“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Provoking separatist hatreds is an aggressive weed. We all have dirty hands and a broken heart. Put down your flag before you… — Mikhayla Gracey Copy Share Image
“One example was the assertion that a seven-year FBI study revealed no evidence of organized cult or ritual activity in the United… — Pamela Sue Perskin Copy Share Image
“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined… — Arauna Morgan Copy Share Image
“Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that it occurs alongside other forms of organised abuse,… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Batley insisted that no cult existed but the jury found him guilty of 35 offences including 11 rapes. three indecent assaults, causing… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“There, there, best to bring it all up,' she said. My memory was in shreds. Imagine a photograph cut into narrow strips… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“This monograph by Special Agent Ken Lanning (1992) is merely a guide for those who may investigate this phenomenon, as the title… — Pamela Sue Perskin Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“Like the psychological model outlined above, the psychiatric understanding of ’organised paedophilia’ is a framework that is focused primarily on individual psychological… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, it remains the case that the psychological literature on organised abuse has not provided a coherent explanation for the emergence of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a… — Lloyd Demause Copy Share Image
“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason 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… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Lies to induce suicide • Children are told that it is honorable to die for the cause of the abusers (common with… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles;… — Glenn L. Pace Copy Share Image
“People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Survivors' accounts reveal activities which are not only criminal but deliberately and brutally sadistic almost beyond belief.” — Susan C. Van Benschoten Copy Share Image
“It is important to learn about being multiple, and what works for their healing, from your client. To work with the alters,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image