Email: Ellen Lacter has been a clinical psychologist in California, USA for the past twenty-three years, and has specialized in the treatment of dissociative disorders and ritual abuse and mind control trauma in both children and adults for the past twelve years. She is committed to campaigns to counteract the denial and disbelief around Ritual Abuse. Orit has published articles in the Attachment Journal and is on the editorial board of the ESTD news letter. 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. 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 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. Rachel Wingfield Schwartz 6 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. 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 5 to understand about the human spirit-that love is stronger than hate. Our heartfelt thanks also go to Oliver Rathbone for his willingness 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. 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. Without Valerie, no psychotherapy conference on this subject would ever have been held. A very special thank you needs to go to Valerie Sinason and the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, who jointly hosted the 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. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978 1 85575 839 1 Edited, designed and produced by The Studio Publishing Services Ltd e-mail: 3 Printed in Great Britain 4 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 producing this pioneering conference. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted with §§77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. Citation previewĢ Published in 2011 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2011 to Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz, and Rachel Wingfield Schwartz for the edited collection, and the individual authors for their contributions. CHAPTER SIX: Maintaining agency: a therapist's journey. CHAPTER FIVE: Working with the Incredible Hulk. CHAPTER THREE: Torture-based mind control: psychological mechanisms and psychotherapeutic approaches to overcoming mind control. CHAPTER TWO: “An evil cradling”? Cult practices and the manipulation of attachment needs in ritual abuse. CHAPTER ONE: What has changed in twenty years?.
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