Amos,

"Because even though one cannot change the mind of the perpetrator one can certainly examine the assumptions, decisions, and computations one used to walk the path leading up to it and decide, once one has viewed those things, how one might change them going forward in order to re-assume a sense of deciding one's own life."


Ah I see, so you aren't discussing the thread topic and the article which inspired it, but the psychological recovery of a rape victim from the trauma of the attack?


So in the case of the woman who decides to stay in and watch TV with a cup of cocoa and the woman who agreed to go to her bosses office, would they in your view benefit equally from this reflective process or does it only apply to the one who dresses up in fun clothes and goes out for a drink?


I just need you to be clear on those two points.