“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.” — Valerie Sinason 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
“It is hardly surprising that many survivors of ritual abuse develop DID in order to preserve their own sanity.” — Joan Coleman 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
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Also, look for “floating alters.” These are not deliberately created parts of the system, but alters that were accidentally split off at… — Alison Miller 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
“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“The town was more than ready to accept the window dressing that hid the ugly truth of Joe's guilt. Some shared the… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming. In DDNOS,… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against… — Orit Badouk Epstein Copy Share Image
“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“I honestly didn't believe I could bear any more suffering. I was convinced that the child within me was just too young… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication… — Alison Miller 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
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington 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
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson 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
“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton 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
“There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American… — 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
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“There was nothing you could be sure about, it was all lies, and it was all done to mess with minds because… — 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
“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against… — 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… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality.… — Suzie Burke 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
“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
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