Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists

Author(s) : Alison Miller

Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists

Book Details

Table of Contents

About the author
Preface
Introduction

1. Dissociation, ritual abuse and mind control
Dissociative splitting
Diagnoses
Ritual abuse and mind control
Recognising a survivor client
Remembering the abuse

2. The therapeutic relationship
The therapeutic bond: parental and infant love
How abusers try to prevent the therapeutic bond
Talking with someone who’s multiple
Developing the therapeutic relationship

3. The life of a mind control victim
Infancy
Childhood
Adulthood
The groups’ activities in the larger world

4. Engineered personality systems
Sections within the brain
Appearing normal: the front
Programs and jobs of parts

5. Stabilisation and internal safety
Programmed triggering
Internal hierarchies and leaders

6. Working with the personality system
Higher-ups
Stopping programmed symptoms
Building inner community

7. Present-day physical safety
Access programming
Monitoring of survivors

8. Working through the traumatic memories
Three phases of treatment
Planning memory work
Processing a memory
Troubleshooting

9. Confronting the spiritual issues in ritual abuse
Simulated religious scenarios
Spiritual/moral abuse: making victims believe they are evil
How does evil really work?
‘Possession’
Guilt, shame and forgiveness
Making meaning of the abuse experience

10. Healing for our clients and ourselves
Effects of the abuse on survivors
Healing tasks
Intimidation of therapists
Therapists’ vicarious traumatisation

References
Index

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