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25th October 2012, 04:08 AM | #81 |
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Unfortunately the satanic panic and false memories are highly relevant to a situation we have here in the UK right now regarding the late paedophile and BBC celebrity kids TV presenter Jimmy Savile.
Just in case anyone missed it ITV recently broadcast a documentary exposing Savile's sexual assaults on young girls and this caused many other victims to come forward to tell of also being abused by Savile. Savile's abuse of children occurred over decades with assaults going back to the 1960s, so memory and the validity of memories over time is a central issue. The ITV documentary can be viewed in full here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdmTj-jQ4Q At the end of the documentary a telephone number and website is provided for people to call. The number and website are for the controversial charity the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC). The charity is controversial because it recommends the notorious book The Courage to Heal to people contacting them and also because NAPAC head Peter Saunders dismisses concerns about false memories as nonsense and describes the False Memory Society as a "dangerous group" and an "enemy" of NAPAC. From Saunder's blog (titles "Pete the Big Chief" - so nothing remotely narcissistic about that then)
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http://petethebigchief.blogspot.co.uk/ NAPAC's views on ritual abuse, as disclosed in their newsletters are as follows:
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I am extremely concerned that the ITV is promoting NAPAC as an organisation that people who remember abuse by Jimmy Savile should contact given their dangerous views about recovered memories and ritual abuse. The situation is worse because for some years David Icke and his fans have been claiming that Jimmy Savile was involved with a Satanist cult, along with various member of the British royal family and senior politicians, that abused children and sacrificed them to Satan. It is clear to me that Jimmy Savile definitely abused lots of children. Given the delicacy of human memory it is essential that victims from decades past receive suitable professional help and support. Referring victims to a dangerous organisation that encourages its clients to recover memories using The Courage to Heal and unethical therapeutic methodologies risks endangering an important criminal investigation as well as the risk of abusing victims and discrediting their real memories and accounts of what happened to them. relevant links for further reading http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/bl...x-abuse-church http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/bl...d-sexual-abuse |
25th October 2012, 06:27 AM | #83 |
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I would say both. I am open to clarification by any professionals in this forum, but from what I gather in the US, "talk therapy" or traditional psychotherapy used to be done by folks who held a medical degree or PhDs. Of course that didn't make them immune from this crap as a great deal of the folks who started it, Cornelia Wilbur (Sybil's "Dr.") Ross, Kluft, et al. fell into those camps.
Insurance and other changes in the mental health industry now mean a person in the US likely to seek therapy today is not going to see someone with a PhD or medical training. The sad part of that is most of the folk with higher education in the field today DON'T believe this stuff. However, the person they are likely to see, a licensed social worker, has a concerning probability of falling for all sorts of BS therapies. I gotta find a study someone did on social workers and unproven therapies. Social workers can pick up continuing ed credits by going and hearing "experts" babble on about Satanic Abuse and other wild stuff. These workshops and others like them are held not only by the ISSTD but at holistic health centers like Omega in NY that also host psychics. These social workers come back all pumped up from these workshops and start looking for this stuff in their patients. Someone mentioned "Courage to Heal" above. I think Carol Tavris pointed out how that one workshop virus alone (the authors have no psych training) led to a nightmare number of RMT cases. Doug mentions Corydon Hammond in his review. This "Dr." was giving talks with the ISSTD blessings--and is held in high esteem in Judy Byington's book---on the connection among Satanic Worship, Nazi mind control and multiple personalities. There is no labeling of the equivalent "homeopathic practitioner" among therapists. A therapist is a therapist. It's not until the damage is done that people find out about the wild beliefs some of these "professionals" navigate by. |
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Unfortunately here in the UK the main accrediting body for psychotherapists, the UKCP, has accredited organisations that train people in woo based "body psychotherapy" (as is the body itself has memories that can be released / recovered via massage), "breathwork" (basically hyperventilating), NLP, hypnotism and even past life regression, therapy based on Sufi mysticism and "soul initiation" and a load of other weirdness.
Within the UKCP is a group of highly influential and (to put it nicely) eccentric individuals who have been campaigning against HPC registration and the increased public protection that it would confer. Many of these individuals have a background in hippy theatre groups, encounter groups, EST, Byron Katie, the Hoffman Process, the Landmark Forum and other cult like groups. Prominent among them was until recently the chair of the UKCP, Professor Andrew Samuels a man with a reputation of being a cult apologist and also of being extremely unboundaried in terms of having sexual relationships with his students and supervisees. I was warned to stay away from him on many occasions during my training and work at psychotherapy organisations, some of these occasions the warnings came from women who he had seduced. He is surrounded by sycophants who turn a blind eye to his sexual escapades. Interesting man. Spends a lot of time in Russia. Vast numbers of UKCP accredited, insured psychotherapists incorporate "energy medicine", astrology, shamanism, "ecstatic dance" and all kinds of woo into their practice and the UKCP is absolutely fine with it. I believe it is a disgraceful and dangerous situation. |
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[quote=Ellen Travis;8718624]Unfortunately here in the UK the main accrediting body for psychotherapists, the UKCP, has accredited organisations that train people in woo based "body psychotherapy"...
I'd like to believe it's different here, in the US, but I'm not so sure. New age thinking among the type of folk who enter social work here based on what I've read and seen is pretty high. Of course, the book in question here doesn't even have a woman holding a valid license in social work...and she's doing therapy and promoting herself as CEO of a "Trauma Research Center"...which just means Judy Byington set-up a website to do therapy at $25 a session with no license. NPR regurgitated that BS as a credential...mindblowing. |
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Ellen -- I'm very glad to see you chime in. Have we spoken before? I have spoken to a few people who have put me on to very similar information in the UK where this body psychotherapy foolishness seems to spread out into brothels in Eastern Europe where girls who have "recovered memories" of abuse are made to believe that providing sexual services to clients is therapeutic both for the client and for themselves. At least, that's my understanding. I'm sure most people don't grasp just how powerful an indoctrination re-narrating the autobiographical memory can be.
In any case, being in the UK and concerned with therapeutic malpractice related to recovered memories, I hope you're aware of this: http://www.justiceforcarol.com/ |
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Hail Satan!
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I tried that repressed memory recovery thing.
You know what? My car keys weren't under the couch. It's all bunk. On a serious note, does this remind anyone else of Scientology and the e-meter? |
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Yes. This is a connection that most people don't make, but Scientology is essentially a recovered memory psychotherapy cult. In their auditing they are very concerned with things like "pre-birth traumas" and -- I forget the language at the moment -- but a bunch of "forgotten" or "repressed" nonsense that is assumed to be there that fits with their convoluted pulp sci-fi fantasy.
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25th October 2012, 12:38 PM | #94 |
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This whole trauma link should be taken on by researchers. Making the slightest or totally fabricated childhood event into a "trauma" to be looped over and over again in therapy is creating real trauma for therapy patients. Byington named herself CEO an alleged "Trauma Research Center." What "center"? She most likely works out of her home, duping folks on Skype. She has no credentials...her social worker license expired long ago, yet the top Utah papers and an NPR station were/are unwilling to do the 15 minutes of work it would take to determine this.
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25th October 2012, 01:13 PM | #95 |
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It is not the satanic stuff that concerns me
You mentioned brothels in your earlier post The people involved in trafficking are extremely dangerous people*, you know with guns, paramilitary connections, that kind of thing. Seriously dude, it's not a good idea to post about that stuff under your real name *Including the scientologists |
25th October 2012, 01:23 PM | #96 |
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At least learning that would have taken a little research. But they have her on talking about her book, and the least you would expect from that is that somebody would be aware what the book was really about. I find it simply ponderous that I see she has all these interviews and appearances lined up, and her book is as absurd as it is. I feel like I'm the only person who has actually read the filth. None of what I've included in my dissection of the book is artistic license or hyperbole. It really is about a woman who has ESP, who was abused by a Jewish Nazi Satanist brought to the US by the CIA, was saved from ritual sacrifice by the Lord Jeee-sus hisself (or at least a description of him), had to restrain herself from "messing around" with levitation, was instructed by the voice of God (presumably) to write the book, and has been possessed by demons. How do you get somebody who writes a book like that on your show and ask her a question like, "so tell me about this misunderstood diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder"???
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25th October 2012, 01:31 PM | #98 |
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Oh, while I'm on the subject of Jimmy Savile
This child molester was given keys to access all the bedrooms at Broadmoor Hospital and young women patients there have claimed that he sexually abused them on site at the hospital. Here is a photo of Savile at Broadmoor introducing his friend the boxer Frank Bruno to another of his friends the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe (aka the Yorkshire Ripper). Astonishingly Savile was actually in charge of the entire hospital for a period of time and could pretty much do whatever he wanted http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...volunteer-role You might wonder who the consultant psychiatrist has been at Broadmoor for over 20 years? None other than Gwen Adshead, friend of Valerie Sinason and author of various demented papers about Satanic Ritual Abuse. |
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Or maybe took their "research" to the point of glancing at Judy Byington's Twenty-two Faces Amazon page where all her friends have voted up her book. Thanks again to all the JREF folks who voted down the bizarre glowing reviews and up the critical ones...still got a bit to go before any of the critical ones can get top ranking though. C'mon JREFers jump on in and click...it's all the skepti-rage, so to speak
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Really, go read his stuff. He's taken on former CIA folk, cults, and one of the the big brothers of all conspiracy theorists, Colin Ross, and he's still smilin'. Doug Mesner=debunking. He'd have to pull his name from the Interwebs to be clean of it. Ain't gonna happen.
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I've gone to Amazon and done my up and down-voting. Luckily the closest I've ever gotten to that crap is being from Wenatchee, but I'd moved away many years before their SRA scandal.
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If you want to see how sad the people who believe in this therapy and Judy's book can be, check this out. Mind you, many of Judy's followers claim to be devote Christians and her publishers is a Christian vanity publisher...you would think they would have a little humanity, right?
On Judy's Amazon page, someone by the name of "So Stormy" detailed how this therapy devastated her life. They are voting her post down! Check it out http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Two-Fac...owViewpoints=0 |
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Could someone please reassure me that there are psychologists out there who aren't completely crazy? These examples you're all sharing are really nasty and I just need to assure myself that the profession isn't completely irredeemable. I really don't want to have to agree with the Scientologists about something.
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There are indeed. The thing is...the APA won't come down on these folks and won't take DID out of the DSM. They let this guy head up the working group for the diagnosis. Look at him inducing alters in a blind woman @ 3:53. Notice where the narrator refers to inducing these personalities through HYPNOSIS @ 6:08!!! This is David Spiegel, Stanford professor, and ISSTD biggie. He is Head of the Working Group for DID's inclusion in the DSM...guess what he concluded?
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Jeanette Bartha is a woman of extreme strength and courage who clawed her way out of MPD "therapy" , sued her psychiatrist, and then set up a web site called "Multiple Personalities Don't Exist".
For her efforts to open up a dialogue with interested people about the existance or non-existance of MPD/DID she was repeatedly attacked, horribly online by "believers". One person wrote to her that he wished Jeanette would be raped and tortured (in detail) and that her children would be raped, tortured and killed before her eyes. to read about Jeanette Bartha link to this article written by Doug Mesner: http://www.process.org/discept/2009/...nnette-bartha/ |
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Well, one "believer" over at Amazon just stepped in it, bigtime. After making a full-time job of putting down every positive review of Debbie Nathan's "Sybil Exposed", arguing with researchers and taking on Jennette...Felicity Lee was on Judy's Amazon page tonight dissing another victim of the therapy and denying things under two screen names. Nice play for the head of a non-profit that collects money from DID victims. Doug will have a nice little post on his blog about it tomorrow...with screen shots! These folks are too much.
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Seems pretty suspicious to me too Orphia Nay, there are rumours that Doug Mesner is an Exhalted Grand Highest of all Highest Lords of the mysterious Illuminati/Masonic/Alien/CIA affiliated Satanists, and you just know that they have been following everything you write on the internet tubes. Altus denies meeting Doug but can we believe that ? Just kidding, welcome aboard Altus |
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Just to clarify, it's Satanists, not Stalinists, right?
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Jesus wept
Of course I have read his stuff I contacted him because I was familiar with his work One of the conditions of me contacting him was that he was careful with the information I gave him because the perpetrators involved are so dangerous. I'm not talking about Satan hunters and CTers but very serious organised criminals. |
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No apologies needed! You are a skeptic. You are right to be a skeptic. I am flattered by your skepticism. I'm a bit of a forum freak on DID. That's how I know so much. The forum that Roma posted about above http://mentalhealthmatters2.wordpress.com/ was where I cut my skeptical teeth and learned about Doug. He pops in every now and then. I've since joined a skeptic group where I live a few months back. It's like a breath of fresh air.
I was woo too...not anymore. No going back. In my purse, I carry Moon Drops and an empty Occicilium vile (perfect metaphor)---that I bought believing too recently for comfort---for on-site friends and family education sessions. I can't wait 'til I can use a graphic with my name. I have a rainbowed unicorn passing skittles in a cloud of methane. How many posts before I can use it? PS. Since you are interested in what is happening at Amazon, I am CritThink there...conversation with the believers under Stormy's post is ongoing. I met Felicity in Jeanette's forum. Looking forward to Doug's post on her. I think he has some background on her in addition to what I know. Like Judy Byington she runs a non-profit. The sad thing is she collects money from DID victims. Sad, sad, stuff. |
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Nice to see you here, Roma...I know you're a veteran here. Speaking of the ol' conspiracy crapploa, have you, by the way, seen the latest bird turd Colin Ross...who wrote the intro to Twenty-two Faces is engaging in? He's on the intertubes with a nice suit now instead of jeans and beaming eye goggles a la Pigasus award, but talking the same lunacy. The site that sponsors this crap is a homeopathic video mill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCxs...feature=relmfu
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Oh my God !! Altus I just watched that youtube video and wanted so badly to reach out through the computer screen and bitch slap that guy.
As a former patient of Dr.Colin Ross and having miraculously survived his illegal drug experiments I cannot believe that he is explaining medical ethics regarding the CIA and drug experiments. All he did as a practicing psychiatrist was try to replicate those CIA experiments on his patients. Maybe some one should ask him how many of his MPD/DID patients died under his care. MPD/DID is not regarded as a terminal illness. Oh wait a minute, I did ask him, he just shrugged his shoulders and answered: "It's just fate". |
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You guys should see this utterly bizarre exchange in the comments under this Amazon review of 22 Faces. Somebody popped on under the name "Christopher Allen" dismissing the negative reviews as "negative", part of an "agenda", and a "silly game". We replied, then the commenter changed her name form Christopher Allen to "F. Lee" and accused us being confused in our replies that had addressed her as Christopher. Bizarre as that is, it is also infuriating when you can dissect a claim point-by-point only to be dismissed by some people as being too negative or as being part of a suspicious "agenda", and therefore they feel exonerated from having to suffer the dissonance of considering your facts.
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