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Psychohistory and Family among Antebellum Slaveholders

This article examines the macroscopic reasons for maternal rage and its injection into slaveholder children in the antebellum South. 

It is argued that the misogyny that infected antebellum life metastasized in southern mistresses and affected the way they felt about themselves and their children. As mothers, they were casual parents, concerned with molding the character of their charges, rearing warriors and proper ladies, but uninterested in caring for them and helping them realize their own aspirations. It is argued that the misanthropic rage that they injected into their children constituted the poison that each generation of slaveholders had to ventilate into poison containers, slaves, as a homeostatic means of psycho-emotional survival. 

This intergenerational process of poison injection--from father to mother, from mother to child, from child to slave, constituted the process that insured the perpetuation of the psychic structure necessary for the continuation of slavery from generation to generation.

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By:  Adams KA.

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It's Not My Place: Formative Evaluation Research to Design a Bystander Intervention Campaign

Sexual misconduct remains a problem on college campuses despite years of documentation and research, and program development and implementation. The purpose of this study was to conduct systematic theory-based formative audience research to understand how college women and men make meaning of sexual assault and bystander intervention. 

A total of 69 men and women aged 18 to 24 years participated in eight gender-specific focus group discussions. A grounded theory approach was used to identify patterns and themes across the data. Themes emerging from the data included the following: (a) female participants' experiences of sexism and misogyny, (b) the myth that rape is falsely reported, (c) complex understandings of consent and entitlement, (d) the reluctance to stop someone from having a "good time," (e) the role of alcohol as a moderating factor in sexual misconduct and bystander intervention, and (f) preference for direct and impactful messaging. 

This study informs researchers and practitioners about college students' perceptions of, and experiences with, bystander intervention and sexual assault. Practitioners can use this information to develop effective mixed media, campus-wide social marketing campaigns.

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By: DeMaria AL1, Sundstrom B2, Grzejdziak M2, Booth K2, Adams H3, Gabel C2, Cabot J2.

• 1College of Charleston, SC, USA demariaa@cofc.edu.
• 2College of Charleston, SC, USA.
• 3Medical University of South Carolina, SC, USA.

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