Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
Lynette GouldMots clés guilt rape memories healing survivors trauma sexual-abuse survivor incest traumatic-experiences childhood-abuse
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness
Sharon SalzbergMots clés wisdom buddhism compassion healing
They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
Shannon L. AlderMots clés blessings christianity god prayer signs healing holy-ghost no-coincidence power-of-prayer prayer-line six-degrees-of-separation spiritual-blessings
Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that space, survivors gain the freedom to know and tell their stories. Even the most private and confidential disclosure of past abuses increases the likelihood of eventual public disclosure. And public disclosure is something that perpetrators are determined to prevent. As in the case of more overtly political crimes, perpetrators will fight tenaciously to ensure that their abuses remain unseen, unacknowledged, and consigned to oblivion.
The dialectic of trauma is playing itself out once again. It is worth remembering that this is not the first time in history that those who have listened closely to trauma survivors have been subject to challenge. Nor will it be the last. In the past few years, many clinicians have had to learn to deal with the same tactics of harassment and intimidation that grassroots advocates for women, children and other oppressed groups have long endured. We, the bystanders, have had to look within ourselves to find some small portion of the courage that victims of violence must muster every day.
Some attacks have been downright silly; many have been quite ugly. Though frightening, these attacks are an implicit tribute to the power of the healing relationship. They remind us that creating a protected space where survivors can speak their truth is an act of liberation. They remind us that bearing witness, even within the confines of that sanctuary, is an act of solidarity. They remind us also that moral neutrality in the conflict between victim and perpetrator is not an option. Like all other bystanders, therapists are sometimes forced to take sides. Those who stand with the victim will inevitably have to face the perpetrator's unmasked fury. For many of us, there can be no greater honor. p.246 - 247
Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. February, 1997
Mots clés fear power courage bravery honor healing victim survivors recovery psychotherapy therapy abuse-of-power victims survivor abuse survivorship attacks victimization abused-women victim-blaming trauma-survivors oppressed false-memory
…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members …most victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation” (Pg. 35-36)
Chrystine OksanaMots clés fear murder rape killing ritual torture healing indoctrination recovery terror humiliation dissociation cult abuse-of-power trauma victims ritual-abuse sexual-abuse abuse mind-control traumatic-experiences satanic-ritual-abuse psychological-abuse
The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security and defense.” p. 53 – 54
Cheryl HershaMots clés government-corruption healing dissociation sexual-abuse abuse multiplicity national-security dissociative-identity-disorder childhood-trauma childhood-abuse government-cover-ups mpd mk-ultra mkultra mutliple-personalities
Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate of hostility and are unable to talk about the work they do.
Yes, despite all the odds, survivors of ritual abuse are beginning to speak out about their experiences, and some people, mainly in voluntary organisations, are beginning to listen to them and support them.
[Published 2001]
Mots clés secret secrets rape torture healing survivors recovery child-abuse ritual-abuse voluntary false-memories mental-health-professionals survivorship childhood-abuse satanic-ritual-abuse abuse-sexual-abuse childabuse
Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in these groups can be abusers with both sexes involved in all aspects of the abuse. Children are often forced to abuse other children. Pornography and prostitution are sometimes part of the abuse as is the use of drugs, hypnotism and mind control. Some groups use complex rituals to terrify, silence and convince victims of the tremendous power of the abusers. the purpose is to gain and maintain power over the child in order to exploit. Some groups are so highly organised that they also have links internationally through trade in child-pornography, drugs and arms.
Some abusers organise themselves around a religion or faith and the teaching and training of the children within this faith, often takes the form of severe and sustained torture and abuse. Whether or not the adults within this type of group believe that what they are doing is, in some way 'right' is immaterial to the child on the receiving end of the 'teachings' and abuse.
Mots clés religion faith secret secrets rape exploitation crime torture healing survivors recovery dissociation child-abuse ritual-abuse voluntary mind-control dissociative-identity-disorder mental-health-professionals survivorship childhood-abuse satanic-ritual-abuse abuse-sexual-abuse childabuse child-pornography
In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:
break the will and personality of the person until they become as
nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they...
rebuild the person
Mots clés religion faith secret secrets rape exploitation crime torture healing survivors recovery dissociation child-abuse ritual-abuse voluntary mind-control dissociative-identity-disorder mental-health-professionals survivorship childhood-abuse satanic-ritual-abuse abuse-sexual-abuse childabuse child-pornography
Political prisoners describe:
- extreme physical and emotional torture
- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality
- sham killings
- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death
- being forced to witness abusive acts on others
- being forced to make impossible "choices"
- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment
- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks
- being forced to hurt others
Ritual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.
Mots clés truth tricks murder death religion faith psychology secret secrets rape killing exploitation crime torture healing prisoners political survivors recovery child-abuse ritual-abuse voluntary mind-control mental-health-professionals survivorship psychology-quotes childhood-abuse abusive satanic-ritual-abuse abuse-sexual-abuse childabuse child-pornography abusive-government political-prisoners
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