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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819481303321

Titolo

Ritual abuse and mind control : the manipulation of attachment needs / / edited by Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz, and Rachel Wingtield Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2011

ISBN

0-429-91870-4

0-429-90447-9

0-429-47970-0

1-283-07127-4

9786613071279

1-84940-881-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EpsteinOrit Badouk

SchwartzJoseph

SchwartzRachel Wingtield

Disciplina

153.853

291

Soggetti

Ritual abuse

Brainwashing

Attachment behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: What has changed in twenty years?; CHAPTER TWO: "An evil cradling"? Cult practices and the manipulation of attachment needs in ritual abuse; CHAPTER THREE: Torture-based mind control: psychological mechanisms and psychotherapeutic approaches to overcoming mind control; CHAPTER FOUR: Love is my religion; CHAPTER FIVE: Working with the Incredible Hulk; CHAPTER SIX: Maintaining agency: a therapist's journey

Sommario/riassunto

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.