made me not "trust" her letter. And its sad, as I know there are people who will feel offended at this. There are many straightforward writers on the topic of sexual abuse and personal experience, that one can support and stand behind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-21676151911857465232014-02-11T06:14:22.715-06:002014-02-11T06:14:22.715-06:00plus you don't have to look much further for a...plus you don't have to look much further for a woman to be enraged than for a man in her life to marry her stepdaughter, if nothing else it triggers her own feelings about losing her youthful beautyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-11625918767346734792014-02-11T06:13:00.711-06:002014-02-11T06:13:00.711-06:00If Woody intended for the photos to be found why w...If Woody intended for the photos to be found why wouldn't he have put them out when Mia was scheduled to visit rather than just "dropping by"?<br /><br />Also pedophiles generally want to be able to continue their behavior, announcing to the world is a quick way of making that more difficult (I don't really care that much for his movies btw).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-2491981180334864802014-02-10T05:14:33.286-06:002014-02-10T05:14:33.286-06:00What stuns me are the hordes of people who pronoun...What stuns me are the hordes of people who pronounce Woody's guilt without reservation. For instance, this guy from Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-theater-the-brain/201402/dylan-farrow-victim-incestuous-pedophilia) doesn't consider any possibility but guilt. When advocates for abuse victims turn into zealots, all kinds of horrible injustices can come about, and Woody is getting his fair share right now in the media. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-28539531557567869062014-02-09T12:55:18.485-06:002014-02-09T12:55:18.485-06:00I believe the nude snaps of Soon-Yi were prominent...I believe the nude snaps of Soon-Yi were prominently displayed at Woody Allen's NY apartment -- on the mantlepiece! Mia Farrow happened to drop by. My interpretation has always been Woody intended her to find them. No wonder she was enraged.Altostratahttp://survivingantidepressants.orgnoreply@blogger.com