Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

202 Pages·2011·3.26 MB·English

CHAPTERTITLE I
RITUAL ABUSE AND
MIND CONTROL

RITUAL ABUSE AND
MIND CONTROL
The Manipulation of
Attachment Needs
Edited by
Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz,
and Rachel Wingfield Schwartz
The Bowlby Centre
Published in 2011 by
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Copyright © 2011 to Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz, and Rachel
Wingfield Schwartz for the edited collection, and the individual authors for
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTIONby Joseph Schwartz xiii
CHAPTER ONE
What has changed in twenty years? 1
Valerie Sinason
CHAPTER TWO
“An evil cradling”? Cult practices and the manipulation 39
of attachment needs in ritual abuse
Rachel Wingfield Schwartz
CHAPTER THREE
Torture-based mind control: psychological mechanisms 57
and psychotherapeutic approaches to overcoming
mind control
Ellen P. Lacter
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CHAPTER FOUR
Love is my religion 143
Anonymous
CHAPTER FIVE
Working with the Incredible Hulk 155
Orit Badouk Epstein
CHAPTER SIX
Maintaining agency: a therapist’s journey 169
Sue Richardson
INDEX 179
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks and appreciation to the Conference organizing group:
Natasha Roffe, Briony Mason, Elizabeth London, and Orit Badouk
Epstein, for the skill, passion, and generosity they brought to pro-
ducing this pioneering conference. It was a remarkable experience
to work in the context of so much warmth, courage, and solidarity,
never undermined by the traumatic nature of the material we were
working on together.
Avery special thank you needs to go to Valerie Sinason and the
Clinic for Dissociative Studies, who jointly hosted the conference.
Without Valerie, no psychotherapy conference on this subject
would ever have been held.
Many thanks to the Executive of The Bowlby Centre, who had
the integrity and political strength to back a conference on this issue
and to associate the Centre’s name publicly with the treatment of
ritual abuse survivors.
Our heartfelt thanks also go to Oliver Rathbone for his willing-
ness to publish a book which is not only ground-breaking, but also
controversial, and for his continuing commitment to giving a voice
to writers in the fields of attachment and trauma.
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viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Last, and most importantly, we would like to acknowledge the
survivors of ritual abuse and mind control who have refused to be
silenced and whose capacity to fight back in the face of extreme
torture teaches every one of us what we need to understand about
the human spirit—that love is stronger than hate. We dedicate this
book to them.
Rachel Wingfield Schwartz
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Anonymous is a survivor of organized ritual abuse, torture, and
mind control, and a writer, campaigner, international speaker, and
trainer specializing in psychosis and trauma.
Orit Badouk Epstein is an attachment-based psychoanalytic
psychotherapist and supervisor who trained at The Bowlby Centre,
London where she is a member of the executive committee. She
runs a private practice in North London and is one of the trustees
of the Paracelsus Trust at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. Orit
has an interest in, and experience of, working with clients who
have suffered from extensive trauma and abuse, including ritual
abuse, sexual abuse, violence, and emotional abuse. Orit has pub-
lished articles in the Attachment Journal and is on the editorial
board of the ESTD news letter. She is committed to campaigns to
counteract the denial and disbelief around Ritual Abuse. Email:
[email protected]
Ellen Lacter has been a clinical psychologist in California, USAfor
the past twenty-three years, and has specialized in the treatment of
dissociative disorders and ritual abuse and mind control trauma in
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