Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £10.80
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £10.80, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Product Description
Review
Although my father wrote about dissociation and multiple personality, it wasn't until Valerie Sinason asked me to do some filming for a survivor of ritual abuse that the penny really dropped. We had been filming the locations where much of the abuse had occurred and the woman asked me 'Do you believe me?' and I realized that I did. This book of papers from a pioneering conference of survivors and therapists stands as a testament to the courage of those willing to come forward to name and identify the horrors of organized abuse practiced on children in our society. Every therapist should read it. --Sir Richard Bowlby
This book, and the remarkable conference it documents, has brought together an impressive group of experts, professional and experiential, to discuss one of the most controversial issues in the fields of trauma and mental health. Attachment theory can definitely throw new light on a topic that some sceptics might prefer be left in the dark altogether. --John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology, the University of Auckland
All books written by mental health professionals require intelligence, compassion, and sensitivity from their authors, but few demand courage. The contributors to this impressive and chilling collection of essays deserve our deepest thanks for their bravery in exploring and exposing the most ugly underbelly of human psychology. In sensitive and measured prose, these cutting-edge colleagues have managed to help us understand that extreme abuse, mind control, torture, and other forms of multi-perpetrator assault do exist, and that to deny the personal testimony of survivors, as well the growing body of clinical and forensic evidence, represents a horrific attack. The editors and authors of this collection share their moving psychotherapeutic work in a modest manner, helping all contemporary workers to develop a greater appreciation of the important work that demands our respect and our attention. I recommend this book as necessary reading for all who care about human dignity. --Professor Brett Kahr, Centre for Child Mental Health, London
This book, and the remarkable conference it documents, has brought together an impressive group of experts, professional and experiential, to discuss one of the most controversial issues in the fields of trauma and mental health. Attachment theory can definitely throw new light on a topic that some sceptics might prefer be left in the dark altogether. --John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology, the University of Auckland
All books written by mental health professionals require intelligence, compassion, and sensitivity from their authors, but few demand courage. The contributors to this impressive and chilling collection of essays deserve our deepest thanks for their bravery in exploring and exposing the most ugly underbelly of human psychology. In sensitive and measured prose, these cutting-edge colleagues have managed to help us understand that extreme abuse, mind control, torture, and other forms of multi-perpetrator assault do exist, and that to deny the personal testimony of survivors, as well the growing body of clinical and forensic evidence, represents a horrific attack. The editors and authors of this collection share their moving psychotherapeutic work in a modest manner, helping all contemporary workers to develop a greater appreciation of the important work that demands our respect and our attention. I recommend this book as necessary reading for all who care about human dignity. --Professor Brett Kahr, Centre for Child Mental Health, London
Product Description
People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated, facing the same levels of disbelief and denial from other professionals within the mental health field. This report - based on proceedings from a conference on the subject - presents knowledge and experience from both clinicians and survivors to promote understanding and recovery from organized and ritual abuse, mind control and programming. The book combines clinical presentations, survivors' voices, and research material to help address the ways in which we can work clinically with mind control and cult programming from the perspective of relational psychotherapy.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are a lot of topics that people shy away from, and the reality of organised/ritual abuse may be near the top of the list. It's too shocking, too disturbing, to contemplate the extremes of child abuse that are too often perpetrated, so we 'dissociate' from it - we cut off, we deny, and we sit back in the safety and comfort of not knowing. It's not comfortable to read this book - especially the chapter 'Love is My Religion', which is a first-hand account of growing up in an organised/ritual abuse setting - and it calls into question our whole sense of societal safety. If this stuff really goes on - and it does - then what kind of society are we to let it, and to do so little to challenge it, and why aren't we helping the victims more? A book like this provokes those kinds of questions. It's not a book for bedtime, but it is a book that eloquently and potently challenges our assumptions about the world we live in. Just remember: the people behind the chapters - the survivor accounts, told either in person or through the authors - are REAL people. This isn't an intellectual, theoretical book that sits at a comfortable distance from people's very real suffering - it is a visceral journey into the horrors that thousands upon thousands of people in this country have endured. Read it and be inspired.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has been long awaited by the counselling community! It not only gives clear information about how these conditions come about, but imaginative and helpful suggestions as to how one can work with clients to combat the effects of mind control. It has become my most useful reference book to date.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
6 reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A New Book on Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, and Attachment
4 May 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The new book, published in Britian, "Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs", presents clear, solid, descriptions of ritual abuse and mind control and their treatment, in a moving, believable, style. Various authors present information from various points of view, and one chapter, the lengthy chapter by Ellen Lacter, PhD, "Torture Based Mind Control: Psychological Mechanisms and Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Overcoming Mind Control", was especially
helpful to my understanding. It was a remarkable read, slow and difficult at first , because of the descriptions of such horrible torture inflicted on little kids, and then awesomely inspiring when Dr.Lacter wrote about treatment, including the eventual relocation of abused alters to a place of healing in the inner landscape, which was lovely. Much of this chapter was new material that I have never read anywhere. Hopefully it, and the rest of the book, will cause people to wake up and believe that these terrible forms of abuse exist, and that survivors can be successfully treated. I think the path to healing that Dr. Lacter describes will provide much hope to survivors, and to therapists working in the areas of trauma, dissociation, and attachment. The focus by all authors on the tragedy of deliberately abusing attachment, and how the effets of this are treated, is especially important. In my opinion this book is a "must read".
helpful to my understanding. It was a remarkable read, slow and difficult at first , because of the descriptions of such horrible torture inflicted on little kids, and then awesomely inspiring when Dr.Lacter wrote about treatment, including the eventual relocation of abused alters to a place of healing in the inner landscape, which was lovely. Much of this chapter was new material that I have never read anywhere. Hopefully it, and the rest of the book, will cause people to wake up and believe that these terrible forms of abuse exist, and that survivors can be successfully treated. I think the path to healing that Dr. Lacter describes will provide much hope to survivors, and to therapists working in the areas of trauma, dissociation, and attachment. The focus by all authors on the tragedy of deliberately abusing attachment, and how the effets of this are treated, is especially important. In my opinion this book is a "must read".
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
At last an explanation
7 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
What the authors have specially brought to advocacy for survivors of ritual abuse and mind control is, at last, a unifying psychological explanation for the efficacy of the bizarre assaults of the perpetrators. The authors' compelling explanation is "manipulation of attachment needs," following the legendary psychologist/psychiatrist/psychoanlyst of child development John Bowlby (1907-1990). Thus we come to understand how deliberate, persistent, grotesque, and agonizing perversions of childcare can create psyches almost unrecognizable as humankind. These afflicted and discredited victims are the very clients the therapist-authors have ventured to study, at high personal and professional risk.
Ellen Lacter's chapter on "Torture-Based Mind Control: Psychological Mechanisms and Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Overcoming Mind Control" stands out for her careful articulation of psychological mechanisms, such as, "unconscious implicit memory for trauma and fear conditioning." As I read her applications of the research literature on such esoteric topics as "amygdala-mediated emotional and sensimotor memories of terror," I think, so now we know the value of such research to humanists. Her section on "Making Programming Conscious" shows how knowledge, even in this hell domain, can facilitate therapeutic intervention.
The vivid autobiographical chapter by "Anonymous," herself a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control, seems to pose another question to the psychologist authors: how can the highly coordinated and ritualized perversions of the perpetrators be explained?
Jean Maria Arrigo, PhD
Ellen Lacter's chapter on "Torture-Based Mind Control: Psychological Mechanisms and Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Overcoming Mind Control" stands out for her careful articulation of psychological mechanisms, such as, "unconscious implicit memory for trauma and fear conditioning." As I read her applications of the research literature on such esoteric topics as "amygdala-mediated emotional and sensimotor memories of terror," I think, so now we know the value of such research to humanists. Her section on "Making Programming Conscious" shows how knowledge, even in this hell domain, can facilitate therapeutic intervention.
The vivid autobiographical chapter by "Anonymous," herself a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control, seems to pose another question to the psychologist authors: how can the highly coordinated and ritualized perversions of the perpetrators be explained?
Jean Maria Arrigo, PhD
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The World Will Know!
8 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
This book is a must-read for
. . . those who have been directly touched by the terror produced by ritual abuse and/or torture-based mind control: (1) survivors themselves, (2) their support persons and (3) professional helpers who work with survivors.
. . . those who have no knowledge (but an open mind) about ideologically motivated crimes that defy understanding committed against children
. . . those who deny the existence of ritual abuse and/or torture-based mind control programming because they say there is no evidence.
If, perchance, perpetrators of covert ritual abuse/mind control happen upon this book and do a quick read, they will soon discover that they've been "found out": that the secrets they programmed their child victims to forget are right there on the pages in front of them for the world to see; that as adults many of them have told.
The "If you tell you die" and other programs/threats did not work.
In their chapters, Anonymous ("a survivor of organized ritual abuse, torture, and mind control"), and therapists Orit Badouk Epstein, Ellen Lacter, Sue Richardson, Joseph Schwartz, Valerie Sinason, and Rachel Wingfield Schwartz show that ritual abuse/mind control is real and that healing from its aftereffects is indeed possible for those who have been victims of these crimes against humanity.
Wanda Karriker, Ph.D. (Author of Morning, Come Quickly)
. . . those who have been directly touched by the terror produced by ritual abuse and/or torture-based mind control: (1) survivors themselves, (2) their support persons and (3) professional helpers who work with survivors.
. . . those who have no knowledge (but an open mind) about ideologically motivated crimes that defy understanding committed against children
. . . those who deny the existence of ritual abuse and/or torture-based mind control programming because they say there is no evidence.
If, perchance, perpetrators of covert ritual abuse/mind control happen upon this book and do a quick read, they will soon discover that they've been "found out": that the secrets they programmed their child victims to forget are right there on the pages in front of them for the world to see; that as adults many of them have told.
The "If you tell you die" and other programs/threats did not work.
In their chapters, Anonymous ("a survivor of organized ritual abuse, torture, and mind control"), and therapists Orit Badouk Epstein, Ellen Lacter, Sue Richardson, Joseph Schwartz, Valerie Sinason, and Rachel Wingfield Schwartz show that ritual abuse/mind control is real and that healing from its aftereffects is indeed possible for those who have been victims of these crimes against humanity.
Wanda Karriker, Ph.D. (Author of Morning, Come Quickly)
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
