Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse (Paperback)

Alison Miller

ISBN 10: 1800132654 / ISBN 13: 9781800132658

Published by Karnac Books, 2024

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Paperback. This manual is a step-by-step guide for therapists working with survivors of complex mind control and ritual abuse, explaining how survivors were trained and how to help them recover and take control of their own lives. It is an invaluable resource for all mental health and social care professionals. This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have encountered a victim of complex mind control and ritual abuse, and most therapists feel deskilled in this work. Working with such clients is a challenge for therapists, given the extreme and prolonged nature of the clients' trauma, the severity of their dissociative disorders, the complexity of the mind control they have experienced, and the reality of organised perpetrator groups who follow up on their victims. Every therapist needs to know the basics of this work. AUTHOR: Alison Miller is a clinical psychologist recently retired from private practice in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She worked for many years in child and youth mental health services, helping children and families, and developing the LIFE Seminars parent education programs. Since 1991, Dr Miller has been treating and learning from persons who have experienced organized childhood abuse, in particular mind control and ritual abuse. She wrote Healing the Unimaginable to help therapists treating such survivors, and Becoming Yourself to assist survivors in their own healing process. This manual is a step-by-step guide for therapists working with survivors of complex mind control and ritual abuse, explaining how survivors were trained and how to help them recover and take control of their own lives. It is an invaluable resource for all mental health and social care professionals. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse (Paperback)
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800132654
• ISBN 13: 9781800132658
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have encountered a victim of complex mind control and ritual abuse, and most therapists feel deskilled in this work. Working with such clients is a challenge for therapists, given the extreme and prolonged nature of the clients’ trauma, the severity of their dissociative disorders, the complexity of the mind control they have experienced, and the reality of organised perpetrator groups who follow up on their victims. Every therapist needs to know the basics of this work. Chapter 1 defines and explains dissociation, ritual abuse, and mind control. It lists indicators which suggest a client may be a victim, and recommends developing ‘reflective belief (or possibly) disbelief’ rather than maintaining ‘therapeutic neutrality’. Chapter 2, The therapeutic relationship, describes victims’ training to not form bonds, the parental nature of the therapeutic bond with such clients, and practical ways to relate to someone dealing with internal multiplicity. Chapter 3, The life of a mind control survivor, describes victims’ planned experiences from infancy all the way through adulthood. Chapter 4, Engineered personality systems, describes the most common forms of training or programming, and the ‘jobs’ of inner parts of the victim. Chapter 5, Stabilisation and internal safety, explains the way in which some parts punish the victim for disloyalty by creating destabilising symptoms. Chapter 6, Working with the personality system, describes internal hierarchies and how to work with them. Chapter 7, Present-day physical safety, looks at the ongoing torture and harassment of many victims by perpetrator groups, and describes the training of various parts to return to the perpetrators, report to them, and be available for further abuse. Chapter 8, Working through the traumatic memories, gives guidelines regarding how to help a client work through the numerous traumatic training memories. Chapter 9, Confronting the spiritual issues in ritual abuse, describes the perpetrators’ spiritual/moral abuse and simulation of spiritual entities. It discusses the question of demonic possession, and looks at the real spiritual issues which victims and therapists must deal with. Chapter 10, Healing for our clients and ourselves, discusses victims’ emotional healing, grieving, developing self-esteem and integration, and therapists’ intimidation and vicarious traumatisation.

About the Author

Alison Miller is a retired clinical psychologist, who practised in Victoria, BC, Canada for over forty years, and specialised in work with survivors of ritual abuse and mind control for the last twenty-five years. She is the author of two previous books on that subject, and has contributed to various edited collections and journals.