“It is unlikely that one ANP will serve as a constant throughout the person's life. Your client is, therefore, likely to have others besides the ones you know, or several who you might think of as "the host". Adults with… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“The "apparently normal personality" - the alter you view as "the client" You should not assume that the adult who function in the world, or who presents to you, week after week, is the "real" person, and the other personalities… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or she has a "black heart" - seeing the abuser holding an animal heart and then feeling severe chest pain while it is supposedly inserted. In "brain transplants", the brain of an abuser or of a despised… — Alison Miller Copy Share
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings which you must have done, but do not remember producing. Perhaps you find child-sized clothing or toys in your home but have no children. You might also hear voices or babies crying in your head. Imagine that you… — Alison Miller Copy Share
“Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have the most sophisticated technologies, and much training or programming is now done with virtual reality equipment. Movies and holograms are used to deceive a child into believing in things that are unreal. When a client says to you… — Alison Miller Copy Share
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In fact, rather than being "more" than the others, the ANP is generally one that is very limited, with little power in the system,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more therapists have… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“When one of my early teachers, for instance, recognized that many ritually abused clients were still being abused while in treatment, she insisted that… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image