“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
“the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious orthodoxy historically outweighs onslaught by Satanists” — Valerie sinason 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The only real, true, permanent way to destroy your mind control is to work through the memories. It's unfortunate because it's unpleasant.… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Then, suddenly, the work became dangerous, not only for clients but for therapists as well. A well-funded, highly organized opposition appeared, seemingly… — 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
“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
“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
“Denial returned, like a nagging cough you can never quite shake. Actually, it was always close at hand, and even though "satanic… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter 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 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
“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
“I was increasingly both horrified and sceptical about these memories - I had no recall of these things at all, though I… — Carolyn Bramhall 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… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I have met survivors from different parts of the country who have reported being ritually abused, some on college campuses by administrators,… — Robert B. Rockwell Copy Share Image
“I have stated elsewhere (Sinason 1994) that the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious and racial… — Valerie sinason 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… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I'm back in the basement of the Ascension Catholic Church, Francisco. And Little Suzie is here. She's lying on an alter, and… — Suzie Burke 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
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and… — Laurie Matthew 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
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