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From the article: "Dr. Ross admitted that he did read comic books as a kid, but said that he did not get the idea from the X-Men: “I used to love the standard stuff: Green Lantern, The Flash, Batman, but probably I liked Atom Ant best.”
I see what his problem is: During the sixties he was reading DC Comics instead of the then-far superior Marvel line. |
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Atom Ant was never a "standard" comic book; the little fellow appeared almost solely as a short-lived Hanna-Barbera animated TV series, except for a couple of very brief comic book cameos with other characters. I suspect Dr. Ross is thinking of The Atom, which really was a standard comic series.
So in other words, Dr. Ross's fond recollection of reading Adam Ant comics as a child is almost certainly...a false memory. |
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In the news today...
The Psychiatric Times has pulled a piece on the history of the SRA panic by Richard Noll out of (I gather) fears of legal retribution from the psychiatrists it damns for promoting SRA myths and MPD. But you can read a pdf of the article here: http://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w...2013-12-06.pdf |
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Meanwhile, former Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, Allen Frances speaks up against MPD/DID in the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-...b_4695915.html A nice snippet: "Having seen hundreds of patients who claimed to house multiple personalities, I have concluded that the diagnosis is always (or at least almost always) a fake, even though the patients claiming it are usually (but not always) sincere." |
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Thanks for posting this, Orphia! Dr. John Nardo offers some insight on his blog about why Dr. Noll's article was pulled:
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wow take a look at these guys http://ritualabusefree.org/ they seem to be some of the orignal promoters of SRA and they are still around today.... and one of these promoters claim that she was an SRA victim herself!
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There is, or was, a fellow named Preston Nichols who claims to have been abducted by the government as a child and subjected to ritualized sexual abuse as part of a top secret Air Force child-super-soldier time-travel project (it's complicated). The culmination of the "project" was some big experiment at a base in Montauk, New York, which went badly and all the people involved with the project were brainwashed and given new memories. Has anybody else heard about this story?
At any rate, Preston "recovered" his memories and wrote some progressively-weirder books about the project, which started off as some nominally sci-fi story about technological time travel and morphed into some metaphysical goulash with psychic powers and encounters with mythological figures and a time-travel portal powered by human orgasms. And evidently people would read these books and "feel some connection" with the events therein, would visit Preston, and after spending some time with him would likewise "recover" memories of things that happened during the project. There are parallels to be drawn between SRA and Preston's "microcult", I think. |
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Yes, I heard a bit about this story. It's based on the rather avant-garde theory that human orgasms can tear open the fabric of time, and that the orgasms of teenage males are the strongest orgasms of all -- thus a bunch of teen boys all getting it off simultaneously actually allows for time travel (or something). I can't even begin to speculate on what kind of mind would conceive such a harebrained and perverted idea, but I suppose it earns a point or two for novelty. (I guess those circle jerks back in the Boy Scouts were a lot more dangerous than we ever gave them credit for.)
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Has it ever occurred to you that people don't talk about ritual satanic abuse because its real? haha
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People do talk about satanic ritual abuse. This thread alone has over 2000 posts and was begun over a year ago.
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David Shurter and Pat Goodwin have been heavily promoting their conference on Amazon, and David made this statement recently:
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I sort of hope Colin Ross decides to weigh in on this. Ross must really be falling on hard times if he's actually requesting to speak at such an event, and worse, being turned down. (Shurter's comment archived here) |
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Just came across this
http://www.vice.com/read/ritual-abus...uary-vielseits I don't know how widespread the belief in ritual abuse is in Germany, but I'm beyond pissed that this 'journalist' reprinted the claims made by the doctor in charge of the shelter so uncritically. |
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The comments are mostly skeptical.
This woman sounds like she should be on the other side of the therapist's desk. There are only 3 therapists in Germany listed in the ISST-D therapist database. Oddly this woman isn't one of them, but then, she's probably got a conspiracy theory about them, too. |
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Yeah, except the ones that aren't. I commented on the fact that Vice were repeating the woman's claims uncritically and got called
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http://www.komtra.info/der-beirat.html They're in German, though. I wonder if someone here who speaks the language could be bothered to review them. |
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Thanks for sharing this, and I see that you've incurred the wrath of the conspiracy theorists. I just don't understand how they can miss all the contradictions here?
-- "From an outsider's perspective, these are women who appear to have led seemingly normal lives—their everyday persona wouldn't have been aware of the abuse they were subjected to at night, weekends, or on school holidays." -- "The victims are subjected to near-death situations—with the help of electric shocks, waterboarding, or other forms of torture—from an early age, and then they're "rescued" by their tormentors." -- "They place their victims in near-death situations by extreme violence just for the sake of it." This seems to be the standard litany for "ritual abuse survivors". They all claim to have experienced sadistic torture, "extreme violence" and "near-death situations" yet there's never anyone from their past who remembers anything being out of the ordinary; no one ever remembers any physical injuries, and they never seem to have any scars. It's horrifying that this quack psychotherapist manages to stay in business. Of course, the therapist says: "We see fresh wounds and scars on the bodies of victims daily. We have an abundance of abuser names, crime scenes, and documented experiences. A few women here have photos and other things documenting the abuse." Yet, they rarely go to the police, because when they have in the past: "Often an identity that is still loyal to the network will purposefully mislead officers so that police investigate, only to find that none of the claims are true." So, their claims often turn out to be false, and this psychotherapist deals with that by no longer reporting these (alleged) violent crimes. And then she implicates the entire community: "Clients [the same clients who give false reports to investigators!] report that people from all different walks of life and from all occupation groups are part of the networks. They range from the police to the judiciary, people in public administration, university lecturers, medical workers, psychologists, hypnotists, politicians.... Certain names come up repeatedly. In exchange with other clients and colleagues across Germany, we are able to cross-validate these names. Some are renowned, award-winning people." |
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The similarities between the modern Satanic Abuse craze and the old Witchcraze are striking. Just like the old Witch hunters here we find that the new "Witch hunters" contend that they are dealing with a vast Satanic conspiracy with people in high places commiting unspeakable acts and conspiring at the same time to conceal them.
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Well, I decided to do a search to see if there are any such folk in Massachusetts the home of the Witch Trials. Lo and behold:
***** ******* LICSW Brookline, MA 02446 United States Primary Language(s) Spoken: English Credentials: LICSW Discipline or Specialty: Psychotherapy,Social Work Special Interests: Adolescence, Adulthood, EMDR, Hypnosis, Ritual Abuse And the interesting thing is she shows up in the Internal Family Systems database as well! -the same therapy used at Castlewood, home to the latest horrific Satanic Ritual Abuse lawsuits. First Name: ***** Last Name: ******* Certifications: Hypnotherapy, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Focus: Individuals, Couples, Trauma, Dissociation, Sexuality Insurance: Medicare, BCBS Credentials: LICSW City: Brookline State: Massachusetts Zip: 02446 Country: United States Now what's interesting is really how questionable therapies that are used to construct abuse narratives (often in people with no memory of having been abused.) Hypnotherapy has shown up in lawsuit after lawsuit in connection to false memories (to his credit, Doctor Phil did a pretty critical show about it this week where he deconstructed a woman's abuse claims - interesting how this thread has come around since starting.) Internal Family Systems, invented by Richard Schwartz (who lives Massachuesetts now after leaving Castlewood!) during the height of the repressed memory/Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria uses role play as its foundation (it's totally non-evidence based woo and potentially dangerous because it assumes the role play is getting at the "TRUTH" and never seeks corroboration.) These therapists who specialize in narrative making BS seem to flock to it along with EMDR . Found this thread on IFS. http://www.fdrliberated.com/forum/index.php?topic=225.0 Good comment: "What makes it [Internal Family Systems] dangerous? ... Perhaps it's treating "parts" as real...because that's irrational." So if I got to an IFS therapist and have a part that says I was "ritually abused" looks like I'll have no problem getting taken seriously and using health insurance money to pay for my treatment. What year is this and why is a BS therapy like Internal Family Systems flourishing? (Oh, by the way, I read Richard's book and on the conceal part...it says right in the book if your part is unwilling to talk about something, that's confirmation there is often something secret going on!) |
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I did a little search of the ritual abuse database compliments of the *professional* association I would rather not name and found there are therapists all over the country treating "ritual abuse." The problem is, it looks like they don't list that on their web pages so how can people avoid this BS if these therapists are not being up front about their delusions? One web page caught my eye from the database entirely because of its unintentional humor:
http://www.bsnowtherapy.com/ Reading through her nicely-worded site I found she claimed she used "clinically effective and empirically based techniques." Then something caught my eye: "Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center." Oh, yeah, this Doctor Snow:
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Still licensed, still practicing in the exact same area, apparently with our author in her backyard here trying to profit from the horrors detailed above. How is anyone supposed to know, given the current state of mental health, what kind of care they will get when they walk through the door of a mental health professional? Where are the boards to weed these people out? I found a therapist in NYC! (This is not limited to religious areas of the country or Christians.) You can't expect the average consumer to be able to assess these licensed professionals when they are in a vulnerable state. |
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Don't forget that the illustrious Neil Brick, licensed, practicing Mental Health Counselor and Illuminati super-assassin,** also lives in Massachusetts. For those just tuning in, here are Brick's own words about his childhood/adolescent experience as a Satanic Ritual Abuse victim, and later as a super-solider for the Satanists/Illuminati. On his website, 6th paragraph from the end, Brick says:
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From the same lecture, end of the 17th paragraph:
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And the 21st paragraph:
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Neil Brick: a practicing therapist with unresolved anger issues; who engages in self-harm and acts out in anger. A therapist that, in his own words, has committed rape and murder. I'm sure his clients aren't given this information, but they really should be. They should be able to decide for themselves if they're willing to be treated by a counselor who's deeply, perhaps dangerously delusional himself (or, assuming he's sane, is actually a rapist and murderer). In another lecture, 9th paragraph, he says:
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Many of you probably already know that Brick also holds conferences and online seminars for which other mental health professional can get Continuing Education Credits. It's hard not to become jaded about the entire mental health care system when a guy like Neil Brick not only stays licensed and remains in practice, but actually charges money to spread his dangerous quackery to other professionals. ** a super-assassin who stands about 5'6" and weighs all of 120 lbs |
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I suppose that's true, but if you ever see any of his youtube videos or find pictures of him online, suffice it to say, his appearance doesn't instill confidence in his story. If I remember correctly, some of his tales include hand to hand combat, which really doesn't seem plausible at all when you see him.
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Twenty-Two Faces update
Jenny Hill's son Robert Steffen left a comment on Amazon in response to Pat Goodwin (aka "Felicity Lee", "JustAnotherSurvivor", etc):
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To be clear, the people who contacted Jenny Hill are Pat Goodwin and David Shurter. I'm not saying it's an iron-clad case against her, but last June or July, Judy Byington was told to stop her harassing contact with Jenny Hill, and within a few months, two of Judy's most ardent supporters ended up with Jenny Hill's contact information and took it upon themselves to attempt a visit (which apparently fell through). Their behavior has been deplorable, and Judy and Pat still have influence over quite a few very vulnerable people. Robert, if you're still reading this thread: I certainly understand the futility of trying to engage in any kind of ongoing discussion over there. Thank you for stopping in anyway on occasion to set the record straight. |
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Now that's a decidedly creepy development.
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Interesting piece from Fred over at Patheos about Byington.
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Thanks for the article, catsmate1! It, and the comments, were reassuringly rational, and very amusing.
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Huh. So I just clicked on that dreaded 'other' button in my FB message repository and found this.
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Dr Phil promotes "Satanic Ritual Abuse" conspiracy theory
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