Full Description
This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have encountered a victim of complex mind control and ritual abuse, and most therapists feel deskilled in this work. Working with such clients is a challenge for therapists, given the extreme and prolonged nature of the clients' trauma, the severity of their dissociative disorders, the complexity of the mind control they have experienced, and the reality of organised perpetrator groups who follow up on their victims. Every therapist needs to know the basics of this work.
Chapter 1 defines and explains dissociation, ritual abuse, and mind control. It lists indicators which suggest a client may be a victim, and recommends developing 'reflective belief (or possibly) disbelief' rather than maintaining 'therapeutic neutrality'. Chapter 2, The therapeutic relationship, describes victims' training to not form bonds, the parental nature of the therapeutic bond with such clients, and practical ways to relate to someone dealing with internal multiplicity. Chapter 3, The life of a mind control survivor, describes victims' planned experiences from infancy all the way through adulthood. Chapter 4, Engineered personality systems, describes the most common forms of training or programming, and the 'jobs' of inner parts of the victim. Chapter 5, Stabilisation and internal safety, explains the way in which some parts punish the victim for disloyalty by creating destabilising symptoms. Chapter 6, Working with the personality system, describes internal hierarchies and how to work with them. Chapter 7, Present-day physical safety, looks at the ongoing torture and harassment of many victims by perpetrator groups, and describes the training of various parts to return to the perpetrators, report to them, and be available for further abuse. Chapter 8, Working through the traumatic memories, gives guidelines regarding how to help a client work through the numerous traumatic training memories. Chapter 9, Confronting the spiritual issues in ritual abuse, describes the perpetrators' spiritual/moral abuse and simulation of spiritual entities. It discusses the question of demonic possession, and looks at the real spiritual issues which victims and therapists must deal with. Chapter 10, Healing for our clients and ourselves, discusses victims' emotional healing, grieving, developing self-esteem and integration, and therapists' intimidation and vicarious traumatisation.
Contents
About the author
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Dissociation, ritual abuse and mind control
Dissociative splitting
Diagnoses
Ritual abuse and mind control
Recognising a survivor client
Remembering the abuse
Chapter 2: The therapeutic relationship
The therapeutic bond: parental and infant love
How abusers try to prevent the therapeutic bond
Talking with someone who's multiple
Developing the therapeutic relationship
Chapter 3: The life of a mind control victim
Infancy
Childhood
Adulthood
The groups' activities in the larger world
Chapter 4: Engineered personality systems
Sections within the brain
Appearing normal: the front
Programs and jobs of parts
Chapter 5: Stabilisation and internal safety
Programmed triggering
Internal hierarchies and leaders
Chapter 6: Working with the personality system
Higher-ups
Stopping programmed symptoms
Building inner community
Chapter 7: Present-day physical safety
Access programming
Monitoring of survivors
Chapter 8: Working through the traumatic memories
Three phases of treatment
Planning memory work
Processing a memory
Troubleshooting
Chapter 9: Confronting the spiritual issues in ritual abuse
Simulated religious scenarios
Spiritual/moral abuse: making victims believe they are evil
How does evil really work?
'Possession'
Guilt, shame and forgiveness
Making meaning of the abuse experience
Chapter 10: Healing for our clients and ourselves
Effects of the abuse on survivors
Healing tasks
Intimidation of therapists
Therapists' vicarious traumatisation
References
Index
