Section headings

• Part One - the SRA Myth in England & Wales and RAINS
  
  
• Introduction
• The SRA Myth, MPD/DID and RMT
• Satanic Ritual Abuse indicators
• The SRA Myth arrives in England & Wales
• Broxtowe
• Pembroke
• The Shieldfield Scandal
• Scotland
• The importance of 'Michelle Remembers'
• Dr. Sandra Buck's history of RAINS
• RAINS consolidates
• RAINS & fundamentalism
• Rochdale
• Conflict with The Jet Report
• Mind Control - the SRA Myth takes a new turn
• • Dr. Corydon Hammond - the rise of the mind-controlled satanically-abused robot slave (and other ramblings)
  • Nazi mind-controlling NASA alien satanists
  • Dr. Colin Ross - psychiatry falls off a precipice
  • Psychiatry and Psychology in the US and the SRA Myth
  • The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Professor La Fontaine's Report
• The Evil, Satanic Poor - Part One
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  Part Two - A Chapter-By-chapter Analysis of Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse (Routledge, now Informa PLC, 1994)
  
  Go to Page Two for a detailed Contents listing of the sub-pages.
  
  
• The essay contributors - then & now
• An Analysis of Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Sub-Page 1
• An Analysis of Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Sub-Page 2
• An Analysis of Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Sub-Page 3
• An Analysis of Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Sub-Page 4
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  Part Three (this page) - The Nature & Extent of belief in the SRA Myth in Great Britain in the early 21st century
  
  
• Individual and Institutional members of RAINS
• Wolverhampton City PCT and RAINS
• The Metropolitan Police & RAINS
• The burden on RAINS members
• SRA Myth True Believers in the public eye - Dr. Valerie Sinason & David Icke
• The Western Middle Class White Woman's Burden - the racial aspect of Dissociation/MPD & Recovered Memory Therapy
• Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder - taking psychotherapy to a new academic low
• Dr. Ellen P. Lacter - American witch-hunter
• The Institutions of psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy/psychoanalysis & the SRA Myth
• psychotherapy/psychoanalysis
• The regulation of psychotherapy
• Psychiatry, Psychology and the SRA Myth
• Psychotherapy/psychoanalysis and its submission to David Icke
• The influence of David Icke and Valerie Sinason on child protection policy in Great Britain
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  Part Four - The influence of David Icke and Valerie Sinason on child protection policy in Great Britain (continued)
  
  
• The Department of Health and Dr. Sinason
• Trauma, disability, attachment and the promotion of the SRA Myth
• The Centre for Child Mental Health & the SRA Myth
• The Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability
• The 8th European Congress of Mental Health in Intellectual Disability
• The Paracelsus Trust
• Treating 'survivors'
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  Part Five - The influence of David Icke and Valerie Sinason on child protection policy in Great Britain (further continued)
  
  
• The London Safeguarding Children Conference and Valerie Sinason
• The Metropolitan Police and Valerie Sinason
• The Carol Felstead scandal
• The BBC and Valerie Sinason
• The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) and Dr. Valerie Sinason
• The SRA Myth and the destruction of John Bowlby's legacy
• Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Karnac Books, March 2011)
• Attachment Therapy
• Recovered memories, body memories and the pseudoscience of the future
• 'special pleading' - a Letter to The Guardian, January 23rd 2012
• End piece
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  Part Three - The Nature & Extent of belief in the SRA Myth in Great Britain in the early 21st century

  Page Three of this Entry investigates and discusses the state of continuing belief in the SRA Myth in Great Britain, with particular emphasis on public-funded bodies, psychotherapists/psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychiatrists.
  
  Note: This is a particularly lengthy Web page, having inherited sections that previously resided on Page Two, before that was dedicated to an Analysis of the book Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse
  
  

  Individual and Institutional members of RAINS

  RAINS membership is subject to a membership fee. The organisation is naturally unwilling to disclose their membership. It is not the role of this Index entry to publicly identify members, even when their identity is known to the editors.
  
  Dr. Buck provides an insight into how RAINS thrives in the 21st century;
  
  

  ...as of 2003 has supported more than 500 professionals and carers. These include clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, rape crisis and other helpline councillors, doctors (including GP's), police, probation and prison officers, clerics, psychiatrists, nurses, foster parents, carers and staff from the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). Members come from all over the UK, as well as Eire, Belgium, Sweden and Germany. Individual members link up with professionals around the world. In 2003 we still had nearly 200 active members.

  (Source: Pages 316 Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century, The RAINS Network in the UK by Sandra Buck M.D)
  
  Original co-founder, feminist/fundamentalist Judith (Dawson) Jones apparently left RAINS in 1993.
  
  What do RAINS members do?
  
  

  The membership has changed over the years and probably reflects organisational responses to what happened in Nottingham, Rochdale, The Orkneys and The Department of Health report by Jean La Fontaine. Social workers were the largest group to be represented in the early years, but only four have joined in the last four years...The largest groups of people joining now are counsellors, psychotherapists and Helpline counsellors. Individual members write letters to TV producers and newspapers, etc. Joan Coleman has been very active in this regard. As co-ordinator, most contacts come through her now, and she has taken most of the workload for the network to continue.

  (Source: Pages 320 Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century, The RAINS Network in the UK by Sandra Buck M.D)
  
  A membership of 200 indicates RAINS is far more than simply a loose collection of obsessed satanist and witchcraft hunters, pining for past times (the 1980's, not just the 17th century) and hoping that their message that a Vast Conspiracy of satanists inhabit the British Isles and other European nations will finally be believed by the media and political establishment. It can surmised that these satanists and witches are believed to be located within poor and socially disadvantaged communities (a focus of RAINS members attentions in the past) - killing and eating babies, and torturing children on a nightly basis, as well as practising complex Mind Control in their living rooms (presumably between episodes of EastEnders and Coronation Street).
  
  

  Wolverhampton City PCT and RAINS

  Not mentioned by Dr. Buck is that organisations can join RAINS. Once again, a list of these isn't published.
  
  One organisation that is definitely a member of RAINS, might strike many people as surprising - not least because it is a mystery why any organisation - in this case Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust for the NHS would actually tell the world it is a genuine, signed-up, subscription-paying member of an group whose place in contemporary British social history isn't very positive.
  
  
  
  It isn't clear why Wolverhampton City PCT, whose Chief Executive is Mr. Jon Crockett, and Chairman Jim Oatridge, OBE, would select RAINS as its chosen partner for its Sexual Abuse Service, when there are other, less 'damaged' organisations to be found that can offer a wider choice of services above and beyond Satanist-hunting. Coventry PCT for instance, also in the West Midlands of England partners with Conventry Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre. Although many Rape Crisis Centres are enthusiastic advocates for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth (see Lindsey Read), CRASAC isn't one of them. It seems unlikely that both the CEO or Chairman aren't aware of what is presented to the public on their Web site. Another mystery is of what use RAINS would be as a major partner to a Primary Care Trust; RAINS doesn't 'do' ritual abuse, as in 'ritualised abuse' - child sex abuse in a ritual setting - it only 'does' Satanic Ritual Abuse, as Dr. Buck has stated, and is repeated here again;
  
  

  We continue to use the term ' ritual abuse,' whilst recognising that sadistic torture and mind control is the reality. In the UK, the majority group we have identified can be described as Satanists (Sinason, 1994)

  (Source: Page 311 Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century, The RAINS Network in the UK by Sandra Buck M.D)
  
  If Wolverhampton City PCT required help with say women requiring rape counselling, children who are victims of sexual assault, incest or anything other than claiming they have been satanically abused, RAINS isn't going to be much use.
  
  One question might be; how many believers in Mind Control and a vast conspiracy of Satanists do staff and/or management at Wolverhampton City PCT are there? And how many believers in the SRA Myth are there amongst the secondary mental health teams within the city of Wolverhampton.?
  
  Another question might be, how many other NHS Primary Care Trusts are also signed-up with RAINS, if any? Or is Wolverhampton City PCT the only one, and it just happens to be a bit daft publicising the fact to the world?
  
  

  The Metropolitan Police and RAINS

  There is a (perhaps) reasonable suspicion that the Metropolitan Police in London, England, numbers amongst its staff members of RAINS, due to its enthusiasm for the SRA Myth. Valerie Sinason, the most enthusiastic campaigner in the UK advocating for the SRA Myth and the perceived threat of Mind Control, provided an insight into the degree of conviction that the 'Met has, in providing a direct line to her Clinic;
  
  

  Since 2000, the Clinic for Dissociative Studies has had a named Detective Inspector to call on.

  (Source: Where are We Now? Ritual Abuse, Dissociation, Police and the Media by Valerie Sinason, Graeme Galton and David Leevers, published in Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century (2008), paged Page 368)
  
  Graeme Galton, Dr. Sinason and her husband, Mr. Leevers paper continues throughout to enthuse about the passion with which the Metropolitan Police goes about its belief and support for the SRA Myth, though apparently the dedicated officers are stymied by senior management from providing 24x7 support. Valerie Sinason's connection with RAINS is such that it is rare for her to appear at an event promoting the 'Myth without RAINS involvement, and seeing as you can't 'join' her Clinic for Dissociative Studies, RAINS appears the only alternative if a sense of membership of a group is required. The advert for the 2001 RAINS conference, shown below, was printed in the The Police Federation Journal for May 2001.
  
  
  
  It seems unlikely though that the Metropolitan Police are fully paid-up subscribers of RAINS. More likely individual officers maintain their membership, though their subscription fees might not be paid as work expenses.
  
  Sinason, Galton and Leevers precede their paper with a quote from Colonel Korbus Jonkers, now retired former head of the South African Police Occult Unit, previously discussed at RAINS consolidates.
  
  

  "Now that my work has been successful over this period, they (detectives) are learning that you cannot find evidence for what you don't think exists. Untrained or sceptical police look past the evidence if it is about the occult. They want to prove the case but don't look deeper".

  (Source: Where are We Now? Ritual Abuse, Dissociation, Police and the Media by Valerie Sinason, Graeme Galton and David Leevers, published in Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century (2008), paged Page 363)
  
  It isn't quite certain why a quote from Jonkers, recognised almost universally as the 20th centuries leading witch-hunter, would be chosen for the title page of the essay. Dr. Sinason though did work with Colonel Jonkers (ret.) and has apparently returned to South Africa every year since 1994. An interview with Colonel Jonkers after his retirement reveals some of the elements that make his police work so attractive to Dr. Sinason and to 'Myth True Believers in the UK. The quote also provides an insight into the fermenting of the campaign, popular in many African states including Nigeria and South Africa, that children can be witches;
  
  

  Have you ever come into contact with someone that has been possessed? Yes, many times. It’s a reality. If you talk about black witchcraft as well, in the sangoma aspect you find it a lot. The way black witchcraft works seems impossible to believe, for example: I was called out by a black pastor in Kwazulu Natal and there was an eleven year-old girl that had been left for a few weeks in the presence of a sangoma who was supposed to bring good luck to her family. So eventually this girl became possessed and the parents said: “There is something wrong here,” so they took the child to a black pastor for help who in turn called me. I flew down, very upset about the situation. When the pastor was praying, apart from hearing many different voices coming from her throat, blood was squirting from her breasts and I thought, I don’t believe what I’m seeing now. So eventually, after he had prayed, he spoke to one of her multiple personalities and suddenly ants started running out of her breasts. Ants? Yes, ants. So that suddenly stopped. The pastor had a lot of other pastors and therapists there and they were watching all these events unfold. All of a sudden a small tortoise climbed out of the girl’s navel. A small tortoise! When they saw this happening they all ran off so that there were only three of us left in the room. Everyday people never see this kind of thing. If you told me this story I would say “don’t talk nonsense to me” because my thoughts are based on reality. If you see it for yourself it’s different. It was witchcraft and it is a reality; it does exist.

  (Source: Dr. Kobus Jonkers, God's Detective)
  
  Through Valerie Sinason, The Metropolitan Police retained Colonel Jonker's as a paid consultant in the famous 2002 Thames Torso killing scandal, enabling him to bring his distinct form of evidence collation, and his unique means of dealing with black people, to British shores.
  
  As mentioned, the African continent still suffers from the social nightmare of belief in witchcraft, even in the 21st century. Yet the SRA Myth years had shown the ease with which even Western societies are vulnerable to such obsessions;
  
  

  As of 2006, between 25,000 and 50,000 children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, had been accused of witchcraft and thrown out of their homes. In April 2008, Kinshasa Police arrested 14 suspected victims (of penis snatching) and sorcerers accused of using black magic or witchcraft to steal (make disappear) or shrink men's penises to extort cash for cure, amid a wave of panic which blew across the entire West African region. Arrests were made in an effort to avoid bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by mobs.

  (Source: Wikipedia entry for Witchcraft)
  
  South Africa was the training ground for Dr. Sinason and Detective and witch-hunter Kobus Jonkers her specific instructor. South Africa persecution of children branded as witches and wizards is as equally violent as that found in West African states;
  
  

  (Reuters) - Murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading around the world and destroying the lives of millions of people, experts said Wednesday. The experts - United Nations officials, civil society representatives from affected countries and non-government organisation (NGO) specialists working on the issue - urged government to acknowledge the extent of the persecution. "This is becoming an international problem - it is a form of persecution and violence that is spreading around the globe," Jeff Crisp of the U.N.'s refugee agency UNHCR told a seminar organised by human rights officials of the world body. Aides to U.N. special investigations on women's rights and on summary executions said killing and violence against alleged witch women - often elderly people - were becoming common events in countries ranging from SOuth Africa to India. And community workers from Nepal and Papua New Guinea told the seminar, on the fringes of a session of the U.N.'s 47-member Human Rights Council, that "witch-hunting" was now common, both in rural communities and larger population centres."

  (Source: Killing of women, child witches on rise, U.N. told, by Robert Evans, Reuters, Geneva, 23rd September 2009)
  
  A recent report provides some indication as to how the issue is growing, particularly in Africa. Children Accused of Witchcraft in Africa, An anthropological study of contemporary practices in Africa, prepared by Aleksandra Cimpric of UNICEF Dakar detailed the historic basis for the practice, and the influence of Christian Revivalist churches in Africa.
  
  It isn't certain how much encouragement to pursue alleged women and child witches has been provided by Western Christian fundamentalists, but certainly the British and American SRA Myth advocates, such as witch-hunter Dr. Ellen P. Lacter plus Dr. Sinason, a grateful student of witch-hunter Korbus Jonker, hasn't contributed positively to helping stamping-out the practice. The issue also causes some difficulty with Western feminists, once again particularly in the US and UK, notably because it draws attention to their collusion with fanatical religious fundamentalists in the witch-hunting craze of the late 1980s and 90s.
  
  It was reported on May 21, 2008 that in Kenya, a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft. Tanzania’s unwritten anti-witchcraft policy is strongest in the Meatu district where half of all murders are “witch-killings” and in 2008, following the murder of 25 albinos, President Kikwete publicly condemned witchdoctors for killing albinos for their body parts which are thought to bring good luck. We Nigerians are not saints either.
  
  Christian pastors in Nigeria have been involved in the torturing and killing of children accused of witchcraft. In Akwa Ibom and Cross River states for instance, about 15,000 children branded as witches ended up abandoned and abused on the streets. Over the past decade, over 1000 children have been murdered with some being publicly set on fire. Church pastors in an effort to compete favourably, establish their credentials by accusing children of witchcraft. When repeatedly asked to comment about the matter, most church pastors refused to comment.
  
  Elsewhere, in Gambia, about 1,000 people, according to Amnesty International, were accused of being witches. They were locked in detention centers in March 2009 and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion. Every year, hundreds of people in the Central African Republic are convicted of witchcraft. (Source: Nigerian witches: where are you? By Adepoju Paul Olusegun, Nigerian Village Square, April 18, 2010)
  
  Further discussion about the belief in the existence of witchcraft, and speculation that SRA Myth advocates do their best to give the impression that they would like to see a resumption of the Great European Witch-hunt of past centuries, can be found in the section Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Karnac Books, March 2011). A belief in a vast conspiracy of satanists and in particular witches and the existence of witches covens was prevalent in Valerie Sinason's 1994 book Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse and is discussed in Chasing Witches - An analysis of Chapters 16, 17, 28, 29 and 18.
  
  The Metropolitan Police perform a vital function in London, not least because it is both the home of the British government and an international city that hosts numerous events with leaders of world commerce and politics. Quite how MI5, the national security service in the UK, will make of the knowledge that the 'Met has an official relationship with an organisation that professes believe in the SRA Myth and Mind Control is open to speculation. Certainly it would make the recruitment of Special Branch officers from the London force a little problematic.
  
  The issue of the Metropolitan Police's strange fascination with Valerie Sinason and the Clinic for Dissociative Studies is further discussed in Part 4 of this index entry, The Metropolitan Police and Valerie Sinason
  
  The direct line to the Metropolitan Police, established in 2000, doesn't appear to have been used much. Where are We Now? Ritual Abuse, Dissociation, Police and the Media was written in 2007 or early 2008, and if the facility is still enabled, then a decade has passed, with the 'named Detective Inspector' (not a Detective Constable, or a Detective Sergeant, but an 'Inspector') having perhaps been waiting in vain for Dr. Sinason or a member of staff to ring with the address of a gathering of Satanists or a coven of witches.
  
  

  The burden on RAINS members

  Whilst the impact on the children who were taken forcibly from their homes is well documented, particularly for the Rochdale Langley Estate children, now grown up, with childhoods damaged or ruined by SRA Myth-obsessed social workers and police officers, what of the RAINS members themselves?
  
  What has been the burden they have had to carry, particularly for Dr. Buck herself.
  
  At the end of The RAINS Network in the UK she provides a brief insight into that burden;
  
  

  Confronting the atrocities that are reported by children, adolescents and adults changes your life. People find that colleagues at work do not want to know (Hopkins, 1989). They become secondarily traumatised from the accounts they hear, and then by the reactions of colleagues and 'superiors' (Dawson & Johnston, 1989). Personal relationships are strained (Youngson, 1994). We obviously need to find more creative ways for the intellectual considerations to be presented in a way people can understand. Putting your head on the block is not attractive when you already feel severely traumatised from the work. Support systems to help workers were in place in Nottingham, but the management silenced the staff. The full story about what happened in Nottingham has still not been heard.

  (Source: Pages 323 Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century, The RAINS Network in the UK by Sandra Buck M.D)
  
  Dr. Bucks closing paragraph is though, way too brief. There must be more of an impact on herself and her RAINS colleagues.
  
  Readers of this Entry may or may not agree with the assertion that if an individual, say yourself, was given knowledge or convincing information that Satanic Ritual Abuse actually existed, involving the seemingly routine killing and eating of babies and other examples of intense human and perhaps spiritual evil, then it would be impossible for that individual to simply work as a 'counsellor' of survivors of such activities, perhaps just run a Web site advocating for its existence, even edit a book, submit articles or attend conferences. Indeed a primary concern it could be suggested, would be for such an individual, now furnished with such terrible knowledge, to persevere to prevent it from ever occurring again, and their mental health would be impacted both by the knowledge they had gained, but also by the passionate knowledge that the knowledge, by implication, forced them to do absolutely anything to prevent murders and baby-eating, even at the expense of lawful behaviour. Leaving it to the police or other authorities would be insufficient an excuse, particularly as some SRA Myth advocates believe that police officers and social workers have Satanists amongst them (see the Index Entry for Lindsey Read).
  
  So is it outrageous to say that such an individual, in possession of knowledge that had now become a terrible burden to them, would dedicate their remaining life to eradicating the satanists? Every single waking minute would be dedicated to the cause of finding the satanists, and if necessary, taking action outside the bounds of the law to deal with the baby-killer-eaters.
  
  At this point, if you, the Visitor, can't envisage being in that state of mind with such knowledge, then the remainder of this Entry won't be of much interest.
  
  Dr. Buck and other True Believers in the SRA Myth in the UK, such as Bea Campbell (OBE), Judith (Dawson) Jones, Dr. Sara Scott, Sarah Nelson, Dr. Liz Kelly, Joan Coleman and the hundreds of current or former members of RAINS, together with thousands of christian fundamentalist believers have never got around yet to telling, what we have to assume, to have been absolutely millions of person-hours that they have surely dedicated in searching British cities and towns and its rural countryside every single day and night, in the hunt for the satanic ritual abusers, for the last 22 years. Indeed millions of pounds must have been spent by them on surveillance equipment.
  
  Yet, in not a single one of any of the accounts given by an SRA Myth advocate has any hint of such an impact on lifestyles been made, suggested or even vaguely detailed. A discussion about the seeking lack of interest in purchasing and using retail surveillance equipment to prove Satanic Ritual Abuse can be found at Retail therapy? Trying hard not to find evidence of ritual abuse) that details the ease with which professional retail surveillance equipment can be purchased by members of the public. True Believers haven't quite got around to, even anonymously on foreign Web sites, to publishing the names and photographs of the satanists arriving or leaving their gatherings, even perhaps Purlitzer Prize-winning pictures of them engaging in their murderous practises. Nor has any True Believer organisation in the last 22 years in the UK, or even longer in the US got around to offering a substantial reward to the supply of convincing evidence of Satanic Ritual Abuse (surely 'satanists' - particularly those on Britain's deprived council estates couldn't turn down an offer of a few hundred thousand pounds?)
  
  Although perhaps disingenuous, it seems that the people who most believe in the SRA Myth are the very same people who are the least capable of doing anything about challenging it if there was any validity to it. Indeed they show every indication of not wanting to risk stumbling over convincing evidence of it, should it somehow be available.
  
  An insight into the nature of the resources employed by seeming anti-satanic social workers was revealed in a posting from a mother on the SAFF web site in 2010;
  
  

  Our 2 children are home schooled and some kind christian person has reported them to social services for not receiving a suitable education (we use the Steiner method) When they found out we are pagan they set out to either get them in school or put them in care. The social worker lied through her teeth she said we had 6 black cats, we have 1 snow spot Bengal. She looked in one cupboard out of 11 double and said there was little food she declined to look in the two chest freezers (in hindsight she may have worried we would push her in) the school they are determined to get them in is Roman Catholic and as such they would have to be baptised They have stopped us moving near a suitable school IE non denominational by saying we will disappear in a net-work of non Christians and Satan worshipers and the children are at risk of neglect, abuse, and maybe worse. If anyone has any ideas or advice please get in touch. Thank you.

  (Source: Re: School and Social Services UK - SAFF forum posting - 1st September 2010)
  
  Sheila C. Youngson, who had attended the 1996 Better The Devil You Know RAINS conference, was then a Counsellor in Counselling and Therapy Service at Normanton and District Hospital, Castleford West Yorkshire. She contributed Chapter 34 - Ritual Abuse: The personal and professional cost for workers to Valerie Sinason's Treating the Survivors of Satanic Abuse. It was reprinted online in 2006 in one of the few academic journals that still sports enthusiasm for the SRA Myth - Child Abuse Review, whose Associate Editors and Editorial Board include employees of the NSPCC, a representatives from the Metropolitan Police, Great Ormond Street Hospital and, up until only recently Dr. Liz Kelly - all noted for continuing belief in the SRA Myth, together with a number of academics from English and foreign universities. The paper, presumably peer-reviewed by the Child Abuse Review review committee identified negative changes in behaviour and in physical and emotional health amongst workers. Support and supervision requirements are also addressed, as is the possibility/probability of threat and intimidation.. The paper though didn't detail that if SRA Myth advocates are genuine, then they are unlikely to live in decent housing; probably having double or treble-mortgaged to the hilt to fund their endless hunt against satanists in their free time. Certainly Dr. Buck is unlikely to enjoy the normal trappings of being a paediatrician - no comfortable home to call her own, no decent car, no foreign holidays. Being a True Believer in the SRA Myth means Believing in the concept that humans are capable of acts that dwarf even the atrocities of Rwanda and the killing fields of Pol Pot's Cambodia. Every penny, every waking hour at work will have (it has to be assumed) been spent satan-hunting.
  
  Sheila C. Youngson is now Senior Associate Lecturer and Deputy Clinical Director, Clinical Psychology Training Programme at the University of Leeds in North England, one of the few academic institutions in England with a reputation for continuing believe in the fundamentalist-inspired 'Myth. Surprisingly, despite her obvious belief in the 'Myth, she neglects to mention it on her cv, although it seems unlikely that any True Believer who believed that children were being routinely murdered and babies being eaten on an almost daily basis, would be able to simply put the issue on the 'back burner' in their mind. Her paper Ritual abuse: Consequences for professionals is also the best known and long-lived of her work, and a crucial part of contemporary British history.
  
  
  
  Neither Sheila Youngson or Dr. Buck refer to the incredible stress imposed upon 'ritual abuse workers' in their daily duties. Using the criteria published by fundamentalist Dr. Catherine Gould, and employed by RAINS members during the 'crazy' years, it must be galling for practitioners like Dr. Buck and her fellow True Believers to be presented with a child, presumably from a socially deprived family, who might to them show signs of having been satanically abused; perhaps by a lack of interest in going to Church, or having a fear of doctors, or having a learning disorder. In the past it would have been possible to call a likewise-minded social worker, perhaps even a RAINS-member police officer, and thus accuse the family of being satanists, have them arrested in the early hours one morning after having their front door stoved-in...have their children removed from their beds, screaming, still sleepy, by armed policemen.
  
  Now though in the twenty-first century, such a response is, even in an NHS Trust in Nottingham, somewhat difficult to organise. For SRA Myth practitioners and believers it appears help to solve this impasse came in the form of the MSBP (Munchausens Syndrome By Proxy) vehicle, that happened to come to the fore in the English and Welsh child protection system, just as the SRA Myth ran out-of-steam. MSBP's relationship with the use of Witchcraft allegations is discussed at length in the Index entries for Sir Roy Meadow and Bruno Bettelheim. In addition Nick Land, a Clinical Director of Learning Disability Services and Forensic Services at Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust and a member of the Christian Medical Fellowship, has explained how it is possible to diagnose demonic possession in an NHS patient (he reckons it is over-diagnosed).
  
  Dr. Valerie Sinason, discussed in some detail in later text on these pages, extends the SRA Myth to incorporate the paranoid delusions that the West's security services, notably the CIA and MI5, incorporate satanic practices in their operations; sexually abusing and torturing children in satanic rituals to create dissociative mind-controlled agents (the dissociation doesn't appear to kick-in whilst they are children, and the victims have to wait until adulthood before any impact is ascertained). In her 'vanity' interview, conducted by colleague Graeme Galton, himself a leading SRA Myth advocate, she avoids discussing her fantasies about MI5 and the CIA, but does provide some impact on how being an SRA Myth enthusiast has had on her life;
  
  

  GG: On that point, I'd be very interested to know what sort of personal impact this work has had on you. VS: It's been huge. Family and friends might tragically even be able to document it better than me, in that it changed my life. We can often talk about, and truthfully, about learning from the patient and how understanding something profound, from privileged access to another, changes us. But this is on a totally different level. I'd say it tested every friendship, every relationship, in different ways along this 12-year period. I would say, initially, there was the issue of how people dealt with my secondary traumatisation, where I could not think, speak, anything else in any moment of private time. So everybody close to me will have suffered from not having the me that they knew. I could not have done this work with young children. Then there was the fear it brought to those close to me that their lives could be in danger, before we understood properly how these mafias operated, where the patient's terror that everyone they cared about would be hurt, which they had been brought up to believe, made them feel any therapist they went to, and any family of that therapist, and any friends of that therapist, would be hurt. Whilst we could do our best to contain the fear of the patient in the session - and look, I'm using the dissociative `we' instead of `I' at this moment - I could feel, am I doing something that's going to bring danger to those close to me? There were people who could not bear it and we stopped seeing each other. There would be parties where I would just nab somebody, talking about this subject, not realising I was in a traumatised state. And, I'd say for one year after the first English case, I was looking under the car expecting a car bomb, I was expecting the phone to be tapped, I was treating every call to any friend as if someone was listening, which was affecting how I communicated. I was torn over any conference I was in that was publicised, did that mean abusers were going to be there? Would that threaten patients I saw? It was endless. It took a year before I thought there was an ordinary world which existed as well as this. Then there was a period of getting to grips with the subject, researching it, feeling I had a grasp of the basic themes that were repeated in different ways in everyone.

  (Source: Valerie Sinason Talks to Graeme Galton)
  
  Strangely the huge multi-generational international satanist conspiracy that Dr. Sinason writes of (see discussed extensively in Part 4 of this Entry) shows little inclination to extend a paw to swipe her or her colleagues away. Indeed, the Vast Conspiracy has never blown-up, kidnapped, threatened, murdered, or even got around to turning Dr. Sinason, Dr. Galton or any of her cohorts (including the telephonist or receptionist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies) into a crazed, mind-controlled robot assassin. There is no doubt a complex, cunning reason for this that SRA Myth advocates can proffer for this, over-and-above the obvious one that the Vast Conspiracy is no more than a delusion.
  
  An as-yet-unreported perspective, but perhaps worthy of research and an academic paper, would be to investigate the stress that is imposed upon non-believer NHS staff who work with True Believers in the SRA Myth, particularly those with children. For instance an NHS worker with a moody teenager who didn't fancy going to Church and reads Harry Potter books would potentially be at risk of being labelled a satanist or victim of satanists or witches if they took their child or baby into their work premises to be examined by a True Believer colleague. This situation becomes even more exaggerated when the subject of the 'Mind Control' version of the SRA Myth comes into play, which is discussed later.
  
  Eventually the members of RAINS, and the other SRA Myth believers will surely publish some insight into the extraordinary personal impact that their exclusive knowledge has burdened them with; the broken relationships, the cancelled vacations, the huge debts incurred buying equipment and petrol for their cars whilst searching...the constant lack of sleep, the endless psychological damage incurred by the knowledge that somewhere, satanists are no doubt eating all the babies they can. Colleagues and peers of Dr. Buck herself must have wondered why over the last few decades, she has looked totally shattered, utterly worn-out from the endless hours searching, constantly searching the county of Nottinghamshire and beyond; its numerous council estates and rural wilds - searching for a trace of the satanists...perhaps a licensed shotgun in the back of her car, just in case she has to intervene straight away to prevent a baby being murdered and/or eaten. Of course, no such insight will appear; the enthusiasm with which True Believers profess their commitment to the SRA Myth is only matched by their distinct unwillingness to ever go look for any evidence of its existence.
  
  The personal burden on the advocates for the SRA Myth does not compare well with that of pioneering social worker Margaret Humphreys CBE who exposed the forced emigration of ten-of-thousands of English and Welsh children to Commonwealth countries in a campaign whose intensity led caused her health to suffer badly as well as her marriage. Dr. Sinason and the other True Believers appear to have had a far easier ride through the intervening decades.
  
  In the Internet Age, the public want and demand photographs, videos, digital recordings, material suitable for CNN transmissions. In an effort to address the glaring shortcomings in evidence - over the course of over twenty years no one across the world has photographed a satanic cult even parking their cars up for a monthly meeting, let alone uncovered mass graves full of the remains of those sacrificed. The advocates have had to tack on an increasingly number of even more ridiculous claims to the Ritual Abuse moral panic. At present these are Multiple Personality Disorder, Mind Control and Recovered Memory Therapy. The latest 'add-on' is that the multi-generational CIA-funded satanic cults practising Ritual Abuse are actually a front for 12-foot tall alien lizards that control mankind, though this version of the SRA Myth is restricted in the main to the a new generation of conspiracy theorists, led by David Icke
  
  In Great Britain, promoting the SRA Myth to a skeptical modern public has proved difficulty, not least because of the problems mentioned above. Additionally it is a struggle to persuade potential believers that the CIA are casting their satanic net beyond American shores. Recovered Memory Therapy, Multiple Personality Disorder and Mind Control managed to be imported into the beliefs of British SRA Myth True Believers, which remains, as during the original SRA Myth period in the UK - from 1988 (Broxtowe) to 2003 (The Island of Lewis) to be a minority of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, paediatricians, police officers and judiciary.
  
  Belief in the SRA Myth has proven remarkably resilient to the ravages of time. Although the heyday of the 'Myth was the period 1988-1994 in England and Wales, plus a brief return to the 'crazy' times with the Scottish Island of Lewis fiasco in 2003, advocates for the 'Myth can still be found. Amongst the psychotherapy profession in Great Britain, finding a True Believer who doesn't believe in the SRA Myth is particularly difficult. Amongst the psychiatry and psychology professions, 'Myth believers are not so commonly found, but are still numerous enough to make at least a sizeable minority of the professions' memberships in the UK.
  
  As Dr. Buck herself has noted, membership of RAINS amongst social workers has declined over the years, and the emphasis has changed to Belief being embedded amongst psychiatrists, psychotherapists and general therapists. In England and Wales, belief in the 'Myth is constrained principally by one major element; in twenty-three years its proponents have been unable to find a single verifiable trace of physical or forensic evidence for its existence. Not a single individual has been jailed after a finding of guilt in a criminal court for offences involving genuine involvement in satanic rituals in the UK - although the Pembroke scandal with its evidence chock-full of magical and fantastical allegations that defied the rules of physics and known reality, comes closest (and is also a case that SRA Myth advocates are not the least inclined to quote). The use of satanic imagery and paraphernalia, such as with Colin Batley in South Wales certainly counts as sexual abuse with satanic overtones - though without the use of torture, cannibalism, sacrifice or even mock sacrifice that are staple parts of what most people imagine to be satanic ritual abuse elements, however imaginary. Professor Jean La Fontaine detailed the existence of such paedophile activities in her report to the British government in 1994 (see Professor La Fontaine's Report).
  
  In the intervening time since the 'crazy years' of the 1990s, some narrowing in the nature of believers in the US and UK has taken place. The US version of the 'Myth was originally hugely public-led, driven by concerned parents who, due to the nature and preponderance of evangelical christian belief, were perhaps more vulnerable to the idea that satan himself was stalking the land. In the US version, although there were many academics and professionals at the time who were firm believers in the 'Myth, its profile was more in keeping with a societal spasm or 'moral panic'. Belief in the 'Myth in both countries is now centred amongst particular professions. Social work is notably absent from the list of professions still impacted by the 'Myth. Although there are constant references to British child protection social workers who are convinced in the presence of a huge Satanic conspiracy, or that many women, notably mothers, are witches, the numbers concerned and obsessed with such beliefs is believed to be relatively low, and located only in Local Authorities where Directors of Children's Services are influenced by religious fundamentalists beliefs, or allow belief in the 'Myth or the vision of women as witches to persist.
  
  Belief in the 'Myth outside the US and UK is relatively unknown. Only in Australia and New Zealand can True Believers still be generally found - thanks in part to the considerable investment by religious fundamentalists and feminists in exporting the 'Myth there in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  
  In recent years Sweden has seen a shift towards belief in satanic ritual abuse, though this has been driven by a desire by Swedish feminists to label males as being demonic/satanic. Once again collusion with religious fundamentalists is in full swing. Sweden's particular issues are addressed in the entry for Angela Wileman.
  
  As mentioned earlier, the English, Welsh and Scottish versions of the 'Myth in the late 1980s and '90s were less public-panic driven than its US counterpart, and instead depended on a core of evangelical christian fundamentalists, feminists (notably Beatrix Campbell (OBE) and a minority cross-section of the child protection social worker, police officer, psychiatrist and paediatric professionals. In addition there were a small number of politicians, newspaper editors, journalists, and judiciary who contributed to its establishment. These Believers incorporated a wide cross-section of personal beliefs, from extreme religious fundamentalist passion, to radical feminism, atheism, secularism and some points in between. A feature running throughout was that Believing individuals were able to temporarily abandon previous stances and adopt convictions in the existence of the fantastical and magical.
  
  Continued advocacy in the 'Myth in Great Britain has now coalesced into a number of active organisations, plus a number of public bodies who include members who have incorporated the 'Myth, either into their own working philosophy, or on occasions into the organisations they work for. These notably include;
  
  
  • The Department of Health
  • Wolverhampton City NHS PCT
  • The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) - though only the central management of the Corporation, most notably that of Radio 4
  • The Metropolitan Police
  • The Guardian Media Group (newspapers)
  • The SNP (Scottish National Party)
  • The Scottish Labour Party
  
  
  In addition a small publishing industry, producing SRA Myth advocacy texts is present in the UK, and roughly equates in size to that found in the US. Religious publishing, from fundamentalist groups also produce a large number of individually-small volume printings, and on occasions the larger publishers, notably of psychotherapy and psychiatry textbooks will 'crossover' to cover religious themes.
  
  

  SRA Myth True Believers in the public eye - Dr. Valerie Sinason & David Icke

  Faces or voices of those who advocate for the 'Myth and who might be even vaguely recognised by the British public are rare beasts. Bea Campbell (OBE) will easily win any competition on the subject, having been the chief promoter of the 'Myth in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, trumping even the best efforts of vocal religious fundamentalists at the time. The 'Myth years probably sealed her place in British contemporary history, dwarfing any other supposed feminist work or social commentary.
  
  Whilst this Entry discusses the work of Great Britain's two leading proponents for the 'Myth - namely Dr. Valerie Sinason and David Icke, neither have been able to match the enthusiasm with which Beatrix Campbell OBE pursued her obsessions; melding the British Left and extreme far-right religious fundamentalists together in a fashion that created an indelible mark on so-called political 'progressives', that is still visible today.
  
  Nonetheless, beyond just vague references to other SRA Myth advocates, such as the US psychiatrist Roland Summit, Ms. Campbell OBE makes no public statements about her involvement in the 'Myth scandals, and to date no journalist, particularly from the BBC, has been willing to ask any of the perhaps obvious questions. An interview, or even an autobiography from Ms. Campbell OBE would be a huge contribution to British contemporary history, providing an insight into how the British left submitted to the passions of fundamentalism, to the point that even Marxism Today in 1991 became a mouthpiece for the Christian Right in the UK (see Martin Jacques).
  
  In her absence we are left with the two faces most easily identified with continuing belief in the 'Myth; psychotherapist/psychoanalyst Dr. Valerie Sinason and conspiracy theorist David Icke. In recent years the views of Dr. Sinason and David Icke have overlapped, and there is little discernible 'clear blue water' between either.
  
  David Icke, former soccer goalkeeper, television sports presenter and UK Green Party spokesman is perhaps the leading conspiracy theorist to be found in the world today. Although this the Dramatis site rarely employs quotes from Wikipedia, this entry provides a concise summary of his beliefs, espoused in numerous books and countless public presentations and seminars.
  
  

  Icke's basic argument is that humanity was created, and is controlled, by a network of secret societies run by a race of interbreeding bloodlines originating in the Middle and Near East in the ancient world. Icke calls them the "Babylonian Brotherhood." The Illuminati, Round Table, Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the IMF, United Nations, the media, military, science, religion, and the Internet are all Brotherhood created and controlled. The Brotherhood is mostly male. Their children are raised from an early age to understand the mission; those who don't are pushed aside. Key Brotherhood bloodlines are the British House of Windsor, the Rothschild's, the Rockefeller's, European royalty and aristocracy, and the Eastern establishment families of the United States. The origin of the bloodlines is extra-terrestrial. At the apex of the Brotherhood stands the "Global Elite," the same group identified throughout history as the "Illuminati"; at the top of the Global Elite stand the "Prison Wardens." The goal of the Brotherhood—their "Great Work of Ages," or the "Brotherhood Agenda"—is world domination and a micro-chipped population.

  (Source: Wikipedia entry for David Icke)
  
  What isn't emphasised in the summary is that the key part of Icke's beliefs; the extra-terrestrials that ultimately rule mankind are supposed to be 12' shape-shifting reptiles capable of taking-on human form. That human form apparently can be many of the worlds key leaders and celebrities, and indeed many of Ickes supporters spend endless hours determining who in the world of politics and entertainment is actually a shape-shifting 12' reptile. Current convention amongst the conspiracy-theory brigade is that Britney Spears and Lady GagGa are almost certainly mind-controlled Illuminati-leading individuals, and possibly shape-shifting reptiles to boot. Worse is to befall anyone unfortunate to be born Sagitarian (and American, and female, and regularly seen on television) especially of course, Hanna Montana;
  
  

  Britney Spears Christina Aguilera Nicki Minaj Anna Nicole Smith Nelly Furtado Miley Cyrus Hopefully Taylor Swift will be okay…

  (Source: Origins and Techniques of Monarch Mind Control - posting in the Comments section, Secret Arcana web site)
  
  Wrapped-up into the miasma that is David Icke's world is a distinct and absolute belief in the SRA Myth, typified by his seminar, entitled Satanic Child Abuse Mind Control (14 YouTube videos);
  
  
  
  The opportunities afforded by having the 'lizard' conspiracy theory and the SRA Myth merge into one, doesn't appear to escaped Mr. Icke, who unwittingly provides a pointer as to how easy it is for ideas in the media and those found on the Internet (including his own) to become incorporated in the 'survivor' world of those who claim to have lived through satanic ritual abuse;
  
  

  And I got a call from a lady in America who is the head of Parents Against Ritual Abuse. And I was talking to her, again, not about shape-shifting reptilians, but about the ritual abuse of children in America, and she said during this conversation, "Do you know, about 12 of my clients have actually reported that, during the rituals, they've seen the participants turn into reptiles." And, she said, "I've always taken it to be that they're dressing up to confuse them."

  (Source: The Biggest Secret - An Interview With David Icke - 1999)
  
  Although easily dismissed as being the from the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' brand of conspiracy theorist, many elements of Mr. Ickes belief system - Mind Control, DID/MPD, Satanic Ritual Abuse are key features of RAINS, as described by Dr. Sandra Buck on the first page of this Index entry.
  
  Such beliefs also appear to correlate with the core beliefs of Valerie Sinason, the other leading SRA Myth advocate in the UK. This section will include an examination of both David Icke and Valerie Sinason's beliefs, using their written published work.
  
  Dr. Valerie Sinason is a psychotherapist, poet and author. She has written nearly a dozen books on various subjects, including poetry collections. She is a founder and Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, established in 1998, in London, England. The CDS isn't the only center of psychotherapy belief in the SRA Myth in the UK, The Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CAPP), The Traumatic Stress Service at the Maudsley Hospital and the Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma in Norwich maintain careers for professionals convinced of a belief in the SRA Myth. All of the institutions except the CDS recognise Dissociation as a general clinical term for numerous conditions, whilst the CDS will only recognise Dissociation as being caused solely by ritual abuse. Associates of the CDS are enthusiastic True Believers in the SRA Myth, and practise a form of pseudoscience characterised as such;
  
  

  "There are gnomes in my garden that always make themselves invisible when anyone tries to observe them."

  (Source: Definition of pseudoscience, from Introduction: false assumption of modern astronomy)
  
  The primary Associates of the CDS are notable in both their conviction in the existence of satanic ritual abuse, but also their belief in a worldwide conspiracy, enacted by the 'Illuminati' and/or the CIA or MI5, to generate an army of mind-controlled robot humans through the application of satanic ritual sex abuse of children and adults. This is supposedly performed with the deliberate aim of provoking the creation of multiple personalities through the process of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in its most extreme form - that being the creation of multiple 'alters' or multiple identities. Most of these theories originate from extreme right-wing religious fundamentalists in the US, tracing their history back to the mid-1990s when the SRA Myth began to take-on increasingly absurd 'baggage'. None of these theories are particularly new and all of them have been imported from US sources.
  
  Although an enthusiastic SRA Myth advocate, Dr. Sinason missed being a significant character during the initial 'moral panic' that took place in the UK between 1988 and 1994, much of which was based on the perception that satanists and witches were rife across the land, sexually abusing, killing and eating babies and children.
  
  Dr. Sinason's initial contribution to the SRA Myth was in the form of her book Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse (1994) published by leading SRA Myth publisher - Routledge. The book, as mentioned on the first page of this entry (see Conflict with The Jet Report), holds the distinction of having been voted by 150 of her peers as the second worst psychiatry publication of the last Millennium. It was beaten into second place only by;
  
  1. Ralph Rossen: Acute arrest of cerebral circulation in man, 1943. Here, "scientists" stopped the blood flow to the brain in 100 prisoners and 11 chronic schizophrenics by pressing the carotid artery in their necks, reporting the not surprising discovery that "no significant improvement in the psychiatric status of the schizophrenia patients was noted after repeated and relatively prolonged periods of arrest of cerebral circulation."
  (Source: The Ten Worst Publications in the History of Psychiatry)
  
  
  
  See the extensive analysis of this book at Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Routledge/Informa PLC, 1994.
  
  Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse was contributed-to by many of the leading lights of the SRA Myth at the time. The volume is published by British publisher Routledge, sold first to Taylor & Francis Group, and now merged with Informa PLC. Routledge, now a division of Taylor & Francis, continues to publish Dr. Sinason's work with enthusiasm, publishing a second edition of her Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2nd Edition on November 26th 2010.
  
  
  
  A new book, the similarly-titled Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity was originally scheduled for July 2011, but appeared late in 2011. It continued Informa PLC's (the owner of Routledge) distinction, led by Chairman and CEO Peter Rigby (not to be confused with Peter Rigby, the British entrepreneur and head of SCC) to be the leading non-religious British publisher supporting the SRA Myth. Bizarrely, Attachment, Trauma & Multiplicity gets an online review on the Routledge web site, from none other than leading SRA Myth advocate and 'shit-house-rat' theory promoter - one Dr. Colin A. Ross, suggesting that belief in the SRA Myth is deeply embedded at the publisher;
  
  

  "This new edition of Attachment, Trauma & Multiplicity captures the state of the art in Great Britain. It is a most welcome addition to the dissociative disorders field". - Colin A. Ross, M.D., President, The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Richardson, Texas, USA.

  (Source: Colin A. Ross review for Attachment, Trauma & Multiplicity).
  
  A review from Dr. Ross, even a positive one, is not necessarily something to be sought-after. As well as allegations of abuse against some of his patients (see Dr. Colin Ross - psychiatry falls off a precipice), Dr. Ross is willing to provide negative insights into the nature of the psychotherapists who promote dissociation (see End piece).
  
  Dr. Ross does tend to express opposing opinions on any subject concerning the SRA Myth, and a congratulatory statement in one publication can often see a condemnation from him in another.
  A belief that military and security organisation employ trauma-based satanic ritual abuse of children, to turn them into dissociated mind-controlled robot slaves, dominates Dr. Sinason's most recent work. Bizarrely, Routledge, as mentioned, now, as mentioned a specialist division of Taylor & Francis, itself owned by Informa PLC, publishes in the military, security and strategic studies spheres, as well as psychiatry and psychotherapy. This has led a situation whereby Routledge's specialist professional military and security purchasers of its books are being collectively and routinely accused to include child abusing, mind-control-imposing satanists; determined repeatedly in writing by an author of the same publishing house - a situation perhaps unique in the world of publishing.
  
  Dr. Sinason claims to have been a witness in cases that would appear to employ the English and Welsh family courts;
  
  

  She specialises in disability, trauma and abuse and is regularly used as an expert in court cases.

  (Source: flyer for Sexual Abuse Agencies - Fife)
  
  It isn't clear if Dr. Sinason also operates in the Scotland, where Belief in the SRA Myth is at its most predominant in all of Europe, though not quite as extensive as the belief in evil witches practised by the Rumanian government.
  
  Core to Dr. Sinason's belief in a huge, secret, organised ritual abuse organisation worldwide, is the concept that adults, notably white English-speaking middle-class women, will fragment into numerous multiple personalities, as a result of severe trauma inflicted through torture and sexual abuse, and that the ritual abuse was and is being inflicted deliberately to cause the victims' minds to fragment.
  
  Dissociation though is a wide subject, ranging from the day-dreamy state of adolescent boys, the stunned disconnection from the world caused by surviving a terrorist bomb attack, to the rare full-blown phenomena that is multiple-personality disorder (currently known as DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder). The principle problems with the MPD mechanism is that it is routinely diagnosed as being schizophrenia (there are over 250,000 schizophrenics diagnosed in the UK alone). Another primary problem with the theory that MPD is caused by childhood trauma (notably ritual abuse) is that psychiatrists and psychotherapists simply don't see children with MPD (this is discussed at length in The SRA Myth, MPD/DID and RMT). That problem is substantial; for the most part DID/MPD is diagnosed only after extensive therapy from a psychotherapist. A minority of patients exhibit the symptoms beforehand, though invariably only after engaging in substantial research on their own part. Finding 'multiplicity' or multiple personalities amongst children, even adolescents isn't just rare, it is incredibly rare, though in theory the Nazi's "Final Solution", Pol Pot's Cambodia, and the Rwanda genocide and Bosnia conflicts alone should have produced tens of thousands of deeply dissociated children amongst the traumatised and abused young survivors, including those with multiple personality disorder symptoms.
  
  Dr. Sinason together with other SRA Myth advocates has determined that it is virtually impossible to have DID without a ritual abuse element involved, thus differentiating herself and a few similarly-minded peers from the rest of her psychotherapist profession, including those recognised as leading authorities on the subject of DID.
  
  

  Internationally, the largest amount of DID is diagnosed in connection with disclosures of ritual abuse (Becker, Karriker and Overkamp 2008; Sachs and Galton 2008; Sarson and McDonald 2009), hence the discrediting of or inability to perceive the possibility of the one existing automatically precludes rational thinking about the other.

  (Source: Introduction Page 12, Attachment, trauma & multiplicity, second edition, edited by Valerie Sinason - 2011 by Routledge - sample chapter)
  
  This poses a crucial, though previously unpublicised problem for Dr. Sinason's publisher, Routledge; she declines to acknowledge the work of their other published (and somewhat more respected) peers, who publish through the same publishing company, and who certainly have no interest in acknowledging her. There is the additional problem of dealing with DID sufferers and their advocate groups who believe that DID can be caused by other factors other than ritual abuse, and object to the constant association with 'shit-house-rat-crazy' conspiracy theories that Dr. Sinason and her cohorts evangelise about.
  
  It is useful to look closely at the references Valerie Sinason provides, as SRA Myth advocates invariably reference other material in the hope that it makes their work look a little more 'academic'; Becker, Karriker and Overkamp 2008 refers to the Extreme Abuse Survey performed by DID/SRA Myth advocates with 'survivors' and their therapists worldwide.
  
  
  
  

  Of 1000 EAS respondents who replied to the item: "Secret government-sponsered mind control experiments were performed on me as a child", 257 (26%) said "Yes," and 219 of those 257 remembered seeing perpetrators wearing white doctors' coats. Of 451 respondents to the Professional Extreme Abuse Survey, seventy-one professional helpers from at least six countries reported work with survivors reporting government mind control experimentation"

  (Source: Torture-based mind control: psychological mechanisms and psychotherapeutic approaches to overcoming mind control by Ellen P. Lacter, extract from Page 65 of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs - edited by Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz and Rachel Wingfield Schwartz, Karnac Books, March 2011)
  
  Over 170 of the respondents claimed to have been trained as a mind-controlled government assassin through satanic abuse performed by government agencies. That the EAS would be used by Valerie Sinason as 'valid' research is one thing. That it appeared in a Routledge/Informa PLC 'academic' book purporting to be a valid source is another.
  
  The EAS is regularly referred-to by SRA Myth/DID advocates as an authoritative source of material. These pages too reference its sometimes hilarious findings and assertions.
  
  The profession of psychotherapy is normally perceived by lay people to be split between those who tend towards Freudian concepts, and those who don't. In reality though there is a second, more subtle division; between those who believe utterly in a huge world-wide conspiracy of satanists, practising ritual abuse on children, and those who regard it as bunkum; the ultimate in pseudoscience concepts.
  
  Dr. Sinason's conviction that there is a world-wide conspiracy of MI5 and CIA officers who are satanists and practising ritual abuse on children (intended to cause fragmentation of their personalities) leaves behind the 'Classic' version of the SRA Myth that was given a distinct Britishness slant in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, with its visions of ghosts and flying witches. This is superseded by the distinct American-derived 'Mind Control' version.
  
  Much of the theory for the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' derivative can be ascertained from psychologist Corydon Hammond's speech to his peers in 1992 - The Greenbaum Speech - Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse discussed on the first page of this Entry. In 1992, a number of psychologists like Dr. Hammond confirmed the worst fears of many in the profession; that the paranoias and fears of many patients had taken hold amongst practitioners themselves. Psychiatry and psychotherapy too suffered the same indignities, leaving many in the respective disciplines aghast at how easily the 'loony' element had taken control.
  
  Translating the ideas of leading psychologist Corydon Hammond to suit a British scenario is tough - principally because although in the US, paranoid conspiracy theories about the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) have been rife within the Right and Left for decades, such claims have made little headway in the UK. When asked why satanists would be spending so much effort on perfecting Mind Control, Dr. Hammond answered straight-forwardly;
  
  

  People say, "What's the purpose of it?" My best guess is that the purpose of it is that they want an army of Manchurian Candidates, ten of thousands of mental robots who will do prostitution, do child pornography, smuggle drugs, engage in international arms smuggling, do snuff films, all sorts of very lucrative things and do their bidding and eventually the megalomaniacs at the top believe they'll create a Satanic Order that will rule the world.

  (Source: The Greenbaum Speech - Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse, speech by Dr. Corydon Hammond)
  
  In her essay From Social Conditioning to Mind Control contributed to what purports to be a serious psychotherapy volume - Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder, edited by SRA Myth True Believers Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, Dr. Valerie Sinason promotes her views to the full, and in doing so, reaches the same level of conspiracy paranoia that David Icke professes.
  
  In the following extracts, Dr. Sinason emphasises her idolising of first Dr. Hammond, leading SRA Myth/alien abduction/CIA conspiracy theorist Dr. Colin Ross, and finally David Icke;
  
  

  Mengele's scientific experiments at Auschwitz, and others at Dachau, allowed brainwashing experiments to be attempted that involved the use of drugs as well as electric shocks, other torture, and criminally created DID. Mengele was also known as "Dr Green". The psychologist Corydon Hammond (1992) has risked major discreditation - but has also received gratitude-for speaking about these issues. Here do we put the testimony of survivors, such as Lieutenant Romola, who testify to a Dr Green, a Nazi? Operation BLUEBIRD was approved by CIA director Allen Dulles in 1950 and renamed Operation ARTICHOKE IN 1951. Research by Colin Ross (2006) shows that the creation of dissociative identities was fully endorsed. As well as being potential couriers and spies, the subjects could function, in effect, as the human equivalent of a tape recorder, a computer, or camera and be amnesic for the entire episode. The memorised material could then be retrieved by a programmer using a previously implanted code or signal.

  (Source: From Social Conditioning to Mind Control, page 174, an essay contributed by Valerie Sinason to Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr, published by Karnac Books)
  
  Dissociation as a creative defence against relational trauma is appalling enough to consider, thinking of a overwhelmed small child dealing with impossible burdens. However, to consider the deliberate creation of a fragmented mind enters another sphere of intentionality, with links stretching back to Auschwitz and then back further to earliest history.
  
  Indeed David Icke (2002), who deals with a variety of both verified and unverified mind-control issues, focuses on Mengele's realisation that torture and making someone watch torture could shatter "a person's mind into a honeycomb of self-contained compartments or amnesic barriers" (p. 282). Colin Ross (2006), in his rigorously researched study of CIA papers, shows that the Manchurian Candidate is fact and not fiction, and he describes the experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new identities, hypnotic access codes, and new memories in the minds of experimental subjects. How can we hope for police investigations when it is an actual government-sponsored agency that has committed the crime? What are the links to British equivalent crimes? Indeed some of the survivors who showed evidence of mind-control procedures lived on or near military bases. (Source: From Social Conditioning to Mind Control, page 179, an essay contributed by Valerie Sinason to Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr, published by Karnac Books)
  
  In the above extracts, Dr. Sinason manages to 'press all the buttons' that entitle her to the exclusive 'shit-house-rat-crazy' conspiracy club; Corydon D. Hammond, David Icke and Colin A. Ross. The "Lieutenant Romola" referenced earlier in Dr. Sinason's academic paper, details a scene, horribly reminiscent of one from cheesy British 1980s B-grade horror movie Lifeforce. Dr. Sinason recounts her apparent encounter with one these mind-controlled military robots, who had somehow managed to break his programming enough to tell a UK community doctor. Apparently having flown to England to kill someone, he had forgotten who it was, and had thus got himself checked-in to a mental institution. With fellow SRA Myth True Believer Dr. Hale, she attended as an independent observer, in a moment that can only be described a 'cinematographic', with the patient providing his own special effects.
  
  

  As we entered the single room off the main ward, Lieutenant Romola (not his real name) raised himself wearily on the bed. The senior registrar introduced us and then left us. Romola was a muscular man with olive skin and shock of dark hair and terrified eyes with large dark circles round them. He looked as if he had not slept for ays. He stared at my colleague, Dr. Margot. She did not move or blink under the intensity of his scan. "You know, don't you," he said with a strong clear American accent. "Something," she said. "Where have got to?" He waved at the hospital side room deprecatingly. "This is where I go telling the truth. In England. Not Russia, not America. England." "Yep. That's how it is," said Dr margot. "I need the delta de-activated, or I am a vegetable here for life." "Know who it's aimed at?" "No." "No wonder you needed help. You're a life-saver," Dr Margot replied. "Thank you." I was as surprised by Dr Margot's language as by the man's and had no idea what they were talking about. "How did you find out about the delta?" His face suddenly changed, and a metallic robotic sound came from his mouth. "This is Level 33. You should not be here. Unauthorised personnel. Everyone on this level will be wiped out in ten seconds if you do not give the correct password." I looked in terror at Dr. Margot, who remained calm. Romola's heart rate was speeding up, and his face was turning blue. "I need Level 33 password now. i order you," barked margot, suddenly, like a colonel. A shy, low voice came out of Romola's mouth and provided the password, a number, and margot repeated it with great authority. Romola relaxed, and the blue color started moving from his face. Another sound came from his lips, which sounded like lift doors closing and opening. This procedure continued with a stop at different "levels" until we reached the ground. Suddenly another sound came from Romola's mouth. This sounded like the voice on a telephone-answering machine. The voice gave out telephone numbers, which Dr. Margot wrote down. Then came a man's voice, which I had not heard before. There was no affect in the expression of the voice. Then everything went silent again. Romola's face changed dramatically. A new beatific expression came over him. He looked at us and said, "Thank you for coming. I can take over from here. You may watch. I have deleted the name. That man is now safe. He will not be killed." There was silence. "What a beautiful garden," he said, "everything is green here." Suddenly the smile left his face. "You, here. I should have known it was you, Dr. Green. I do not have to obey you any more." His face shut down, blank like a computer screen. After what felt like an eternity, but was probably ten or fifteen minutes, Romola stretched his arms and legs and sat up. He looked at us, stunned. "I feel like a new man," he said. "What happened?" He looked at Dr. Margot and her pad with the phone numbers. "You did it. You have taken it out."

  (Source: From Social Conditioning to Mind Control, pages 168,169,170, an essay contributed by Valerie Sinason to Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr)
  
  Dr. Rob Hale or Dr.'Margot' haven't as yet got around to publishing their accounts of what rightly seems to a significant event for Dr. Valerie Sinason, and one certainly worthy of further investigation, perhaps by a decent journalist. Regrettably Dr. Sinason didn't appear to think of that at the time, and hasn't done so since.
  
  Whilst Dr. Sinason references David Icke, the compliment is paid the other way. In the quote below, David Icke adds his comments to a Daily Mail report published at the time when Dr. Sinason and colleague Dr. Hale's report for the British Department of Health had been submitted (though it was never subsequently released to the public, having been determined to be garbage). Dr. Sinason might have objected to being referred-to as "Miss Sinason" by David Icke;
  
  

  The London Daily Mail newspaper has reported that Britain's police headquarters, Scotland Yard, is investigating Satanism in the UK and the evidence presented to them completely validates the claims made in The Biggest Secret about the ritual sacrifice networks. The scale is much greater than portrayed here, but it's a start in the massive task of lifting the veil and exploding the collective human mind out of it's lethargy and denial. My comments below are in brackets. David Icke Daily Mail, Thursday, February 10, 2000. Claims that babies may have been sacrificed by devil worshippers are being investigated by Scotland Yard, it emerged yesterday. Detectives are probing allegations of murder and cannibalism following research into Satanic abuse funded by the Department of Health. The report, due out in the Spring, is expected to include claims that babies are conceived specifically for the purpose of being tortured and killed. (The women, often kept in captivity, to give birth to these babies are known by Satanists as "breeders" as explained in The Biggest Secret) Their births are not registered which, it is alleged, makes it difficult for police to trace the culprits. The disturbing allegations are bound to reopen the debate on whether ritual abuse exists in Britain. (In fact, Britain is the global centre of the Satanic ritual network run by the reptilian bloodlines). The claims come from leading psychotherapist, Valerie Sinason, who conducted research for the report. She told Radio Four's Today programme: "I am completely convinced that there is a small amount of organised and ritual abuse in this country which, I think, has a definitely Satanist belief in it or is used by pedophiles to make their rituals more terrifying." (In truth, I repeat, the scale of this is fantastic and goes right to the "top" of the British establishment - the British Royal Family.) Miss Sinason has interviewed 76 children and adults who claim to have witnessed appalling crimes at Satanist ceremonies. She claims to have evidence that babies were born specifically for ritual abuse, as well as photographs of ritual sites, mutilated animal remains and victims' injuries. One 27-year-old victim, identified only as Teresa, told the Today programme: "There are children who are born for the purpose of sacrifice and they would be kept until that time came." Police sources confirmed that a nationwide probe had begun and that officers were looking into claims that babies may have been sacrificed. Acting Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll, who is in charge of the Scotland Yard Inquiry, said: "We are taking the research extremely seriously.." (We shall see about that in due course. These Satanic networks include so many leading figures in government, police, and the legal profession, including judges, that so many such "inquiries", even when conducted by genuine police officers, end up being squashed. We will keep you posted on the outcome of this one.)

  (Source: David Icke News Room - LONDON POLICE INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF BABIES "BORN FOR SACRIFICE")
  
  

  The Western Middle Class White Woman's Burden - the racial aspect of Dissociation/MPD & Recovered Memory Therapy

  The multiple personality disorder-believing faction amongst those who profess a fascination with the SRA Myth pose a difficult problem for professionals who trade in the DID 'industry'. That Dissociation exists is in little doubt - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is increasingly recognised as a devastating side-effect to victims of trauma; most notably feelings of detachment from reality, or from the self, are often recognised by dedicated professionals. 'Dissociation' or the study of dissociation isn't the source of any difficulty; tacking-on DID, or MPD with its ritual abuse 'baggage' is.
  
  The idea though that severe trauma - most notably ritual abuse - performed by (invariably quoted) satanists or witches, or the CIA, or MI5 (satanists or otherwise) or inter-generational satanic families (acting through the CIA/MI5 etc. or otherwise) to deliberately create victims with fragmented personalities, unfortunately doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
  
  If satanists or 'generic' ritual abusers were able to create MPD 'alters' through the application of sexual and physical abuse in ritual abuse, then for sure we would see numerous children, both now and observed in the past, who exhibited such behaviour, even if the diagnosis wasn't realised there and then, but was interpreted later - such as how we can now identify great figures in science and literature who saw the world through 'different eyes' who we can now claim were probably autistic. As it is there is no such trace of MPD amongst children, now or in the past. Dr. August Piper was quoted on the first page of this section, and is repeated here;
  
  

  The logic of the claim that childhood trauma causes MPD demonstrates a final serious flaw. If the claim were true, the abuse of millions of children over the years should have caused many cases of MPD. A case in point: children who endured unspeakable maltreatment in the ghettoes, boxcars, and concentration camps of Nazi Germany. However, no evidence exists that any developed MPD (Bower 1994; Des Pres 1976; Eitinger 1980; Krystal 1991; Sofsky 1997) or that any dissociated or repressed their traumatic memories (Eisen 1988; Wagenaar and Groeneweg 1990). Similarly, the same results hold in studies of children who saw a parent murdered (Eth and Pynoos 1994; Malmquist 1986); studies of kidnapped children (Terr 1979; Terr 1983); studies of children known to have been abused (Gold et al. 1994); and in several other investigations (Chodoff 1963; Pynoos and Nader 1989; Strom et al. 1962). Victims neither repressed the traumatic events, forgot about them, nor developed MPD.

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  In 1988, Vincent and Pickering noted that in the published reviews of the literature, exactly one case presenting in childhood was reported in the 135 years prior to 1979. After reviewing the literature published since 1979, they were able to gather a mere twelve cases. (It seems, however, that Vincent and Pickering had to stretch a bit to find even those — four of the twelve were examples not of MPD, but rather of something the authors called “incipient MPD.”) Nine additional cases were found by Peterson (1990). These minuscule numbers, standing in stark contrast to the thousands of adult cases discovered in recent years, reveal the third weakness: if MPD results from child abuse, then why have so few cases been discovered in children?

  (Source: Multiple Personality Disorder: Witchcraft Survives in the Twentieth Century by August Piper Jnr. The Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 22.3, May / June 1998)
  
  This core issue remains at the heart of the MPD diagnosis. It would be impossible to say 'debate' because no such debate exists; enthusiasts for DID/MPD invariably reply to such difficult questions by simply accusing the skeptic of being a satanist for even raising such queries. Yet the core issue remains; believers in DID (and Recovered memory Therapy) believe that severe trauma, notably sexual abuse incurred in satanic ritual abuse causes amnesia (memory loss) and on occasions, the creation of other personalities.
  
  The concept of amnesia after severe trauma isn't that new; a theme of memory loss after accident or injury can be found amongst the episodes of 1960s and 70s TV dramas, such as The Saint or UFO. But the idea though that girls, particularly white girls, from middle-class families, are able, by design or through some as yet unrecognised ability, to totally forget abuse until far later in life, is unique - a creation that is entirely due to the influence of Dr. Lawrence Pazders Michelle Remembers (see The importance of 'Michelle Remembers') whilst 'Multiple Personality Disorder' can trace its history back to the end of the 19th century, and in the 20th century, to the book Sybil and its subsequent movie adaptations (though the story of Sybil is now accepted by many to be a fraud).
  
  Where though are the MPD children? MPD/DID enthusiasts like Dr. Valerie Sinason appear able to find MPD patients, often after many years of therapy. Dr. Sinason is also of the opinion that child 'multiples' exist, but they weren't asked the right questions as children to disclose their multiplicity (though she declines to point to any research indicating this). Dr. Colin Ross, as detailed in the End piece to these entries, confirms that the DID patients he sees are often victims of their own (psycho)therapists;
  
  

  DID cases with significant iatrogenic elements are seen on a regular basis in our Dissociative Disorders Program. Iatrogenic DID is a fulfilment of the therapist's needs and expectations, and is caused by the therapist's cueing, leading questions, suggestions, and reinforcement of iatrogenic symptoms. Not uncommonly, the therapy described meets criteria for a destructive psychotherapy cult (Singer, 1995).

  (Source: Oxford textbook of psychopathology - 1999, edited by Theodore Millon, Paul H. Blaney, Roger D. Davis, page 477, Dissociative Disorders by Dr. Colin A. Ross, published by the Oxford University Press)
  
  New York columnist Joan Acocella" chronicled the nature of psychotherapists obsession with unearthing multiple personalities, in Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (1999). In the lengthy passage below, Elizabeth Carlson's story of how she was led into the crazed world of multiple personalities, by her therapist, Dr. Diane Humenansky, is compellingly told, though Dr. Humenansky refused to talk to Ms. Acocella;
  
  

  According to Carlson, Humenansky also used a method called guided imagery, in which the patient is talked through an imaginary scene in order to awaken buried memories. In one scenario Humenansky told Carlson to picture herself going downstairs. Look for an altar, Humenansky said. Carlson saw a stone slab. Look around for candles and daggers, Humenansky said, Carlson saw them. Now look for the baby, Humenansky said. Carlson does not remember at what point her own imagination, primed by the books and videos, took over, but soon she saw a pregnant woman, and then the baby was born, and then the afterbirth was sitting on the altar, and people in hooded robes were eating it, and so was she. (That was the first of many cannibalism scenes Carlson recovered with Dr. Humenansky. Today, she still has nightmares about them.) The therapy sessions often ended with Carlson weeping uncontrollably. Carlson says Humenansky would give her tranquillisers and tell her to chew them, so that they would take effect faster. At the same time that Carlson, under Humenansky's guidance, was recalling the abuse that caused her personality to split, the two of them were also "mapping the system" -- that is, identifying the different personalities. Ever since Sybil it had been accepted that any moderately elaborated MP system was likely to include child alters. Carlson obligingly dug up hers. One was Little Miss Fluff, a nickname that she had been given as a girl because she liked frilly dresses and crinolines. Another was Suzarina: that had been her imaginary playmate when she was a child, and it was decided that the playmate must have been an early alter. To fill the Eve-Black slot, Carlson came up with Wild Child, a teenage tramp, and Nikita, a more mature temptress. Sybil had had two male alters; so, quite soon, did Carlson. She also located two nuns, Sister Mary Margaret and Sister Mary Theresa (the latter wanted to join the Peace Corps), and a scared, depressed old lady called the Old Lady. Some of these alters were discovered through "journaling," a technique recommended by MPD experts. Carlson was told to keep a journal; then, going over it, Humenansky picked out recurrent thoughts and identified them as alters, or as traces of abuse memories. When Carlson's mood changed -- indeed, when she changed her hair or clothing style -- Humenansky told her she had "switched," or changed alters. If she showed up for her session in a short skirt, that meant Nikita was "out." If she was depressed, that was the Old Lady taking over. With each new personality they unearthed, Carlson was asked to supply the name, but if she drew a blank, Humenansky did the naming. In the middle of the treatment, according to Carlson, Humenansky went to the ISSMP&D conference in Chicago and returned with the news that MPs also tended to have lesbian, animal, and devil personalities. Carlson thereupon produced something that growled and that they figured was either an animal or a devil. She also came up with a lesbian alter. Humenansky urged her to get in touch with this side of herself, so Carlson went to a strip club with a lesbian friend, got drunk, and tried, with little success, to have sex with her. Interestingly, though -- and this seems to be the case with a number of MPs who have not yet written memoirs -- Carlson never quite got the hang of multiplicity. To this day, she doesn't know how many personalities she had. "After twenty-five, I lost count," she says. Humenansky had Carlson write down their names, ages, and key memories on index cards for reference. Still, Carlson says, "I couldn't keep the damn things straight." Once, she lost the card file, and they had to do the whole thing all over again. There were times when she would walk into Humenansky's office and say that she didn't want to recover memories or explore alters that day. She just needed to talk. She recalls: Dr. Humenansky said, "Well, who am I talking to?" And I would say, "This is just me." She said, "No, I want to know which alter I'm talking to." "It's not an alter," I said. "It's just me." Finally she got out an index card and wrote down, "Just Me." Later, Carlson says, Humenansky put her under sodium Amytal ("truth serum") and asked her, "OK, who's the 'Just Me' person?"

  (Source: Pages 8,9 and 10 Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (1999) by Joan Acocella)
  
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  Concerns that therapists have been the primary cause of incidents of multiple personality aren't new in history. The explosion in MPD/DID diagnosis of white middle-class women in the US during the 1990s was of extraordinary proportions, but others had seen the risks to women from therapists long before, through a process already mentioned in the Dr. Colin A. Ross extract above, known as Iatrogenesis (inadvertent adverse effects or complications caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice).
  
  

  The literature on secondary or multiple personalities also contains debates on these issues. In one of his first publications of clinical observations made with hypnotic alters, Pierre Janet (1887, p. 472) commented on the possibility of artefacts. That is, he warned therapists about the danger of suggesting to the subject phenomena observed in previous sessions. Janet also realised that once he had named a personality the personality became more life-like (Janet, 1889, p.318). In addition, he argued that one of his subjects ' (Leonie) previous hypnotic experiences with other hypnotists account- ed for some of the dissociative behaviour he originally observed (Janet, 1919/1925, Vol. 1, pp. 188-190). William James (1890) suggested that: " It is very easy in the ordinary hypnotic subject to suggest. during trance the appearance of a secondary personage... One has ... to be on one's guard in this matter against confounding naturally double persons and persons who are simply temporarily endowed with the belief that they must play the part of being double." Later authors writing about MPD presented similar ideas. In an analysis of the Doris Fischer case, T. W. Mitchell (1921) argued that the therapist and the patient may have been in a hypnotic rapport. This could have led to "consciously or unconsciously given" suggestions to the patient. Brown (1926) considered the possibility that MPI) may he the result of artefacts induced by the " hypnotic methods of investigation and treatment employed by their observers ", and Harriman (1943) questioned to what extent were such cases "due to the interpretations which have been assigned to automatic behaviour or to rules indirectly suggested to these subjects ...."

  (Source: Page 36, 37 Iatrogenesis and Dissociation: A Historical Note by Carlos S. Alvarado, Al.S., NI. A, published in the journal Dissociation, Vol. IV, No.1, March 1991).
  
  There is unfortunately another perspective to take over MPD/DID. Why is it the diagnosis only applies to (predominantly) white middle-aged women in the Western world?
  
  The International Criminal Court, UN War Crimes Tribunal, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or indeed no other war crimes or genocide tribunal currently sitting or held in the past has ever heard of any testimony regarding the creation of multiple personality disorders amongst any women or children victims of atrocities.
  
  And the atrocities are often beyond comprehension. In particular the use of rape as a 'weapon-of-war' has been established in use in the past, and continues in use even in modern times, notably in Africa. Systematic rape of women was also employed in Bosnia. An estimated 200,000 women were raped during the battle for Bangladeshi independence in 1971. The Japanese Army raped thousands of women (and often children) during the 1937 occupation of Nanking.
  
  And not just rape. Amnesty International has reported the use of rape and torture outside the Western world on an epidemic scale;
  
  

  In Colombia, rival groups rape, mutilate and kill women and girls in order to impose "punitive codes of conduct on entire towns and villages", so strengthening their control ... International courts have tackled some cases in Bosnia, where Muslim women were forced into sexual slavery in the town of Foca in the 1990s, and in Rwanda, but the vast majority of perpetrators act with impunity. Representatives of the 200,000 "comfort women" forcibly drafted into military sexual slavery by Japan from 1928 until the end of World War II are still fighting for restitution. Far from colluding, women from Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and East Timor were "severely coerced" into prostitution, says Ms Sahgal. And whether a woman is raped at gunpoint or trafficked into sexual slavery by an occupying force, the sexual abuse will shape not just her own but her community's future for years to come. "Survivors face emotional torment, psychological damage, physical injuries, disease, social ostracism and many other consequences that can devastate their lives," says Amnesty. "Women's lives and their bodies have been the unacknowledged casualties of war for too long."

  (Source: How did rape become a weapon of war? BBC website)
  
  For women outside the Western world, notably non-white women, it seems they do not possess the means to have their minds fragment into multiple personalities, deliberately or otherwise, to 'protect' them against the knowledge of the horrors they have undergone. MPD/DID enthusiasts like Dr. Valerie Sinason stress that MPD can be both deliberately caused (such as by the CIA/MI5) or as a consequence of severe physical or sexual abuse by ritual abusers, together with the means to utterly forget the abuse (though forgetting about a violent encounter and a violent predator goes against all of the survival instincts that mammals, including humans, normally possess). Yet finding a victim of ritual abuse with physical injuries is like finding hen's teeth; such people aren't reported, even by SRA Myth advocates. Often 'victims' of SRA are found to be virgins, or show no signs of having been pregnant.
  
  Yet a child victim of an African civil war who has been raped will have severe physical injuries they will retain for life. For instance, as mentioned earlier, the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo sees rape employed on a mass scale.
  
  Lisa F. Jackson, the director of the documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2008) was able to witness the impact on the lives of such victims - notably their inability to forget - and certainly not to fragment into Multiple Personalities.
  
  

  It could have been meeting the four-year-old, raped by a man in her village, whose eyes, like Immakilee's, seem to have widened permanently. Or encountering the woman who stands up at a gathering, and gives, as Jackson says "the most unbelievable monologue I've ever heard" about women being raped, and forced to miscarry, and to "drink the blood from [their] wombs". In the decade-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an estimated 5.4m people have died, and 200,000 women have been raped. "In the little village that I went to," says Jackson, "they would appear at my door, lining up before breakfast, wanting to talk. Sometimes I would videotape them when there was no light; I couldn't even get an image. And still they would be waiting in line."

  (Source: The victims' witness, by Kira Cochrane. The Guardian, Friday 9 May 2008)
  
  Thus it appears that if the views of SRA Myth advocates are to be believed, only white Western women have the facility to fragment into multiple personalities, in the face of alleged gross sexual and physical abuse, or are able to forget entirely about the alleged experiences until they reach middle-age. For the rest-of-the-worlds women, this facility is denied to them - they must endure their suffering without the ability to fragment, or 'conveniently' repress their memories of such events. The editors have found one report of the impact the rape of DRC women and girls can have on the victims, and this report simply included 'MPD' amongst a lengthy checklist of symptoms. Regrettably no NGO (Non-government-organisation) or investigator has quite got around to finding any examples of such amongst the tens of thousands of violently-abused victims.
  
  The snag with this theory - of being able to simply forget abuse and trauma - is that it goes against both scientific study and what we know throughout history. The problem isn't that victims of abuse forget what was done to them, but rather, they can't stop remembering. It seems though that in the late 20th century, Western white middle-class women, particularly in the US, were being told they had an ability never before possessed by human females of the past, ever.
  
  

  Numerous studies in children (Terr, 1983; Malmquist, 1986; Pynoos & Nader, 1989) and adults (Leopold & Dillon, 1963) have shown that psychologically traumatic events are vividly though not always accurately recalled and are frequently followed by intrusive recollections in one form or another. The problem following most forms of trauma is an inability to forget, rather than a complete expulsion from awareness, and amnesia for violent events is rare.

  (Source: Sydney Brandon, M.D. and others, Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse: implications for clinical practice published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, April 1998, page 300)
  
  Is DID though an exclusively Western obsession? In the Western world, particularly in the US, the testing regime of MDI: Multi-Scale Dissociation Inventory, QED: Questionnaire on Experiences of Dissociation, SCID-D-R: Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders–Revised and the other dozen-or-so possible tests that can be applied appear to be geared to the very demographic population that report DID/MPD;
  
  

  These tests need to be administered by a PhD level Psychologist or other Mental Health Provider (regulations differ from state to state in the US). This is because considerable skill is needed for accurate interpretation of the results. The further removed in culture the person taking the test is from a white, middle class American, the more care is required to interpret the results and the less reliable it is likely to be. Greater accuracy is believed to occur if a professional asks the questions, rather than it being reduced to a pen and paper test. The more tests that are used, the more likely it is that the final result is valid. The tester also needs to be comfortable with the fact that Christians believe it is not unusual to contact angels, demons and God. Otherwise some of the answers could be wrongly interpreted as psychosis or deliberate fabrication.

  (Source: Psychological Tests to Diagnose Dissociative Identity Disorder)
  
  Does this facility to fragment through MPD/DID, and to forget about the experience altogether until it is recovered in middle-age through Recovered Memory Therapy point to some sort of evolutionary advantage white Western women have over other ethnicities? Or is it perhaps that white Western women endure more pain and suffering by the alleged satanists, than say the four-year-old girl in the DRC (though without any consequent physical injuries)?
  
  Psychologist Eli Somer PhD of the School of Social Work, Haifa, Israel researches dissociation. Although he was able to find, from an anthropology point-of-view, examples of 'dissociation trance' in non-Western culture, often entered-into deliberately through dance and song, together with references to demonic possession in some societies (some Western religious fundamentalists regard DID as being caused by demonic possession), he was unable to find any equivalent to Western middle-class white women's ability, willing or otherwise, to allegedly fragment into multiple personalities in the face of abuse. As is frequently noted, DID amongst Western white women is often identified as a complex form of malingering, or narcissism, with the subject, bereft of physical injuries, often having never conceived and on occasions still a virgin in adulthood. The victim or 'survivor' is invariably one who had been in receipt of a privileged background and upbringing, and will go to great lengths to seek and secure both attention and medical resources (such as endless psychotherapy and/or counselling sessions).
  
  

  Hacking believes that multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder is a recent and local phenomenon, stemming from nineteenth -century Western culture. A similar social constructionist view was presented by Spanos who argued that whether enactments of multiple identities serve the purpose of promoting a religion or simply of getting care and attention for someone who feels they do not have enough, those enactments are guided by rules and expectations specific to the time and culture in which they are manifest, which are understood and given legitimacy by the authority figures involved (be they members of the clergy or psychotherapists) and the observing audience. I agree with Spanos that Western culture many of the features of these conditions, but biologic and psychologic mechanisms are arguably mediated not primarily by local locals healers but by higher-level cultural idioms and meaning systems. Individualism, differentiation of the self, growth of the feminist movement, rising societal awareness, and concern over the issue of child abuse are powerful sociocognitive forces that have clearly been constructive in Western dissociation.

  (Source: Culture-bound Dissociation: A Comparative Analysis, by Eli Somer, PhD Page 222, Psychiatric Clinics of North America volume 29 - 2006, page 222)
  
  Other papers from the 1990s purported to have conducted research in some non-North American countries - Japan and the The Netherlands and Turkey (a NATO member state) and claim to have found evidence of DID/MPD in similar proportions to that in the US. Whilst The Netherlands suffered a moral-panic SRA Myth craze in the 1990s, Japan and Turkey certainly didn't. Dissociative symptoms and reported trauma among patients with spirit possession and matched healthy controls in Uganda (2010) by M van Duijl, E. Nijenhuis, IH Komproe, HB Gernaat, JT de Jong JT attempted to explore the relationships among spirit possession, dissociative symptoms and reported potentially traumatizing events in Uganda, by determining if 'spirit possession' was the result of trauma.
  
  The nearest study that can be equated to the Western white DID/MPD diagnosis is The clinical characteristics of possession disorder among 20 Chinese patients in the Hebei province of China (1998) by AC Gaw, Q Ding, RE Levine and H Gaw H. This studied 'possession disorder' amongst a group of Chinese patients. Unlike Western DID/MPD 'survivors', the subjects were rural uneducated poor. Major events reported to precede possession included interpersonal conflicts, subjectively meaningful circumstances, illness, and death of an individual or dreaming of a deceased individual. Possessing agents were thought to be spirits of deceased individuals, deities, animals, and devils. Twenty percent of subjects reported multiple possessions. The initial experience of possession typically came on acutely and often became a chronic relapsing illness. Unlike the Western DID/MPD conspiracy theories, there is no trace of severe physical and/or sexual torture, no appearance from Chinese security forces, aliens, 12'-high lizards or intergenerational satanist families, hypnosis or hallucinogenic drugs being applied.
  
  Religious fundamentalist psychologist and leading ISSD member George F. Rhoades Jnr, who was discussed on page one of this extended entry about his less-than-biased entry about Satanic Ritual Abuse for the Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (see Psychiatry and Psychology in the US and the SRA Myth (2005) made an effort to try to prove DID is prevalent outside the Western world, and notably the US with his book Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-cultural Perspective: Not just a North American Phenomenon co-written with Turkish psychiatrist Vedant Sar.
  
  Unfortunately his bias was emphasised by his own brief biography on the 'About the Editors' page;
  
  

  He is an international author and speaker conducting workshops/trainings in Hawaii, USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East on anger management, trauma, dissociation, and Satanic Ritual Abuse

  (Source: 'About The Editors' Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-cultural Perspective: Not just a North American Phenomenon - 2005 edited by Vedant Sar M.D and George F. Rhoades Jnr, published by Haworth Press)
  
  Perhaps not entirely surprisingly, the publishers Howarth Press, are an imprint division of British publishers Taylor & Francis, part of Informa PLC, a major publisher of conspiracy theory and SRA Myth/DID 'True Believer' books, and publisher of the ISSTD's Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. A lengthy discussion about Informa PLC's enthusiasm for publishing in the SRA Myth/DID field can be found under the entry for Peter Rigby.
  
  With the whole world to choose from, Dr. Rhoades and Dr. Sar didn't exactly break new ground. A pre-publication review by Dr. Colin A. Ross (see Dr. Colin Ross - psychiatry falls off a precipice) perhaps didn't help establish any serious credentials for the book, whilst the range of countries considered - Argentina, China, France, Germany, Hawaii (Dr. Rhoades home state), Iran, Israel, Northern Ireland, The Philippines and Puerto Rico skipped the risk of going to any of the countries - such as recent conflict zones such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia/Croatia, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, where according to the trauma=DID theory, True Believers would be expected to find multiple personalities in droves. To the various authors credit they struggled and admitted their results didn't correlate with any satanic ritual abuse instances in most countries, except of course Australia, New Zealand and the UK, all of which suffered 'moral panics' with the SRA Myth, particularly when feminists and religious fundamentalists engaged in collusion.
  
  Strangely the editors and contributors didn't get around to visiting or writing about any of the other nation that saw SRA Myth allegations, notably Canada and The Netherlands. The lack of coverage for Canada is particularly intriguing as that nation is very much regarded as the 'home' of the SRA Myth, and in particular the British Columbia town of Victoria (see The importance of 'Michelle Remembers').
  
  To date, no academic or practitioner, particularly amongst the DID/MPD enthusiast community, has been willing to research the incidence of DID amongst say victims of organised rape, torture and abuse in non-Western nations, such as, as detailed, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Indeed by way of example, Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-cultural Perspective: Not just a North American Phenomenon doesn't reference any country (or continent) with a majority population of people who would regard themselves as black.
  
  In early August 2011, the BBC, working in conjunction with the Bureau of Investigative Journalists sent an undercover team into the one-party state of Ethiopia, to investigate claims that the government was using development aid as a tool for political oppression.
  
  What they found went way beyond the practice seen in other countries as well as Ethiopia of withholding funds to villages that voted for opposition parties; they found evidence of sustained systematic rape and torture of women and girls over extended periods, and the incarceration and torture of men deemed to be opposed to the ruling political party.
  
  What the team found, broadcast on the BBC's Newsnight program on 5th August 2011 Ethiopia 'using aid as weapon of oppression' were women and men who certainly remembered everything that had been inflicted on them, in precise detail. The Western white middle-class woman's facility to simply forget anything allegedly traumatic inflicted on them was again, denied to them. As throughout human history and across the world today, suffering, physical, sexual or emotional suffering, could simply not be conveniently forgotten about, compartmentalised through the wonderful utility of 'Dissociative Identity Disorder'.
  
  One explanation for this of course, could conceivably be that the systematic rape and physical abuse of girls and women in places like the the DRC was simply not the "right kind" of abuse to create DID, in a similar fashion to the way British train-line operators will complain about the "wrong kind of leaves" or the "wrong kind of snow" when trying to explain why their services grind to a halt during the autumn or winter. DID white middle-class 'survivors' share a particular distinction too; unlike non-DID survivors of severe childhood sexual abuse, few of those (well actually none) who claim to have been victims of ritual abuse will exhibit the obvious signs of severe sexual and physical abuse; the scars (other than those self-inflicted), intestinal and gynaecological tears, the x-ray-able signs of former fractures. In response, 'survivors' claim their abuse was of a much more subtle kind, involving drugs, spinning tables, inflicted pain that left no marks and of course hypnosis. In response to such abuse they claim that they were subsequently fractured, deliberately or as a consequence of their abuse, into multiple personalities, whereupon they simply forgot about their abuse until later years.
  
  On one known occasion, the Western middle-class diagnosis of DID and its rhetoric has been applied to the cultural acceptance of demonic possession. A similar state exists with MSBP - Munchausens Syndrome By Proxy, employed, though with less regularity, against British women, often with autistic children. In the UK, US and some Third World nations, MSBP is a moniker for an accusation of witchcraft by-any-other-name, and this use has been identified in, amongst other countries, India. The Index entry for Dr. M. Somani references his academic paper "Witchcraft's syndrome: Munchausens syndrome by proxy", published in the January 2002 edition of the International Journal of Dermatology
  
  Dr. S.M. Razali, working at the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, provided another illustration of how Western obsession with a diagnosis can be applied to the identification of witchcraft and demonic possession in women and girls. Using a Western designator provides for huge opportunities for say witch-hunters in Africa and Asia; enabling them to escape censure in the West by simply adopting a Western 'standard'. Proposed changes to the DSM-V psychiatry manual in the US, to render DID for 'globally' relevant will probably result in more instances of women being burnt -to-death, not accused of being witches, but rather being accused of DID (see 'special pleading' - a Letter to The Guardian, January 23rd 2012.)
  
  

  A 21- year old Malay girl was brought by the parents to the psychiatric clinic of USM Hospital, Kelantan, Malaysia. The state of Kelantan is in the north-eastern region of the Peninsular Malaysia and it shared a common border with southern Thailand. She presented with recurrent episodes of not being herself for the past two weeks. The episode lasted between 20 minutes to l hour. During the attack her behaviour was totally changed. She talked irrelevantly in Thai, had labile affect, demanding and seemed to detach from reality. The family members believed that an evil spirit possessed her. She had an argument with the parents prior to the illness. She asked them to reject a marriage proposal from an influential family because she already had a special boyfriend. Although the proposal was politely turned down, the members of the rejected family were not happy because their reputation would be damaged. Since then the patient was noticed to be quite and withdrawn. Five days later she developed an episode of abnormal behaviour. The patient was brought to see a few bomohs but not much improvement The bomohs reinforced the belief that she was possessed by an evil spirit which act on the behalf of a powerful sorcerer from Thailand who was engaged by the rejected family. This explains her ability to converse in Thai during dissociative state. ... The session started with a middle age medium contacting a familiar spirit to assist him. After 10 minutes he went into trance as soon as the spirit entered his body. While in trance he tries to communicate with evil spirits from the patient's body. After a few minutes it was observed a recurrence episode of abnormal behaviour and the patient went into trance. Both of them then communicated in Thai; it was understood that the medium was persuading the evil spirit to leave the body. The evil spirit finally agreed to leave her and promised not coming back. Twitching of the patient's both hand and feet was observed as the evil spirit leaving the body. As soon as the spirit left her she emerged from the trance refreshed, greeted by friends and relatives who had been watching this ceremony. Since then she made a full recovery.

  (Source: Dissociative trance disorder: a case report, by S.M RAZALİ, published in the Eastern Journal of Medicine 4 Volume 2, pages 83-84, 1999.)
  
  The term 'special pleading' is used to identify instances when proponents of an idea try to to claim an exemption to a generally accepted rule. Advocates for the SRA Myth/DID/RMT and 'Mind Control' have resorted to 'special pleading' numerous times over the decades, in an effort to explain why evidence is utterly missing in providing at least hints that satanic or ritual abuse might be actually taking place, or that organised, even transgenerational groups of satanists exist. For the most part the Special Pleading is employed to explain that the hopeless lack of evidence is in itself convincing evidence, in that it proves just how well the satanists/ritual abusers have hidden their tracks. During the SRA Myth 'crazy' years of the 1980s and 90s in both the US and UK, this form of Special Pleading was employed both by religious fundamentalists and feminists, though to normally negative responses.
  
  'Special Pleading' hasn't been employed yet to explain why only white Western middle-class women are seemingly able to forget severe sexual and/or physical abuse, whilst women and children from the non-white regions of the world are denied such a facility. Yet if faced with such a question, it seems unlikely that any SRA Myth/DID proponent will be able to avoid having to employ Special Pleading, perhaps with 'not the right kind of rape or torture'. To date no advocate has been publicly asked to explain their position on this subject.
  
  For the skeptic, it isn't simply a case in believing that severe abuse leads to a loss-of-memory (the core to the Recovered Memory Therapy movement) or that severe abuse can provoke the creation of multiple personalities. Rather the skeptic has to be prepared to believe that these facilities are available only to white Western middle-class 'survivors', and that black people and other ethnicities are simply incapable of such abilities, even in the face of unimaginable pain, loss and grief. By rights locations like the DRC should be a magnet for DID/MPD advocates desperate to prove that trauma = dissociation identity disorder. Yet not a single psychotherapist from the West has bothered to travel with that aim in mind.
  
  As mentioned earlier, the theory of the Recovered Memory Movement is that faced with severe trauma, humans will promptly forget all about it. It seems though to fly-in-the-face of all logic - how on earth would the victim know when to take the opportunity to flee or defend themselves if the opportunity arose? If the trauma was somehow compartmentalised through the creation of multiple personalities, how would that improve the survival chances of the victim, particularly as the SRA Myth narrative routinely relates the eating and murder of babies and children?
  
  If DID/MPD is to be believed as being created as a response to trauma as a built-in defence mechanism, perhaps to ensure that the 'original' personality forget the events, then as a survival mechanism for those 'victims' in immediate peril, it appears particularly useless. One of the most convincing and documented MPD sufferer is Chris Costner-Sizemore whose life was filmed as the movie Three Faces of Eve (1957). An American white lady, her personalities, she says, came about from seeing instances of death regularly in her early childhood, and seeing her mother seriously injured. None of the events though directly threatened Ms. Sizemore physically. Rather it appears she did fragment, in an effort to deal with the trauma of what she had seen over an extended period of time. As an example of MPD, SRA Myth advocates are reluctant to quote Ms. Sizemore, because she believes that one psychiatrist Corbett H. Thigpen, who coined the term 'MPD', created at least one of her personalities 'Jamie' - the first instance of iatrogenic creation of a personality. Satanic Ritual Abuse, the CIA and intergenerational satanists played no part in her MPD. If anything the obsessions of the SRA Myth advocates have scuppered any attempt to have DID/MPD taken seriously. Even Dr. Thigpen became a distinct opposer to the MPD theory, recognising the ease with which therapists could create personalities, both deliberately and by accident.
  
  Below is an interview with Chris Costner-Sizemore, conducted by the BBC's Stephen Sackur;
  
  
  
  The second half of the superb interview, discusses the iatrogenic creation by Dr. Thigpen, and the predominance of DID sufferers from the US. A somewhat random cannon, Ms. Sizemore strives to seek more support for MPD/DID sufferers, but drops in occasional criticisms, such as;
  
  Stephen Sackur: So do you think people are misusing this?
  
  Chris Costner Sizemore: Oh yes, oh yes. I had one person tell me 'well I just want to be famous, so I'm going to be multiple'.
  
  Yet evidence of the concept of Dissociative Identity Disorder being caused by extensive and vicious childhood abuse (though not necessarily sexual in nature and not related to the fantasy of satanic or ritualised abused), does exist. The nature of such documented cases is such that, as with Chris Costner-Sizemore, the DID/SRA Myth enthusiasts and advocates are quite unwilling to use or quote such individuals as examples.
  
  Unlike the vast majority of DID 'survivors' who come from a middle-class and privileged background and manage to 'survive' their childhood tortures at the hands of alleged satanists without any gross physical injuries, signs of malnutrition, and, regrettably, often with their virginity intact or with no sign of having been pregnant, Pamela Edward, born in a working-class environment and bereft of an education, just doesn't fit the 'template'.
  
  One of seven children born into a poor Merseyside family, Pamela was physically abused throughout her early childhood, deprived of food and certainly deprived of any maternal attachment;
  
  

  Pamela was born in Merseyside in 1972, one of five girls and two boys. For much of the time, the children were kept locked in a filthy bedroom, the bedsheets permanently damp with urine. They were so hungry, they were forced to creep downstairs at night and stuff slices of bread into their knickers. If they were caught, they risked ferocious beatings. One of Pamela's sisters, Kira, remembers having to drink her own urine to quench her thirst. The local Social Services were aware of the problems but failed to intervene until Pamela was taken into care, aged five. According to their reports, she was "a very disturbed and unhappy little girl", and in a state of severe malnutrition. Her hands and feet were blue with cold, she was covered with burn marks, her buttocks were bruised and blistered and she was prone to "smacking and pinching herself, repeating phrases to herself such as 'Pamela wants a biscuit. Pamela's a naughty girl.' " She was not toilet trained and unwilling to eat solid foods. "Mrs Edwards grumbled about Pamela being 'a dirty bitch'," the report continued. Pamela's father is now dead. Her mother, according to Modell, refuses to acknowledge that the abuse took place and did not want to cooperate with the making of the programme.

  (Source: Being Pamela... and Sandra, Susan, Andrew and Margaret, by Elizabeth Day, The Daily Telegraph, 5th June 2005)
  
  David Modell filmed Pamela over two years of her life, in the care of 20-odd professionals, needed to give Pamela some chance of living the life denied to her in childhood. A clip from the film can be viewed on his site under the title of work, Being Pamela.
  Yet unlike the middle-class 'multiples' so easily encountered on numerous web sites, Pamela's multiplicity came as a last resort, in the face of terrible suffering. In previous times she would have been consigned to an asylum most likely, but in the modern world she is looked-after in the community, with the assistance of up to 20 helpers and at a cost of £500,000-a-year.
  
  Pamela demonstrates that behind the claim that child abuse can cause DID in some survivors there is some genuine, though rare (none of her equally-abused siblings have DID) validity. Paranoid theories that the CIA/MI5/intergenerational families of satanists routinely ritually torture and eat infants and children and leave them accidentally or deliberately 'multiple', whereupon they sail through their lives unhindered by gross injuries or the impact of immense early childhood suffering, just don't wash when compared to Pamela Edwards. Many middle-class 'survivors' claim to have lived extensive lives as assassins or spies, or sex slaves (or even all three) and enjoyed the benefit of total amnesia of what happened to them, until visiting a psychotherapist or reading a book like The Courage to Heal.
  
  Perhaps not entirely surprisingly, as previously mentioned, Pamela Edwards, like Chris Costner-Sizemore, isn't quoted by the DID 'survivor' community, DID/SRA Myth psychotherapy advocates in the US or UK like Dr. Sinason, or even other conspiracy therapists like David Icke; she simply doesn't fit the modern 'template' for a multiple.
  
  'Valid' survivors' - able to attend the seminars, buy the books and DVD's, tell each other (and the rest-of-the-world) their recovered memory stories, doubtlessly diminish the genuine suffering of such people as Pamela and Ms Costner-Sizemore. To a substantial degree, Pamela's story has been appropriated and corrupted by psychotherapy and a white middle-class 'me too' generation attracted to the condition of DID, but without the attendant physical and mental trauma that accompanies genuine survivors. A key feature of Pamela is that the creation of her 'multiples' didn't enable her to forget the abuse - her multiple personalities are anything but benign, cartoon-like characters that often accompany middle-class 'multiples'; her's are violent, raging creatures born from genuine suffering.
  
  For the True Believer and the white middle-class Western woman convinced of her multiplicity, her certain-to-her past ritual abuse at the hands of evil satanists, or CIA/MI5 agents (or satanic CIA/MI5 agents if you will) or even just Mum and Dad and their fellow multi-generational satanist family-friends, questions that doubt their authenticity are meaningless. Although routinely associated with malingering, BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), narcissism and of course 'traditional' schizophrenia, DID/MPD, particularly in those 'survivors' of claimed ritual abuse, does provide such individuals with the satisfaction of belonging to a 'club' of like-minded people. Whether it be via Internet forums, newsletters, or through attending the seemingly endless and numerous conferences, courses and seminars promoting DID. A cheaper alternative is to simply maintain a growing bookcase of ritual abuse/DID-related titles. Whatever the budget though, the community of DID-sufferers is hugely attractive to those who prefer to keep well away from those with a darker skin, or perhaps don't speak English as a first language.
  
  The Julie Atwood cartoon below emphasised the white, middle-class female nature of the DID/RMT industry. Initially it looks like group therapy, but rather it is supposed to illustrate the clients 'alters' - other women and girls, the accompanying 'littles', and of course, the all-knowing and all-seeing male therapist.
  
  
  
  Is it perhaps likely that the MPD/DID 'industry' is nothing more than a Western creation, a means for white Western women to gain attention to themselves, for psychotherapists who diagnose them to get a little richer, and for middle-class white religious fundamentalists and feminists to cry 'wolf', whilst at the same time trivialising the suffering of non-white women throughout the rest of the non-Western world, or even non-middle-class women who genuinely suffer DID? The bolting-on of the concept that Western white women suffer extreme abuse in childhood, forget about it entirely, only to then develop multiple personalities in later life and have their memories of the abuse retrieved through Recovered Memory Therapy has been about since the mid-1990s, after both mechanisms were employed to address the glaring problem of there being no evidence of SRA. The third 'bolt-on' - Mind Control was added shortly after, principally in an effort to explain how the 'survivors' had mysteriously forgot what had apparently been done to them. Yet after nearly two decades of the full-blown DID/RMT/Mind Control version of the 'Myth, it is difficult to see it in any other light than being inherently racist.
  
  Dr. Sinason herself contributed statistics and referenced others that suggest to us that DID would be easy to identify in locations such as the DRC, where trauma, rape and abuse had impacted on vast numbers of women and children.
  
  

  Professor Peter Fonagy has evaluated the aetiology of DID from trauma at 90%. (McQueen, Kennedy, Sinason and Maxstead 2008). North et al (1993) found that DID was not only linked to a high childhood sexual abuse rate but also 24%-67% occurrence of rape in adult life, and 60%-81% suicide attempts. Putnam et al (1986) in the USA looking at 100 DID patients found that 97% of the hundred had experienced major early trauma, with almost half having witnessed the violent death of someone close to them.

  (Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity 2nd edition - November 2010, by Valerie Sinason, published by Routledge)
  
  An obvious question is, if 97% of 100 Western DID 'survivors' witnessed the 'violent death of someone close to them' - wouldn't that make it easy to find children and adults with DID amongst those who had witnessed mass executions and slayings in the likes of Rwanda and Bosnia's Srebrenica, let alone the Nazi concentration camps? If Western middle-class and middle-aged white women represent, as is often portrayed by SRA Myth advocates, an epidemic of DID/MPD, then should Africa not be producing a 'pandemic' of DID? At the time-of-writing no SRA Myth/DID advocates have chosen to visit the DRC, to assist an NGO in determining a strategy to identify victims with MPD. Being amongst the most poverty-stricken of populations, the DRC's rape victims may perhaps be of little interest to psychotherapists used to feeding-off the considerable disposable incomes of their normal middle-class Western client base.
  
  Perhaps worst of all, the Recovered Memory Therapy 'survivor' lobby, and most blatant of all the 'survivors' who claim to be victims of SRA and consequent MPD/DID have no hesitation in devaluing the accounts of real survivors of childhood sexual abuse and incest, as they frantically try to outdo one another with more lurid accounts. Mark Pendergrast, the acclaimed author of Victims of Memory (1995) referred to this tendency in a letter to the Editor of the New Yorker Magazine, about Philip Gourevitch's book "The Memory Thief", an account of fake Holocaust survivor Binjamin Wilkomirksi/Bruno Doessekker, who had never had to suffer the nightmare of the concentration camps, but had rather, grown-up in a privileged family in Switzerland.
  
  

  One of the most striking parallels is the desire to dwell on their supposed past trauma. One retractor I interviewed (someone who has taken back her "memories") told me that she founded a survivor group that soon split into two groups. The real survivors - - those who had always remembered being sexually abused -- were very disturbed by the lurid, graphic tales that the recovered memory survivors insisted on telling at great length. The real survivors didn't want to talk about it much, nor did they cry and scream and roll on the floor. Similarly, Gourevitch quoted Wilkomirski's American publisher, Arthur Samuelson: "He [Wilkomirski] cried everywhere we brought him.... I know a lot of survivors -- and one thing they have in common is they don't cry. This guy couldn't stop." Fragments itself is similar to books of false sex abuse memoirs and stories, based on recovered memories. The stories are grotesque and disturbing in the extreme. The victims undergo sadistic cruelty that defies belief -- except that people are so horrified and moved that they do believe. Real survivor stories tend to be more muted, poignant, and coherent, with horrors and torture, all right, but not the gratuitous violence of horror film and nightmare. The false reports feed what Daniel Ganzfried accurately calls "the pornography of violence." When Wilkomirksi/Doessekker told Gourevitch, "To disbelieve me is to participate in my further victimisation," I recognised the statement from innumerable recovered memory sex abuse survivor handbooks. It is playing the victim role to the hilt. Like many of the sex abuse "survivors" I interviewed, Wilkomirksi/Doessekker is not really interested in ascertaining the truth through research or science. He refuses to submit to a DNA test. "I know I can trust my memory," he says, and that is enough, just as one woman whose case I documented was examined by doctors and found to be a virgin, but that did not sway her from her accusations of childhood rape. Also, as Gourevitch points out fleetingly, the actual truth of the memories is, incredibly, irrelevant to this subset of therapists. The truth doesn't matter -- it's the emotion.

  
  
  As noted numerous times in this section, privilege plays a key part in 'recovered memories'.
  
  

  Wilkomirksi/Doessekker is probably one of the 10% of the population who are highly fantasy prone and easily hypnotisable. Like most of the women who recovered false sex abuse memories, he is also a child of privilege. It is an irony that the self-proclaimed "survivors" in fact had relatively pampered childhoods. "He doesn't need to make a living," Daniel Ganzfried said of Wilkomirksi/Doessekker. "The issue is boredom." I think that is too pat and judgmental, and it ignores the very real suffering of those who come to believe they endured hellish childhoods, even when they didn't.

  (Source: Both quotes from Mark Pendergrast, Letter to the Editor, published in The New Yorker magazine, July 1999, published with the kind permission of the author.)
  
  The wealth of those who claim 'repressed memories' of abuse has been noticed by others in addition to Mark Pendergrast;
  
  

  Dr. Susan Clancy, a memory expert at Harvard University, explains that according to her research, "[E]vents that are terrifying or violent are always remembered -- often all too well. Events characterised by discomfort, shame and embarrassment may be forgotten, but this forgetting is due not to dissociation but to voluntary, active and conscious efforts to suppress painful memories. "There are no scientific data that trauma victims dissociate and forget their abuse. "Proponents of [recovered memory] theory need to spend less time talking with relatively affluent patients seeking explanation for their psychological distress and more time talking to real victims of childhood sexual abuse -- people who often lack the resources to seek therapy." Indeed, persons claiming to have repressed memories of ritual abuse have been overwhelmingly female, white, middle or upper class -- among the more privileged citizens of the globe, they come to believe that they are uniquely oppressed and uniquely damaged by childhood trauma that they didn't even remember.

  (Source: In The Wood with a Hood - the Repressed Memory Movement, author unknown, from Imaginary Crimes - true stories of people convicted of crimes without evidence)
  
  The nearest effort to try to determine that DID is present in the Congo was by C.A.R.E Incorporated, an SRA Myth and DID/MPD fundamentalist advocacy, who in 1999 published an account of Ndoki a form of what they determined to be witchcraft. The article then addressed how christian SRA Myth-believing communities should deal with the witches in their presence, who employed witchcraft against their congregations.
  
  

  Survivors in the United States and other Western countries, who have faced the terrible realities of being forced against their wills to engage in atrocious acts, know something about "hidden parts" who continue to go to coven meetings or use witchcraft. Survivors and those who work with them, who have placed their trust in Jesus the True Messiah, are perhaps the only people on earth who are specially equipped with the capacity to understand and be compassionate towards those who have "dark-selves". They are able to interceded for them with confident trust in God.

  (Source: DID and Ndoki, by Angela Stockamp)
  
  In May 2011 a report was published compiled by Amber Peterman of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Tia Palermo of Tony Brook University and Caryn Bredenkamp of the World Bank.
  
  

  3,436 congolese women were interviewed in 2007. Accordingly to the Associated Press, the researchers found that more than 40,000 women had been raped between 2006 and 2007. According to extrapolations, that means that nationwide, 29 Congolese women out of every 1,000 had been raped. That's 58 times the annual rate in the United Staters, which is 0.5 per 1,000 women. The New York Times reports that 12% of those surveyed said they'd been raped at least once, and 22% said they'd been forced to perform sexual acts or have sex by a partner.

  (Source: Congo Rape Epidemic is Even Worse Than Previously Thought, by Margaret Hartmann, Jezebel, May 11 2011)
  
  For Western white women, apparently having suffered from ritual abuse, and even the efforts of it seems, their national security services to turn them into mind-controlled slaves, then life for some is particularly easy. Although seemingly impossible, many 'multiples' that is people who claim to have DID/MPD don't suffer the awkwardness of having their 'alters' take over at inconvenient moments day or night. Instead all of them work in a 'system' an apparent shared experience whereby 'littles' - that is small children personalities, vie for attention and time from other adults, some male, some female, or even 'alters' that aren't human, such as spiders and lobsters, or often, aliens. A key 'feature' of modern DID 'survivors' is that they are aware of their alters, refer to themselves as 'we', which challenges the idea that DID/MPD is a facility to enable trauma to be diverted away, to be forgotten. If the original personality is aware of other personalities, what if anything has been achieved? In the postings below an Irish DID/MPD 'survivor' who apparently still meets-up with her ritual abusers, has to contend with the humdrum issues of life, the sheer brutality of having to live in the Western English-speaking world, a continent, a skin color and a life unimaginable from that of a raped little girl from the Democratic Republic of Congo;
  
  

  Its almost time to go visit Jess and their system. I leave for Dublin tomorrow morning. My parents are going with me to see me off on the plane on Thursday. My flights at 10 AM. Its an 8 hour flight. I think we land in o’hare at 12:30. Then I have a few hours wait (about 3 I think) before I fly to bloomington where Jess will pick me up. I cant wait to see Jess. I am so excited for it. I am doing all my last minute bits today. I went shopping this morning to buy a red cardigan. I got a nettie one which has short sleeves. It will match some of my string tops that I’m bringing. I also got factor 20 sunblock, because it was on sale. Jess had some I know, but when I spotted a deal I couldn't pass it up. I’ll need suncream the day we go to the zoo for sure. I dont want sunburn! On Sunday at the fun day I got sunburnt on my face and chest. Its pretty red and sore still. So i dont want a repeat of that. I also got some presents for my kids in Jess’s system today. And I had to get my eyebrows and lip waxed. And my shilax nail polish removed. Its a gel polish so when it gets put on it wont chip or come off unless you soak it in acitone. When I came home my sister did my hair. Its now a purply red color. I’ll post pics in a little bit. I also shaved my arms and legs so now I’m all beautified. I have a few last minute things to pack and I think I’m ready for vacation! ... We saw our psych doc yesterday. That went better than I hoped. She was really nice to me. I was the one out. I expected her to blow her top because the last time we saw her, which was back last march, we’d oberdosed and had been in the hospital and stuff. She hadnt wanted to admit us but then she did, for a few days, but someone signed us out against medical advice, and it was not cool. Then the home based crisis team got involved, but they decided not to take our case because they felt we had enough support with Joan and our psych doc. Anyway, back to yesterdays apt. We told her what happened recently with our darks meeting up with a cult related person and how we got hurt physically and sexually. She said that it was a real setback and how that sorta thing hadnt happened in a long time now. Which she is right about. We also talked some about the assessment we had, and how it kinda caused us a lot of system problems. She said that yes it did, and how we should be careful what we wish for because those type of assessments even though they are specialised are a lot of pressure, extra pressure on the system in general. We talked about our possibly going back to school and how would we continue to see her because we’d be in school full time. She said we’d maybe be able to work something out, and how the school would have to give us the time off. It was a good apt, nothing was changed medication wise, we’re still on our modecate injection once a month. Carol anne

  (Source: Postings on 'Manyofus's public blog')
  
  The nature of the SRA Myth 'survivors' is discussed further in The Paracelsus Trust.
  
  If DID/MPD exists, and there is certainly evidence of it - then it is an incredibly rare condition, and one accompanied by genuine evidence of physical injury and/or sustained abuse. Indeed to have DID/MPD we can assume that early childhood abuse was substantial and prolonged. SRA Myth/DID 'survivors' routinely attempt to circumvent the awkwardness of not being able to demonstrate evidence of childhood abuse through mechanisms such as describing 'spinning tables', electric shocks, the application of hypnosis and hallucinogenic drugs and gases, anything and everything to attempt to explain the missing scars, signs of broken bones and fractures, tears, rips and strains, even the lack of unhealthy pallor (from being out-of-the-sun for too long) and often, the intact hymens. Bolting-on conspiracy theories such as satanist from the CIA/MI5, as discussed below, appears nothing more than an effort to over-egg the obsessions.
  
  

  Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder - taking psychotherapy to a new academic low

  Promoting the SRA Myth and DID/RMT/Mind Control through the publication of quasi-academic text books has been a 'feature' of the current incarnation of the paranoid conspiracy community for several years now, in both the US and UK. A key difference between the two nations though has been the fact that UK publishers of 'Myth-promoting books are considered serious publishers of titles for psychiatry and psychotherapy/analysis. In the US, religious or spiritual-book publishers generally assume the task of pandering to the SRA Myth-believing audience, primarily comprised of English-speaking, white middle-class and middle-aged females. In the UK this task has been assumed by Informa PLC, who own the imprint Routledge through its Taylor & Francis division, and Karnac Books.
  
  In 2008 British publisher Karnac, known principally for publishing psychotherapy and psychiatry volumes, issued Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton's Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder. The book seemingly strived to cement the reputation forensic psychotherapy has already - that of being a pseudo-science riddled, 'shit-house-rat-crazy' element within psychotherapy. The choice of contributors and their essays would ensure the book was distinctly classified in the 'loony' field.
  
  
  
  Valerie Sinason contributed an essay, already quoted-from earlier on this page, which included name-checking Dr. Corydon Hammond, David Icke and Dr. Colin Ross as reliable sources. The book was published under the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series with the Series Editor being Brett Kahr and the 'Honorary Consultant' willing to put her name against the titles being Estela Welldon. Brett Kahr is listed as an Associate of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, whilst the volumes editors Galton and Sachs are, as mentioned before, genuine Clinic Members (see Clinic Members). It seems unlikely that Dr. Kahr would be an Associate without being a fully-paid-up True Believer in the 'Myth - and not just the 'Myth alone, but all of its associated baggage, including the idea that CIA and MI5 officers are child-abusing satanists. Dr. Kahr's SRA Myth-believing pedigree is discussed on the following page of this Entry.
  
  As Series Editor of the Karnac Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series, Dr. Brett Kahr explained his passion for the new 'science' of forensic psychotherapy, and the basis for Karnac's publications;
  
  

  The volumes in this series of books will aim to provide both practical advice and theoretical stimulation for introductory students and for senior practitioners alike. In the Karnac Books Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series, we will endeavour to produce a regular stream of high-quality titles, written by leading members of the profession, who will share their expertise in a concise and practice-orientated fashion. We trust that such a collection of books will help to consolidate the knowledge and experience that we have already acquired and will also provide new directions for the upcoming decades of the new century. In this way, we shall hope to plant the seeds for a more rigorous, sturdy, and wide-reaching profession of forensic psychotherapy.

  (Source: Series Forward, pages xi and xii of Forensic psychotherapy and psychopathology: Winnicottian perspectives (2001) by Brett Kahr, published by Karnac Books)
  
  
  
  Chapter Three of Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder, The Extreme Abuse Surveys: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder by Thorsten Becker, Wanda Karriker, Bettina Overkamp and Carol Rutz proves that the subject can be mildly amusing to those skeptics looking into the crazed world of the SRA Myth/DID/Mind Control paranoid conspiracy theorists. With a world-wide survey of people claiming that they had been satanically abused, forced to become DID and often employed by secret government agencies, perhaps not surprisingly, most of the respondents claimed to have been satanically abused, forced to become DID and employed by secret government agencies.
  
  By way of example, in the published 'cod science' results of 'Ideologically motivated crimes. Mind control (EAS only)', 175 (one hundred and seventy five) respondents agreed that;
  
  I have experienced mind-control programming through which I was trained to become an assassin
  (Source: The Extreme Abuse Surveys: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder by Thorsten Becker, Wanda Karriker, Bettina Overkamp and Carol Rutz, published in Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder, edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, Karnac Books, 2008)
  
  Of that 175 now-successfully-and-safely-retired assassins, 128 came from the US, 16 from Canada, thirteen from the European Union and 18 from 'other'.
  
  Obviously with 175 trained assassins amongst them, the SRA Myth/DID community is not only the richest group of survivors, being made up of predominantly white, English-speaking middle-class and middle-aged women, but also unquestionably the most dangerous and lethal lobby group in the world - able to no doubt deploy highly-trained and motivated assassins at any moment (if they can tear themselves away from watching an episode of the X-Factor whilst knitting another blankey.
  
  Whilst many 'survivors' claim to be trained assassins and spies. Strangely though, none of the supposedly immensely huge organisations that 'programmed' them, can be bothered to have such apparently former operatives like Trish Fotheringham 'bumped off' by a currently-employed Mind-Controlled assassin. The Entry for US SRA Myth proponent Neil Brick discusses this extraordinary number of SRA Myth/DID 'survivors' who claim to have been trained to be a mind-controlled assassins, a group he includes himself in.
  
  Although it can be thought that there might be genuinely serious practitioners of 'forensic psychotherapy' - any hope that the profession can be treated seriously was probably lost with the publication of Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder in 2008. But even in 2001 in Forensic psychotherapy and psychopathology: Winnicottian perspectives, Brett Kahr was unable to resist the temptation to add a bit of satanic ritual abuse mythology into the mix, setting the scene perhaps for the route he wished forensic psychotherapy would pursue;
  
  

  Valerie Sinason in her chapter "Children who kill their Teddy Bears", provides a chilling contribution to the study of the perversion of motherhood, describing her pioneering work with the survivors of satanist rituals and other forms of grotesque abuse.

  (Source: Introduction, page 9 of Forensic psychotherapy and psychopathology: Winnicottian perspectives (2001) by Brett Kahr, published by Karnac Books)
  
  The series of books from Karnac include another associated theme title: Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians edited by John Gordon and Gabriel Kirtchuk. In early 2011 Karnac Books continued, like Routledge, with it's enthusiastic promotion of the SRA Myth, with the publication of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs edited by psychotherapists Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz and Rachel Wingfield. Both publishers seemingly pursuing a marketing approach to mangle the reputation of psychotherapy, and their own publishing houses, once-and-for-all. The subject of the volume Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs is investigated and further discussed in Part Four of this entry, which continues the discussion about how psychotherapy in the UK continues to be identified with theories promoted by notably, David Icke. Karnac Books and Informa PLC (the owner of Routledge) are leading that charge - intent on ensuring that the profession of psychotherapy isn't just open to charges of being having fallen off a cliff into paranoia, but that the allegations can be presented with documented evidence they publish.
  
  
  
  Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs struggled to find willing reviewers, and had to resort to comments from Sir Richard Bowlby and leading SRA Myth advocate Professor Brett Kahr, who described himself as being from the Centre for Child Mental Health, London (see The Centre for Child Mental Health & the SRA Myth), plus Professor John Read, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, who, as one of the countries leading SRA Myth advocate, had attempted in the past to ban a 'proper' scientist - Professor Elizabeth Loftus, one of the worlds leading authorities on human memory, from a conference.
  
  Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs and Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder can be read as volumes in a series, and provide important indicators about the state of British psychotherapy in the early 21st century. That both books are published by a leading British psychotherapy and psychiatry academic book publisher - Karnac Books - is significant; the obsessions with the SRA Myth can be seen to hit 'mainstream'.
  
  Dr. Sinason and her similarly-minded peers make no effort to simply report what their 'survivor' patients are telling them - that they have somehow survived the attentions of a global satanic mind-controlling CIA-led satanist/satanic child abuse cult. That would be interesting from a clinician point of view and reporting such would be a legitimate contribution to the fantastic world of human imagination and sometimes mental illness. Instead though, Dr. Sinason and other advocates of the SRA Myth proclaim through seminars and essays like From Social Conditioning to Mind Control their unshakable belief in the 'Myth, employing the mechanisms that no evidence of it is definite evidence of its existence, and utterly captivated by it's baggage of Vast Conspiracies, existing beneath the surface of Western society, able to elude for decades, indeed hundreds of years, any form of detection. Dr. Sinason's enthusiasm for the 'Myth is only matched by her abject unwillingness to secure any cast-iron evidence for it.
  
  Yet Dr. Sinason writes repeatedly that her patients come to the Clinic, often terrified, sometimes even still being satanically abused. Her writings frequently relate case histories of patients in such dire straits. Yet, in over 21 years of operation, no-one even charged with a specimen offence, no newspaper reports of how a patient at the Clinic saw her (it is almost always white middle-class young women) abusers convicted in Court, sent to prison.
  
  If there was any suspicion that Dr. Sinason was simply skirting around the paranoid conspiracy theories as part of a more serious body of work, then her lengthy passage on the Illuminati dispels this utterly. In this passage from Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder she once again refers to her belief that satanic ritual abusers of children include 'CIA controllers', and, by implication, perhaps customers of her publisher Routledge;
  
  

  Illuminati is a name that refers to several groups-real, a mixture of truth and distortion, and fictitious. Historically, it refers specifically to an Establishment secret society founded in 1776 by Adam Weidshaupt. Whether people we encounter who say they are Illuminati, or have been hurt by Illuminati programs, are genuine descendants from the 1776 group, or from new groups seeking to link themselves to that history, or from those with a fictitious disorder, the point is that whatever the victim believes is what becomes internalized. Those who speak of links with the Illuminati see the fact that the Monarch butterfly returns to its home as symbolic, and they also point to the occult meanings of butterflies. The Gnostics saw the butterfly as a symbol of corrupt flesh, and psyche meant both butterfly and soul. Out of some people who show signs of Monarch programming, a significant number come from, or believe they come from, satanist or Luciferians bloodlines. It is reported that CIA controllers sometimes dressed up in satanist costumes to further traumatise the children, also providing a cover that would not be believed if the children ever spoke of the abuse. It is again a separate question as to whether the controllers were, in fact, using such names for the purpose of further hurting children and adults. I have to state here, as I have before (Sinason, 1994), that I am in no way saying satanism is equated with crime. Indeed, some satanists I have met are victims of disturbed sadistic clerics who have so threatened them with Hellfire that they have joined the other side as a defence against torture. There are satanists who would hurt no one-and some priests, vicars, rabbis, and mullahs who have. Within Monarch, several levels of programming can be accessed through Greek letters to gain the alter with the function that is required. The Greek letters that colleagues and I have heard are alpha, beta, gamma, delta (which was named by Romola), and omega (which is a "self-destruct" form of programming also known as "Code Green"). I do not know how such ideas have spread and how many groups have borrowed the idea and technology from elsewhere, like a cook trying different recipes, or how much it comes from a shared experimental interest, power game, or belief system. Nevertheless, the crime of creating alters deliberately in this way is something we have seen, and the proof of this is within the DID.

  (Source: From Social Conditioning to Mind Control, pages 181 & 182, an essay contributed by Valerie Sinason to Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr).
  
  A review of the Index and Bibliography of SRA Myth-advocacy books is always an interesting exercise. Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder is no exception, providing an insight into the influences on the essayists who contributed to it.
  
  'witchcraft' appears on pages 43, 187, 189 and 192.
  The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) on 33, 34, 37-38, 40, 42, 43, 46 and 47
  MKULTRA on pages 34, 174, 175, 180, 183 and 188
  Mind control on 8, 14, 18, 21, 34-38, 40, 42-44, 48, 106, 127, 170, 173, 175, 177-180, 183, 185-186, 192
  satanic ritual abuse on 6, 34, 42, 48, 78, 141, 142 and 192
  satanists on pages 9, 13, 14, 16, 158 and 181
  torture on 18, 20-22, 34, 44, 131-133, 143, 161, 166, 172-174, 179, 181, 185, 187-190
  
  
  In the REFERENCES (the bibliography) section, the 'usual suspects' can be found, with a particular emphasis to be found on American SRA Myth-advocacy texts of the 1990s.
  
  Not unusually there is fundamentalist Andrew Boyd's Blasphemous Rumours: is satanic ritual abuse fact or fantasy? An investigation. This book had a significant impact on many, including David Icke and feminist Sara Scott, who even worked to promote a follow-up book by Boyd with a now long-derided television documentary (see Report on the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Satanic Ritual Abuse her co-authored essay in Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse).
  
  Dr. Joan Coleman's loopy essay in Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Satanic cult practices is listed.
  
  Cory D. Hammond's infamous speech is listed as Hammond, D.C ‘Hypnosis in MPD/Ritual Abuse usually known at “The Greenbaum Speech”) Talk given to the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality, Alexandria, VA, 25 June 1992. The Greenbaum Speech is discussed at Dr. Corydon Hammond - the rise of the mind-controlled satanically-abused robot slave (and other ramblings)
  
  For fictional excess, there isn't much to beat Hersha, L., Hersha, C Griffis, D and Schwarz T (2001) Secret Weapons: Two sisters’ terrifying true story of sex, spies, and sabotage.
  
  A quick review of Secret Weapons can be found below;
  
  

  Now in their late 30s, the Hersha sisters claim to have experienced chilling childhoods, recounted here by two Ohio-based investigators Schwarz (The Hillside Strangler) and former police captain and "ritual abuse expert" Griffis who say they have studied declassified CIA files and interviewed military personnel in an effort to bolster the Hersha memories. Before the age of seven, the sisters say, they were inducted into a covert, government-authorized, mind-control program designed to spawn spies and assassins. During weekends and summers, they were subjected to traumatising experiments. Cheryl tells of her days as a caged "lab rat," released to navigate electrified mazes. The two became "psychological captives," programmed to respond to code words. Following practice in weaponry, martial arts and flight training, altered identities were purportedly introduced. At 15, Lynn "was made part of a unit that experienced murder," and she assumed the identity of team leader "Lt. Rick Shaw." As the seductive "Samantha Gooding," Cheryl would paralyse her victims, and she later became the cocky chopper pilot "Sgt. Thomas O'Neil." Naturally, these two "men," long separated, were destined to meet: "Cheryl Hersha! It's me, Lynn, your sister. You've got to let me go. You can't shoot me." Credibility collapses, as improbabilities are piled on inconsistencies, and the truth is buried beneath simplistic, pulp-adventure prose. In closing, the authors claim that "Their story is true," following with an admission that they found no government documents about the program or the sisters. An elaborate disclaimer about the "presumed thoughts and imagined words of the participants" will lead many readers to ponder just how much real events have been fictionalised.

  (Source: Publishers weekly review of Secret Weapons : Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage - 2001, by Cheryl Hersha , Lynn Hersha, Dale Griffis & Ted Schwarz)
  
  Not worrying about its pulp-fiction pretensions, Graeme Galton and Adah Sachs listed Secret Weapons as being a serious piece of work.
  
  Joining it was the obligatory David Icke Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster: Why the official story of 9/11 is a monumental lie (2002)
  
  And going the whole-hog, Galton and Sachs add;
  
  Mark Philips and Cathy O’Brien – Trance Formation of America: The True Life of a CIA Mind Control Slave (2001)
  
  Fundamentalist Catherine Gould, famous for her Satanic Ritual Abuse indicators gets two listings. Serial psychotherapty-profession-abuser Phil Mollon is given multiple listings, together with the usual Randy Noblitt and Frank W. Putnam, a long-term SRA Myth/DID advocate favourite.
  
  In amongst the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' listings, shared with the likes of Cathy O'Brien and David Icke can be found four listings for poor attachment pioneer John Bowlby, his reputation shot to pieces with the unwelcome association with the extreme right-wing religious fundamentalist-driven conspiracy theories that infest Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder from cover-to-cover (see The SRA Myth and the destruction of John Bowlby's legacy).
  
  The rear-cover blurbs are contributed by Sir Richard Bowlby, the son of John Bowlby, who has presided over the trashing of his fathers reputation. He is joined by Dr. Arnon Bentovim, whose essay, co-written with his future wife in 1994's Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse helped confirm the perception that the SRA Myth in Britain during the crazy years had been jointly primarily pursued to demonise the poor and socially-excluded (see The Evil, Satanic Poor Part Two) and to chase imaginary witches and their covens. Estela Welldon, who was at the beginning of the founding of RAINS at the very beginning (see Valerie Sinason's own co-written essay in Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse - Going through the fifth window commends the book in her role as 'Founder & Honorary President for life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy', although thanks to Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder and its editors and contributors, there is no danger of that profession being taken seriously outside its own confines.
  
  Further discussion about the contents of Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder can be found in the section The Paracelsus Trust.
  
  Much of Dr. Valerie Sinason's conspiracy theory world can be sourced to extreme far-right fundamentalist sources. Her Illuminati obsession for instance, and in particularly her willingness to write (I)t is reported that CIA controllers sometimes dressed up in satanist costumes to further traumatise the children have a direct parallel in the often-crazed meanderings of US conspiracy theorists to whom the US government, anti-abortionists, non-believers and educated women are regarded as 'fair game'. Bizarrely, Dr. Sinason, who is Jewish, also comes within the scope of the inherent racism of such True Believers.
  
  

  The Illuminati couldn’t do it alone without its fronts. Satanists within the Network & the CIA took over Boy’s Town, NE in the early 1950s, & used that famous orphanage for a constant supply of boys for programming. Boy’s Town is perhaps the most famous, but there are whole long list of others. When the Monarch Programming started, the top men were Illuminati. Originally, Joseph Mengele was the lead programmer. He had already achieved the rank of Grand Master (later Ipssimus) within the Illuminati. He had become skilled in music, in Kabbalistic Magic, in dancing, in abortions, and in torture (by the way, Mengele had a sadistic mother) and programming children. ... The intelligence networks were started by and run by the Illuminati. They are Illuminati fronts. The use of slaves crosses many organisational boundaries within the overall Network. If a slave is to be used as a Delta model (assassination), they may be selected for strength and dexterity. The Delta Force is the army’s elite unit made up of Monarch slaves. If they are to operate as a Beta model (sexual slave), they will be chosen if they can master technique. Occasionally they might in some circumstances be selected for how pretty the programmers expect the child to become. Some parents have produced good looking children and are actually sought-after to bear children to sell into the Mind Controlled Slavery "Freedom Train" System.

  (Source: The Illuminati formula used to create an undetectable Mind Control Slave - by Fritz Springmeier & Cisco Wheeler)
  
  David Ickes views, which in turn lift much from the extreme far-right fundamentalist faction in the US, injected with a little sci-fi uniqueness (shape-shifting 12' aliens) also parallels much of Dr. Sinason's universe. Stating an opinion as unadulterated fact and then having it repeated by others in their works is a key feature of the "shit-house-rat-crazy" conspiracy theorist industry. For True Believers in the 'Myth, a conspiracy theory that suffers hugely from both a lack of evidence and a more distinct lack of interest by its advocates for actually securing evidence, it is deemed sufficient to simply quote others' Belief in the 'Myth; in the hope that doing so will present a veneer of academic respectability.
  
  The explosion in conspiracy theories across the middle-class Western world that have typified recent years perhaps has a simple explanation to help us understand why so many secularists and even some humanists are engaged with often crazed beliefs. Religious fundamentalists are of course excused; their pursuit of conspiracies and demons has been a core aspect of extremist religious thought and action for so many centuries that it is now almost routine. Amongst many US fundamentalists, God has been consigned to being a mere bystander, unable to intervene as (apparently) Satan, through his minions in the CIA and US Government, embark on hugely complex "false flag" exercises to provoke a "New World Order". The thought that rather the government and security services are simply stuffed to the eyeballs with fuckwits never crosses their minds.
  
  For the atheists, humanists and those at all points in-between, perhaps English Christian writer G. K. Gesterton's words from a past century fit well;
  
  

  It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything.

  
  
  David Icke, as with Dr. Sinason in her essay From Social Conditioning to Mind Control for the most part doesn't bother with footnotes, verifiable sources, or any inclination to use any form of accepted evidence. ibid features hugely in the references page for chapters, when present. Icke though has never claimed to be an academic, let alone an 'expert'. He was a soccer goalkeeper and television sports presenter before having his cathartic insight. Here we meet one of Dr. Sinason's robot mind-control assassins, apparently in the mould of her Lieutenant Romola.
  
  

  Whatever precisely happened, Bobby Kennedy was murdered by the same forces that killed his brother and they used a mind-controlled assassin who has remained programmed and mentally scrambled ever since. It is by this same method of hypnotic mind control that many computer programmers in the UK defence industry have suffered bizarre "suicides" and other deaths. Many victims have worked for the General Electric Company and its subsidiary, Marconi, and yet another cover up has suppressed the truth.

  (Source: And the Truth Shall Set You Free (2004) by David Icke, page 287)
  
  As with Dr. Sinason, David Icke too shares an opinion about an Illuminati, a secretive organisation they believe are responsible for controlling Mankind's destiny;
  
  

  The Illuminati, the clique that control the direction of the world, are genetic hybrids, the result of interbreeding between a reptilian extraterrestrial race and humanity many thousands of years ago. The center of power is not even in this dimension -- it is in the lower fourth dimension, the lower astral as many people call it, the traditional home for the "demons" of folklore and myth. These fourth-dimensional reptilian entities work through these hybrid bloodlines because they have a vibrational compatibility with each other. This is why the European royal and aristocratic families have interbred so obsessively, as do the so-called Eastern Establishment families of the United States, which produce the leaders of America. Every presidential election since and including George Washington in 1789 has been won by the candidate with the most European royal genes. Of the 42 presidents to Bill Clinton, 33 have been genetically related to two people, Alfred the Great, King of England, and Charlemagne, the most famous monarch of what we now call France. It is the same wherever you look in the positions of power... they are the same tribe!

  (Source: A Concise Description of the Illuminati by David Icke)
  
  Icke though doesn't come up with his ideas in isolation. It appears there is a dissemination of paranoid concepts flowing between himself and the psychotherapists, whom Dr. Sinason can count as being a leader;
  
  

  And when I talk to therapists around the world who work with satanically abused people, those who survived, trying to give them their minds back, they tell me that the deities their clients tell them are used in these rituals today are exactly the same deities that the Babylonians were using and the Cainites were using and the Phoenicians were using, right back in the ancient world. So, The Biggest Secret for me, in summary, is that an extraterrestrial race has interbred with humanity, creating particular hybrid bloodlines which they can work through from this dimension very close to ours, and that as it expanded over the thousands and hundreds of years to the present day, they’ve managed to expand their power out of a power base in the Near and Middle East, other places too but particularly there, until today they are actually in control of the planet.

  (Source: Are Their Aliens Among Us? The Biggest Secret An Interview With David Icke by Rick Martin, published in The SPECTRUM, August 3, 1999, Vol 1 Number 3).
  
  David Icke adopted the SRA Myth, together with the fantasies of Mind Control and DID promoted by Dr. Sinason, Dr. Corydon Hammond and Dr. Colin Ross quite late in his latter-day career. However in The Biggest Secret (1999) he went into overdrive on the subject, differing little from Dr. Sinason's ramblings in From Social Conditioning to Mind Control published in Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder;
  
  

  ...this lady is so high in the Satanic hierarchy that even the Queen is, apparently, forbidden to speak to her during the ceremonies. She was genetically bred for this job and her mother is of French noble descent. Arizona told me that the reptilians do not appear to be that psychic, and I guess this has something to do with the lack of a fully formed emotional and spiritual level of being, and so they mind control and programme humans of particular bloodlines, like her, to perform the rituals and draw in the energies for them. She says she was personally programmed by Josef Mengele (she knows him as Green or Greenbaum), a shape-shifting reptilian, and the infamous Nazi mind controller and genetic manipulator, who escaped at the end of the war with the help of British and American Intelligence to continue his horrors in the United Kingdom, the United States, and South America.

  (Source: The Biggest Secret (1999) by David Icke, page 302)
  
  
  
  Whilst SRA Myth advocates of the scandals of the late 1980s, early 1990s and 2003 in England, Wales and Scotland never apparently hesitated to try to demonise the poor and disadvantaged in society (see The Evil, Satanic Poor), David Icke will never miss a chance for a little anti-semitism;
  
  

  The Satanists among the ‘Jewish’ hierarchy today still perform the same rituals while the mass of the Jewish people worldwide have no idea that this is so. Stories throughout the centuries to the present day of the sacrifice of children by Jewish fanatics at the time of the Passover can be seen to have a historical basis when you realise the true meaning of the Passover.

  (Source: The Biggest Secret (1999) by David Icke, page 307)
  
  In concert with Dr. Sinason, David Icke appears to have adopted wholly the entire SRA Myth, even incorporating a belief that the famous McMartin case in the US was all true, with secret underground tunnels having been magically filled-in, having been used to spirit children away from a daycare center in hot air balloons and jet aircraft (see Continuing collusion and future threats.) All of the scandals in the UK; Rochdale, Broxtowe (Nottingham) and of course Cleveland, were, he feels, absolutely spot-on examples of SRA. His belief echoes that of the leading SRA Myth advocates in the still-existing RAINS organisation, and amongst the psychiatry and psychotherapy professions, who have never been willing to recognise a lost cause with these cases.
  
  Often David Icke simply regurgitates the documented beliefs of leading SRA Myth advocates of the past and present, such as adapting Dr. Bennett Braun's 'Rule of P's' - revealing the public persona of secret satanic ritual abusers as being: physicians, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, principals and teachers, pallbearers, public workers, police, politicians and judges, priests and clergies of all religions, parents and providers of day care. Icke though doesn't bother providing a credit to Dr. Braun.
  
  

  In Britain there have been, among many others, cases in Orkney, Nottingham, Rochdale and Cleveland. Each time the social workers trying to expose Satanic abuse have been subjected to a blitz of condemnation by the mainstream media with the Mail On Sunday particularly vehement in its opposition. It went so far on one occasion as to describe the “spectre” of Satanism as “hysterical nonsense”. Such remarks are so at odds with worldwide evidence that they can only be the work of an uninformed idiot (quite possible) or someone who wishes the truth to remain uncovered. ... Satanic ritual abuse is a global network, another pyramid of interconnecting groups, with the high and mighty of society among their numbers, top politicians, government officials, bankers, business leaders, lawyers, judges, doctors, coroners, publishers, editors and journalists. All the people you need, in fact, to carry out and cover up your rituals and crimes against humanity. It is not that researchers see Satanists everywhere. The ratio of them in leading positions is very high because that’s the way it is meant to be. The Satanic networks control the system and so they ensure that there is a far, far, higher ratio of Satanists in positions of power than there are in the general population. The higher you go up the pyramids, the more Satanists you find. Most of the non- Satanists are filtered out before they reach those levels. The result of all this for the children involved is beyond the imagination of anyone who has not experienced the level of trauma that they must suffer.

  (Source: The Biggest Secret (1999) by David Icke, page 309)
  
  Whilst David Icke's adoption of the SRA Myth into his all-encompassing conspiracy theories isn't, it has to be said, too great a shock, what is perhaps jaw-dropping for lay readers is that psychotherapist Dr. Valerie Sinason should be referencing him in her work, when there is every indication that she assisted, in person or just through her previous work, with the incorporation of the 'Myth into his worldview in the first place.
  
  If it was thought that perhaps Dr. Sinason's written views were just an example of one extremist, then a researcher doesn't have to go much further to find someone similar.
  
  

  Dr. Ellen P. Lacter - American witch-hunter

  American SRA Myth True Believer Ellen P. Lacter is a frequent visitor to the United Kingdom, and can be regularly found attending the same events and seminars as Dr. Sinason. They routinely cross-reference each other in their work. In Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder Dr. Lacter's description makes it clear how easily experts with her view have hooks into the child protection and family justice systems;
  
  

  Ellen P. Lacter is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She is Academic Coordinator of the Play Therapy Certificate programme at the University of California, San Diago Extension. She specialises in the treatment of dissociative disorders, ritual abuse trauma, and abused children and adults. She is an activist for survivors of ritual abuse and mind control.

  (Source: About the Editors and Contributors, page xx Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr).
  
  Dr. Lacter's teaching role allows her to promote the religious fundamentalist-derived SRA Myth to trainee psychotherapists and even social workers, through the auspices of the University of California.
  
  Dr. Lacter's contribution to Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder, discussed in the previous section, is titled Mind Control: Simple to Complex and immediately follows Dr. Sinason's essay. It also comprises the final section of the book (ensuring that the last chance to rescue some kind of professional semblance of reality is lost by the editors Galton and Sach's). Dr. Lacter repeats Dr. Sinason's belief that the security services and military are chock-full of child-abusing satanists. Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder though is a hugely useful book, and is again recommended by this site; initially identifying organisations with a bent towards belief in the SRA Myth becomes relatively easy - simply check their online 'Recommended Books' and see if Forensic' is amongst them. In some quarters the tome is regarded as a serious piece of work, though it is unlikely a genuine professional will be able to 'swallow the camel' (a term a web site uses as its title for instances when you really have to go a long way to take in some unsubstantiated beliefs.)
  
  

  Many ritual abuse survivors report that other abuser groups with criminal, political, military, and espionage agendas infiltrate their familial cults to gain access to these readily programmable children to use them to serve their own agendas, often paying cult parents large sums of money to be able to program these children.

  (Source: Mind Control: Simple to Complex, by Ellen P. Lacter, page 189, Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr).
  
  But Dr. Lacter doesn't end there. She describes how the likes of the CIA perform their nefarious schemes, torturing children;
  
  

  The child may be tortured on or in a device, and the personalities formed in this process then perceive themselves trapped on or in this device. Alternatively, an image of an object may be projected on the child's body or on a screen or in virtual-reality goggles, or a physical model of the object may be shown. The programmer then tells the child that this device or object is now within him or her. Because the mind of the small child does not easily discriminate reality from fantasy (this process relies, in part on the pre-school child's stage of magical thinking), the child now perceives the object as a structure within. Immediately after the structure is installed, the programmer will generally command traumatised personalities to go to places in the structures-for example, "Go inside the grid." The programmer will generally also install the perception of wires, bombs, and reset buttons, to prevent removal of the structure. The child is usually shown something to make him or her perceive these as real-for example, wires placed on body parts and a button on the belly-button. Program triggers, cues, and access codes are also installed, to gain future access to the structure and to programmed personalities. This permits the programmer to install, change, and erase commands, messages, and information and to retrieve information, all out of victims' conscious awareness. An erase code for the structure is also installed to allow the programmer to later erase a defective, outdated, or unwanted structure. I have witnessed survivors from distant geographical areas report the identical erase code for the same structure.

  (Source: Mind Control: Simple to Complex, by Ellen P. Lacter, page 190-191, Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder edited by Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton, 2008. Series editor Brett Kahr).
  
  If perhaps there was any lingering doubt in Dr. Lacter's willingness to project an image of pure looniness - and a vicious looniness at that, then her own personal websites easily dispel that. Unlike other SRA Myth advocates, she gets to go out and actually pursue her obsessions, in addition to writing and talking of Satanists in the CIA and elsewhere. Although a Satan-hunter, she is primarily a Witch-Hunter, and perhaps America's genuine Witch-finder General, a role assumed in the UK by Beatrix Campbell (OBE) but now shared between Valerie Sinason and Dr. Joan Coleman, the founder of RAINS. Dr. Lacter's weekend hikes in the beautiful surroundings of Diego County, California, provide a good opportunity to hunt for sites she describes as well-camouflaged witchcraft ritual altars, so well-camouflaged that its takes a huge effort to follow Dr. Lacter's line-of-reasoning.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dr. Lacter accompanies her revelations with a written commentary of her investigations;
  
  

  Memories of Witchcraft ritual abuse, the personalities affected by these abuses, and Witchcraft programming, are almost always buried more deeply in the unconscious mind than the memories, personalities, and programming associated with Satanic ritual abuse and abuse by groups with political/military agendas. The abusive methods used by Witchcraft affect the psyche and spirit more profoundly, and block memory more effectively. In many cases of ritual abuse, one of the survivors parents (and the lineage on that side) was involved in Satanism, and the other parent (and lineage) was involved in Witchcraft. The side practicing Witchcraft will likely know everything that is happening on the Satanist side, but the Satanist side will not understand very much of what the Witchcraft side is doing. These pictures are posted here to expose abusive Witchcraft to the light of day, with the goal of helping ritual abuse survivors overcome the effects of Witchcraft ritual abuse. Witches would have chosen this site as a ritual site because it contains a number of features they view as holy. Note that the photographs of the oblong ring of rocks (about 26 feet in length) include a trifurcated tree, or three trees that have grown together. The number three is sacred in witchcraft. Such a tree would be considered sacred, thus the ring of rocks constructed around it.

  (Source: From Abusive Witchcraft 'Sacred Ground' End Ritual Abuses, by Dr. Ellen P. Lacter)
  
  As it is, Dr. Lacter's photographs of the 'witchcraft ritual site' is rather a burned-out area of Scripps Ranch, in North County San Diego. Apparently firefighters had moved some 'thins' (small trees/brush) out of their way when attending to a residential fire in the past.
  
  An interview conducted by Dr. Ellen P. Lacter of 'survivor' Trish Fotheringham provides another pointer to her dedication to the SRA Myth (this is also linked-to on the first page of this Index entry);
  
  
  
  How did Dr. Ellen P. Lacter's essay make it into Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder? Bizarrely enough even her paranoias are matched by other contributors in the book, and so don't seem too much out-of-place. The editors Graeme Galton and Adah Sachs seem convinced in her beliefs in CIA/military-driven satanic ritual abuse and torture. Adah Sachs has collaborated with Dr. Lacter in the US, so is familiar with her witch-hunting exploits and beliefs. As the editors seemed determined to produce a book specifically designed to embarrass 'forensic psychotherapy' - ensuring the term is forever associated with the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' element in British psychotherapy, then they should be credited with having achieved their goal.
  
  Much of the SRA Myth advocacy in the US is concerned with determining that US military personnel and members of the security services are routine torturers and committers of atrocities. Dr. Lacter herself presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, with her seminar Torture-based Mind Control: Psychological Mechanisms of Installation and Continued Control for one-and-a-half hours on Monday 18th October 2010. In addition to Dr. Lacter, Dr. Colin A. Ross, no stranger himself to being an (occasional) advocate for the SRA Myth, and the idea that the CIA are chock-full of satanic child sex abusers, attended and spoke on the 'prestigious' plenary panel. Other talks included, under the 'Paper Session for War & Torture' Development of an Online Screening and Prevention Program for United States Army Personnel Returning from Deployment, Unmaking the Torturer: Re-Establishing Meaning and Identity after Committing Atrocities, Entering the Abyss: Countertransference in Working with Torturers and Clinical Management of Military Sexual Trauma, all intent on labelling the US military as being the primary source of satanic crimes against children. Leading ISSTD member and long-time SRA Myth proponent Dr. Richard Kluft, is with Dr. Lacter, the most vocal is their committed belief equating of the US military as a haven for satanists.
  
  In the US it has become routine for SRA Myth-believing psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists to refer to Homeland security personnel fighting in Afghanistan as being under the control of the Illuminati and of taking part in satanic rites. Interestingly the British book publisher, Taylor & Francis, a division of the Informa PLC, who also own Routledge, Dr. Sinason's publisher, 'sponsored' the ISSTD Conference refreshment break on Saturday 16th October 2010 (see Peter Rigby) presumably because Informa PLC has a substantial investment in books advocating for the SRA Myth.
  
  In the US, the ISSTD (the "T" for Trauma is a new addition) is the focal point for SRA Myth advocacy, with, as the Conference schedule makes clear, a belief in Mind Control being performed by the military/security services, being a central theme.
  
  Another key figure in the ISSTD is Bessel van der Kolk M.D. Dr. Bennett Braun, perhaps the most famous of therapists/psychiatrists to have been found guilty of systematic abuse of women under his care during the Recovered Memory Therapy craze of the 1990s, was a founder.
  
  The influence of the ISSTD on the image of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy in the US can't be easily ignored. Through its work, much of it dedicated to "dissing" the US military and security services, whilst promoting techniques and beliefs that many struggle to believe-in in the 21st century, the 'head doctor' professions have received a rough time.
  
  Martha A. Churchill, an attorney and President of the Michigan Association for Responsible Mental Health Practices pointed-out the manner in which the professions have gone off a cliff;
  
  

  This psychiatrist tries to cure mental illness with eye wiggles. He says that memory of childhood abuse is stored in the hips, elbows, and toes. And he wants to bill health insurers for his services, the same as other medical doctors, a concept called "parity." The eye-wiggle doctor, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is slated as the featured speaker for a professional seminar in Livonia this February. His therapies, euphemistically described as "innovative," are touted in the current newsletter of the Michigan Psychiatric Society under the heading, "Mark your calendars." Van der Kolk serves as a professor at Boston University, but that is not a big credential. Another psychiatrist, John Mack, convinces his patients that they were sexually molested by aliens aboard UFO's, and he is a tenured professor at Harvard. Lots of crazy fads circulate these days among mental health professionals, and even the most respected professional organizations do nothing about it. The legislature should not grant "parity" to mental health providers who could use these fraudulent treatments on unsuspecting patients. The van der Kolk program is sponsored by the Trauma and Dissociation Study Group of Southeast Michigan. The name sounds respectable, but these people specialise in the treatment of MPD, or multiple personality disorder. MPD adherents claim that the illness results from severe childhood trauma, especially torture by witches. The Michigan study group has a web site at www.traumahelp.org, where a list of members indicates they are concentrated in Royal Oak. The group boasts about being a chapter of the national ISSD, International Society for the Study of Dissociation. The ISSD works hard to make witch hunts respectable in mental health circles throughout the US and Canada. ... Keeping score of fraudulent mental health methods is a big job. I sat in on a seminar in Ann Arbor for mental health professionals where child sex abuse was given as the cause of just about every mental illness. It was the third in a series of seminars in Michigan for therapists, giving them continuing education credits. The speaker opinioned that schizophrenia is a diagnosis to ignore, except for insurance billing purposes. Treat everyone as a victim of childhood sex abuse, she added, and check for "body memories" to gain additional history about the patient's childhood. I sat next to two social workers from Community Mental Health of Washtenaw County, who took lots of notes. They may have actually believed the nonsense they were hearing, since mental health professionals pass these tales around without any interference from professional societies. Should psychiatrists and other mental health providers get equal pay for their treatment methods? Let's wait until they clean the junk science out of their closets. Meanwhile, parity should apply only for mental health treatments scientifically proven to be safe and effective.

  (Source: Junk Science Invades Psychiatry by Martha A. Churchill, The Detroit News, Friday, January 7, 2000)
  
  Skeptics might wonder how on earth the CIA and MI5's army of mind-controlled slaves are controlled. Dr. Lacter explains that it is all done with toll-free telephone calls. Other perhaps obvious questions are how is it none of the mind-controlled CIA assassins have been tasked to eliminate Dr. Sinason and her ilk, or how on earth the satanic mind-controlling forces ever allow anyone to escape their clutches? This though is variously explained as being because around the age of 30, many (almost exclusively white, middle-class) women find that the mind-control 'wears off' leaving them distraught. Only often after extensive and expensive therapy (often paid-for by the NHS in the UK) will the women be subsequently told by their therapists they have been subjected to ritual abuse at the hands of Illuminati mind-controllers, on some occasions from the CIA and MI5. This is turn will lead to many years of expensive therapy to 'de-program' the former slave, ridding her of all traces of the security services nefarious structures.
  
  As a 'play therapist' Dr. Lacter would probably find it impossible to keep her paranoid beliefs in the SRA Myth and her conviction that everything is the fault of the CIA from her normal work. As it is, American psychologists, just like physicians, are subject to ratings, principally because they have to run or be part of a business. Dr. Lacter gets some glowing reviews, such as;
  
  

  Ellen Lacter is an excellent doctor. I would highly recommend her. She is very experienced, an excellent psychologist, and is considered an expert in her field.

  
  
  Not all reviews though are similarly gushing;
  
  

  This woman manipulated me, conned me, lied to me, attempted to give me DID, gladly took heaps of my time and money, and what did I get in return? She made a 100% illegal, unwarranted CPS call on my former best friend, and because of that, I am now being stalked for life by people Ms. Lacter claimed she wanted to help me escape from!!! And by the way, her illegal CPS report was found to be baseless, since my former friend is not a child abuser. Ellen Lacter is greedy, phoney, in love with herself, and a horrible excuse for a human being let alone therapist- more like TheRapist of your wallet and mind. She did the exact opposite of what she promised, I AM NOW BEING GANG STALKED FOR LIFE DIRECTLY DUE TO A CRIME SHE COMMITTED! She also typically started my appointments late, yet would not allow me a simple 5 minutes after my own was up when I had waited 15 minutes after it was supposed to start. This woman gladly destroyed my life and had no remorse about any of it. She is evil.

  (Source: both quotes from Insiderpages - anonymous and unattributed/unverified recommendations - Dr. Ellen P. Lacter
  
  

  The Institutions of psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy/psychoanalysis & the SRA Myth

  
  
  

  psychotherapy/psychoanalysis

  Dr. Sinason, though perhaps the most vocal, isn't by any means the only member of the British psychiatric and psychology professions to profess a True Belief in the SRA Myth. As discussed previously, obsessions with the 'Myth have dogged the two disciplines for over two decades, and still exert a stranglehold on both. Psychotherapy/analysis, principally from the psychology camp but still with a interest in psychiatry is almost utterly dominated by belief in the SRA Myth on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed it is nigh impossible to find a psychoanalyst who expresses opposition to the belief that a worldwide conspiracy of satanists, led by security services such as MI5 and the CIA, routinely sexually abuse children in an effort to create an army of mind-controlled human robots. Even with that, numerous psychotherapists and psychoanalysts profess believes in concepts and myths that ordinary citizens have to take a deep breath to even read of, up to and exceeding advocating that aliens routinely kidnap individuals.
  
  As concern with psychoanalysis has increased amongst the general populaces of the US and UK, then the harder it has become for such individuals with the job title to find a way into the lucrative business of being 'expert' witnesses in a criminal court. During the 1980s defence lawyers (barristers) found it increasingly easy to rip psychoanalysts apart - not least because the various strands of the profession, pro-and-anti Freud were so at odds with one another. In response psychoanalysts have increasingly moved to acting as expert witnesses in the Family Court system, principally because the inherent secrecy, the lapse rules of evidence, the acceptance of conjecture and often wild opinion are allowed, if not encouraged. The Family Court also allows psychotherapists to exercise their personal prejudices in an extensive manner, free of the burdens of peer review and professional censure.
  
  As an adult psychoanalyst and child psychotherapist, Dr. Sinason occupies a role in a profession that is regarded by many with serious mistrust. Psychiatry, the study and treatment of human psychiatric illnesses, is in a process of transformation in the early 21st century, thanks to advances in genetics and neuroscience. Accordingly psychiatry is seen as a 'hard science' - a genuine scientific subject. Yet even as many of its practitioners strive to be regarded as a 'serious' professionals, there are many, notably in the US who appear to all they can to bring the discipline into disrepute, rendering it a laughing stock.
  
  Psychology is not some branch of psychiatry, and is in reality a different beast altogether. Although there are some attempts at relating neuroscience findings about the impact of trauma on children and adults and their subsequent personality changed, psychology is still regarded by many ads not really being a 'science' at all. Psychology, attempting to always catch-up with psychiatry, itself struggling by individuals willing to shoot the profession in the foot, employs reasoning and cognitive analysis to study the conscious and unconscious human mind.
  
  The greatest influence on psychology was Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) who had initially pursued a career in neurology and psychiatry. Freud's influence is huge in psychoanalysis, enabling the psychoanalyst is free to interpret a clients dreams, fantasies, dreams, free associations and fears. The idea is that confronted with the source of their psychological difficulties, the psychoanalyst can guide the patient to a satisfactory resolution. The actual process of counselling is called psychotherapy, so in reality all psychoanalysts are by default psychotherapists.
  
  A key feature of psychotherapy/psychoanalysis is that neither 'profession' is formerly regulated, and any regulation is voluntary. Whilst psychiatry is regulated in the UK, by means of all psychiatrists requiring a minimum of a medial degree (and therefore being subject to the General Medical Council - GMC), three organisations perform a voluntary role for psychotherapists/analysts in the UK; the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC - formerly the British Confederation of Psychotherapists). In addition, to confuse matters even more there are many smaller professional bodies and associations such as the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and the British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP) who play a small but important role in ensuring that the activities of their members are effectively unregulated by any definition of the word.
  
  A (generally) comprehensive list of the associations, councils and colleges a psychotherapist in the UK can join (if they wish) is shown below. Inside many of groups are dozens of associations, covering peculiar and specific forms of therapy, and/or regional designations;
  
  
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• UK Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (UKRCP)
• British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
• British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
• College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT)
• College of Psychoanalysts-UK (CP-UK)
• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
• British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP)
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  In 2010 and early 2011, discussions were taking place between some of the primary psychotherapy associations and the Health Professionals Council (HPC) with a view to bringing the psychotherapy profession under the HPC. The discussion took in a wide range of views, ranging from enthusiasm, to distinct opposition. Not all of the associations were inclined to take part.
  
  Psychotherapy's fear of regulation is perhaps understandable - the profession is riddled with SRA Myth believers and can't shake off the constant criticism that it isn't really a proper profession, and certainly not a scientific one - more a means for personal prejudices to find a well-paid home. In response to the HPC's proposals the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) chair Professor Andrew Samuels, who is hugely opposed to regulation by the HPC, produced a document suggesting the HPC's system of 'fitness to practise' wasn't capable of the task.
  
  Unfortunately Professor Samuel's document, seemingly authored with others and quoted extensively at here was rambling drivel, of the very kind that critics routinely associate with psychotherapy. The document itself can be found at The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy’s Critique of HPC’s Fitness To Practise System.
  
  The document was so poorly written, it even prompted HPC chief executive Marc Seale to write;
  
  

  I have carefully read the 21 page document. I am most disappointed by its quality. My first reaction was to draft a line-by-line repost to the many misconceptions, errors and gobbledegook contained in the document. However, given the quality of the document this would have been a lengthy and potentially time-consuming task.

  (Source: Regulation of Psychotherapy: HPC calls UKCP critique “gobbledegook”, posting by Zarathustra, on July 6th, 2010, mental Nurse web site)
  
  A posting on the Mental Nurse forum Regulation of Psychotherapy: More on the leaked UKCP document in May 2010, revealed pressing reasons why the UKCP and those inclined to the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' tendency in the psychotherapy profession in the UK have a fear of regulation; it would open-up them up to much scrutiny concerning their obsessions with Recovered Memory Therapy, the SRA Myth and alien abduction.
  
  

  On pages 5 and 6 of the document the authors take issue with the structure of HPC hearings. They don’t like the fact that the hearings are conducted in public. They don’t like the HPC being able to continue with a hearing if the complainant withdraws their complaint. What particularly grabbed my attention is that they don’t like third parties being able to make a complaint. (extract from The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy’s Critique of HPC’s Fitness To Practise System This situation is made even more difficult by the HPC definition of a ‘service user’ as anyone who is affected by the practice of a registrant: relatives, carers and spouses thus become encompassed within the term ‘service user’. It is well-known that someone doing a therapy may make important changes in their relationships with those close to them, and that such changes are not always welcomed by the other party: distancing, divorce or dispute are not always easily tolerated. HPC’s framework would encourage complaints by those who believe that such changes are somehow due to the malign influence of the therapist, whatever the view of the client him or herself. Even if the therapist is exonerated, great damage will be done by the time the complaint is heard. To give an example, it appears that, encouraged by the False Memory Society (see the discussion on their website at http://www.bfms.org.uk/Image_Assets/Members%20on%20Regulation.pdf), people who say they have been falsely accused of abuse are planning to bring third party complaints against their alleged victims’ therapists to HPC. HPC’s decision as to a registrant’s fitness to practise will effectively become an adjudication as to the validity of the abuse claims. Whatever the truth of the abuse allegations, the alleged victims would be further traumatised by such a public process. [p. 6] (end of extract) I wasn’t aware of this until I read the link quoted above, but it seems the British False Memory Society (BFMS) have been taking an interest in the proposed HPC regulation. False memory syndrome has caused enormous damage. It involves fictitious memories, usually of childhood abuse, sometimes of wacky things like satanic ritual abuse and alien abduction, being generated in peoples’ minds by therapists using hypnosis, guided imagery and suggestion to look for “repressed memories”. The result has been false allegations, families ripped apart and in some cases innocent people going to prison for abuse they didn’t commit. The BFMS document states: (extract from The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy’s Critique of HPC’s Fitness To Practise System It is not known if the HPC has much experience of dealing with complaints received from third party family members and certainly complaints about the influence of poor or unproven therapeutic practice will be new to them. Most of the therapy umbrella bodies have, in recent years, operated a complaints procedure under a voluntary code of regulation and it appears that in 99% of cases, third party complaints are rejected on the grounds that they can only handle complaints from direct recipients of the therapy. When the HPC assumes the role of regulating psychotherapists and counsellors the Council’s practise and policy could benefit enormously if BFMS members can to write to them, under the current public consultation process, to explain the damage caused to the family by a therapeutic process and how they have been denied any way of raising their concerns. (end of extract) It’s not hard to read between the lines of what they’re hinting at here. People wrongly accused of abuse due to false memory syndrome have tried to complain against the therapists who ruined their lives, and been told, “Sorry, you can’t complain, because you’re not the client.” They’ve noticed that if the HPC regulation comes in, they’ll suddenly be allowed to make the complaint they’ve previously been denied, and they’re itching to unleash a can of Fitness to Practise whoop-ass. I’d imagine that if there are any therapists out there who’ve gone digging for “repressed memories” with hypnosis and leading questions, some of them might suddenly find themselves feeling rather nervous. But of course, as the UKCP document explains, they’re merely concerned that, “the alleged victims would be further traumatised by such a public process.” Yes, of course. That’s what they’re worried about.

  (Source: The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy’s Critique of HPC’s Fitness To Practise System, posting by zarathustra, Mental Nurse web site May 3rd 2010
  
  An example of how SRA Myth True Believers can hide in the British psychotherapy industry can be found in one of Dr. Sinason's latest books published by Informa PLC (through its Routledge imprint) - the 2nd edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (November 2010). The book brings the 'gang' comprising of Dr. Sinason and Associates of her Clinic for Dissociative Studies back together again in written form, together with some other leading lights of SRA Myth advocacy. Adah Sachs contributed As Thick as Thieves, or: the Ritual Abuse Family – an Attachment Perspective on a Forensic Relationship, Graeme Galton presented Dissociation Sounds More Scientific and Brett Kahr, series editor for Karnac Books (as working at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies) adds his Multiple Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia: an Interview with Professor Flora Rheta Schreiber, known famously for her 1973 book Sybil, which is the core originating text for religious fundamentalists, feminists and even secular belief in Multiple Personality Disorder. In late 2010 Debbie Nathan's meticulously-researched Sybil Exposed did precisely what the title suggested - exposing Schreiber's work to have been an extensive hoax.
  
  'External' contributors to Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder include Sue Richardson, most famous for being the social worker who chose to support Dr. Marietta Higgs in the infamous Cleveland RAD Scandal of 1987 that saw over 120 children removed and subsequently (but legally) abused by paediatricians using pseudoscience. Dr. Joan Coleman, founder member of RAINS and the author of the famous essay Satanic cult practices in Dr. Sinason's 1994 Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse contributed Dissociative Disorders: Recognition within Psychiatry and RAINS. Dr. Felicity De Zulueta emphasises belief in the SRA Myth in NHS institutions with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociation: The Traumatic Stress Service In The Maudsley Hospital.
  
  For perhaps obvious reasons the essays contributed to Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder weren't previously contributed to peer-reviewed journals.
  
  The UKCP's somewhat clear belief in the SRA Myth was underlined in it's granting of Associate Status to the IPD - Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability, comprising of a large number of SRA Myth devotees, in late 2009 (see The Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability).
  
  One psychotherapy institute - the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) has also demonstrated amply why extensive regulation and close supervision of psychotherapists is required, in this case openly promoting and advertising one of the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' seminars featuring the extraordinary Dr. Ellen P. Lacter, Dr. Sinason herself, plus Sue Richardson, Adah Sachs and Graeme Galton.
  
  
  Lay readers and non-'shit-house-rat-crazy' psychotherapists might wonder why the Association of Child Psychotherapists chose to advertise an event with devoted and genuine Witch-Hunter Dr. Ellen P. Lacter as keynote speaker?
  
  Members of the Association of Child Psychotherapists include those who act as "experts" in the English and Welsh secretive Family Court system. It isn't certain why the ACP has taken the line of being clear advocates for the SRA Myth, together with its Mind Control element - but during a time when the professionalism (and sanity) of its members was under scrutiny, certainly by the HPC, it certainly manages to make a case for itself to be wound-down and extinguished.
  
  In 2012 the fear of regulation of the psychotherapy industry in the UK by some of its practitioners coalesced into the form of a book from leading conspiracy-theory publisher Karnac Books, who routinely publishes books maintaining paranoid obsessions by its authors under the guise of the 'psychotherapy/psychiatry' moniker.
  
  Regulation in Action: The Health Professions Council Fitness to Practise Hearing of Dr Malcolm Cross - Analysis, History, and Comment by psychoanalyst Janet Haney (Karnac Books, January 2012) was written to draw attention to the threat of regulation by the HPC, a subject that fills many psychotherapists with fear, not least because their efforts to promote 'shit-house-rat-crazy' conspiracy theories may be challenged through professional regulation.
  
  
  Janet Harney's volume was written around a HPC FPC (Fitness-to-Practise) hearing against psychologist Dr. Malcolm Cross. The hearing, involving a number of allegations, some sexual in nature, found that the practitioner has no case to answer. Psychotherapists though seized upon the case as being definitive evidence that State regulation of the psychotherapy profession in Britain would lead to abuse by the State. Perhaps somewhat strangely, some elements in the psychotherapy profession had determined themselves to be beacons against repression and State regulation.
  
  In January 2012, the very month of publication for Regulation in Action: The Health Professions Council Fitness to Practise Hearing of Dr Malcolm Cross - Analysis, History, and Comment, Karnac Books published Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control edited by Canadian psychologist and conspiracy theorist Dr. Alison Miller, under the moniker of being a genuine psychotherapy volume. This latest conspiracy-theory book from Karnac perhaps emphasised the need for strict regulation of the profession of psychotherapy, not least because of the professions tendency to promote obsessions derived from extreme far-right sources.
  
  Healing the Unimaginable - Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control - Karnac Books 2012
  
  Further detail about Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control can be found in the section discussing another Karnac Books conspiracy-theory volume, published in March 2011 - Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs
  
  It wouldn't though be correct to single out the Association of Child Psychotherapists or the UKCP alone as being the key professional bodies that promotes the SRA Myth in 2011. The ACP is an associate member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). The Council comprises a number of other Institutes and Associations, emphasising how difficult it is to impose professional standards on the 'industry'. These are listed here and include the British Association of Psychotherapists, The Institute of Psychoanalysis / British Psychoanalytical Society, The Lincoln Clinic and Centre for Psychotherapy, The London Centre for Psychotherapy, North of England Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, and The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, which in the past was the leading psychotherapy institution promoting belief in the 'Myth (see .
  
  The British Psychoanalytic Council has, even though it seems vital for the Council and it's member Associates to demonstrate to the public, other professions, and in particular the Government and HPC that the profession is genuinely free of its 'shit-house-rat' crazy element, no hesitation in promoting the SRA Myth through its official web site. In this case through the promotion of DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder, which Dr. Sinason has stated in writing is predominantly caused by satanic ritual abuse;
  
  
  
  It is perhaps for the likes of the BPC's membership associations (other than presumably the Association of Child Psychotherapists for sure) and the senior staff of HPC (Health Professions Council) to question why the BPC promotes the SRA Myth.
  
  It would though not be accurate or correct to say that every psychotherapy/psychoanalysis institution is obsessed with the promotion in one form of another with the promotion of the SRA Myth. The The Institute of Psychoanalysis makes every effort to avoid any reference to the 'Myth and presents itself in a professional fashion. The Institute of Psychotherapy (it can be hard to keep up with all the different institutional names) has excised its references to SRA Myth-promoting events.
  
  Others though, in addition to the BPC itself and The Association of Child Psychotherapists, such as BPC Associate member WPF Therapy, established in 1969 to provide range of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic trainings including training in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy, feels no constraint in not only promoting the SRA Myth, but also actually sponsoring the lectures; this one previously detailed through the ACP advertisement, at the Religious Society of Friends, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
  
  
  
  WPF declares to the world through its web site that it work(s) through a network of 28 centres in London and across England. We see over 15,000 clients a year suggesting that the only rigorous oversight and regulation will oversight.
  
  Another organisation, existing in the shadowy ground between 'charity' and a genuine business concern is Cambridgeshire Consultancy in Counselling, located at Cambridge Regional College, on the Science Park Campus, Cambridge. Their 'mission' is both provide counselling but also to "train counsellors to professional standards" for which on some courses a CPD (Certificate of Professional Development) provided.
  
  Cambridgeshire Consultancy in Counselling has also determined that the next generation of British psychotherapists be fully conversant with the SRA Myth. On May 7th 2011, Dr. Sinason will be running one of her regular efforts to persuade more that Dissociation is rife. Although keeping the words "Ritual Abuse" out of the description, it seems unlikely that a course entitled "Dissociative States and Child Abuse" presented by Dr. Sinason will avoid promoting the SRA Myth in all its glory.
  
  
  
  
  The course, and the others detailed provide a likely clue to the future of British psychotherapy, as it merges, seemingly willingly and enthusiastically, with the David Icke paranoid conspiracy-theory industry. This may leads to the possibility, not entirely unlikely, that future attendance of a David Icke seminar will lead to the issuing of a CPC (Certificate of Professional Development), such is the manner that the beliefs underpinning British psychotherapy now echo much of those of Mr. Icke himself.
  
  Just how much belief in the SRA Myth there is amongst British psychotherapists rather than their professional institutions is obviously hard-to-determine. The number of courses advertised suggests that at least a sizeable minority either are True Believers or have at least attended a seminar or conference on the subject. Belief in the SRA Myth permeates throughout British psychotherapy, burdening it, together with it's opposition to homosexuality, with the label that it's practitioners are little more than witchdoctors (or indeed witch-hunters on occasions).
  
  Clare Slaney is a Pagen Chaplain, a psychotherapist and a feminist - a difficult mix of beliefs and occupations, particularly as many feminists colluded and continued to collude with religious fundamentalists in their commitment to the SRA Myth (Pagen's are routinely associated with Satanists in their eyes). She provides an insight into how trainee psychotherapists are introduced to the SRA Myth, perhaps through what Cambridgeshire Consultancy in Counselling refer to as a desire to "train counsellors to professional standards". (Note Chaplain Slaney does reference this Web site in some of her blog entries).
  
  

  During my training as a psychotherapist we endured 2, two hour sessions with a woman who described sexual abuse and Satanic abuse in frothing detail. The class clearly experienced trauma, people were weeping in each others arms at the end of her descriptions of systematic forced abortions and child torture for the purpose of Satanic ritual. She gave us all her contact details so we could arrange therapy privately with her if we needed it. She dismissed all questions with a statement along the lines of, “You need to decide if you’re an abuser, if you’ve been abused yourself, if you want to do anything about abusers or just leave children to be sexually tortured to death.”

  (Source: Pagan Chaplaincy: The Depths of Human Darkness, by Clare Slaney on her blog. Posted 8th March 2011)
  
  The comments following the blog entry do provide some comfort for psychotherapy in the UK; suggesting that there does exist those amongst it aware of the challenge facing the profession.
  
  

  The regulation of psychotherapy

  Genuine psychologists, encompassing a number of disciplines, are regulated through various means. 'Practitioner' psychologists, which encompasses most of the job titles are formerly regulated by the Health Professions Council (HPC) and subject to the same rules and ethical disciplines as other professionals under the HPC's remit.
  
  Being a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst is considerably easier and professionally more secure than being a regulated psychologist, and an awful lot easier than pursuing a career as a psychiatrist.
  
  Being unregulated, the professions of psychotherapist/psychoanalyst attract many varied types of individuals to it. Because it is the role of the psychoanalyst to interpret a clients 'self' - the personal beliefs, including religious, gender or political dogmas of the analyst can influence the eventual interpretation of the clients need for corrective psychotherapy and the nature (and length, and cost) of that therapy.
  
  The impact of the hopeless lack of formal discipline and regulation, particularly in the UK, has enabled the growth of psychotherapists to cater for all needs, and even all prejudices. Through psychotherapy, extremist religious, feminist, and misogynistic tendencies amongst the professionals themselves are able to flourish. Psychologists and psychiatrists can equally vulnerable to such failing, but at the risk of being struck off by the GMC or HPC.
  
  In February 2010, Patrick Strudwick for The Independent newspaper infiltrated the strange world of the psychotherapists and even some psychiatrists and possibly psychologists working in Britain who consider homosexuality to be a mental illness. His investigation had been prompted by the release of a report Professor Michael King of University College London, that one in six UK psychiatrists and psychotherapists have sought to reduce or change a patient's sexual orientation;
  
  

  My investigation began last spring, shortly after King's report was published, when an evangelical group held a conference in a central London church for therapists wanting to learn how to "reorient" their patients. I wanted to know who these therapists were, what happened during the treatment, and what effect it would have on the recipient. I posed as a potential client wanting to be cured. Two hulking security guards search me on my way in. Inside, there are two large lecture halls with more than 100 delegates. They are mostly men; they seem subdued, waiting for the show to start. Tables at the back of the hall display books on how to make people heterosexual. The keynote speaker is Dr Joseph Nicolosi, an American psychologist and the author of some of the movement's core texts. He is the founder of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), one of the biggest international conversion organisations. He has a cropped beard and wears a crisp suit. "Homosexual behaviour is always prompted by loneliness," he tells the rapt audience with big gestures and a dramatic voice, "It's a pathology, a struggle to connect with the male identity." His thesis is faintly Freudian: a distant father and an overbearing mother create deep wounds in a child, which lead to homosexuality. He speaks about the work at his own Californian conversion clinic. "We advise fathers, 'If you don't hug your sons, some other man will.' We train the mothers to back off.'" During the lunch break gay protesters gather outside the venue, kept back by a police cordon. I can hear the din of the chanting and the whistle-blowing. The organisers advise us to stay inside. I approach a psychiatrist, David, who had earlier asked a question from the floor, to see if he will treat me for my homosexuality. David tells me he runs a clinic which helps men "reach their heterosexual potential". He won't treat lesbians. "I have resolved my own sexuality," he says, explaining that he is now married with children, and gives me his business card: it reads, "I took the road less travelled." David points out a female psychotherapist who also practices conversion therapy, so I go over and introduce myself – I call myself Matthew. She looks homely and her hair is greying. Her name is Lynne. She too gives me her business card. She is a fully accredited member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP), the largest of the psychotherapy bodies. (Patrick Strudwick covertly records psychotherapist 'Lynne' for a session) I have a dictaphone taped to my stomach as I arrive at Lynne's large house, north of London. She had told me beforehand that she would charge me £40 per session and that she always prayed at the beginning and end of the sessions. I'm shown into a spacious living room. "I love my work and in particular this whole area of SSA [same sex attraction]," she says, as we sit down. "It's such an important area to work in." She has a wholesome face and the suburban air of someone who, when not trying to convert you to heterosexuality, would probably be rustling up a jolly good Victoria sponge. Like those at the conference, she doesn't say "gay"; she only uses the term "SSA". I ask how she views homosexuality – as a mental illness, an addiction or an anti-religious phenomenon? "It's all of that," she replies. And then we pray. "Oh Father, we give you permission to work in Matthew's life to bring complete light and healing into every part of his being." After asking God to heal me, she opens her eyes. "I know the boundaries to keep within," she says.

  (Source: The ex-gay files: The bizarre world of gay-to-straight conversion, by Patrick Strudwick, The Independent, 1st February 2010)
  
  In January 2011 it was revealed through a disciplinary hearing conducted by BACP that 'Lynne' was in fact British psychotherapist Lesley Pilkington.
  
  

  Lesley Pilkington60, a psychotherapist for 20 years, faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) after treating a patient who had told her he wanted to be “cured” of his homosexuality. The patient was in fact a prominent homosexual rights campaigner and journalist, who secretly recorded two sessions with Mrs Pilkington, a devout Christian, before reporting her to the BACP. ... In the disciplinary letter sent to Mrs Pilkington, she is accused by BACP of “praying to God to heal him [Strudwick] of his homosexuality”. She is also accused of having an “agenda that homosexuality is wrong and that gay people can change and that you allegedly attempted to inflict these views on him”. Mrs Pilkington told The Sunday Telegraph: “He told me he was looking for a treatment for being gay. He said he was depressed and unhappy and would I give him some therapy. “I told him I only work using a Christian biblical framework and he said that was exactly what he wanted.” She estimates that in the past decade she has offered the SOCE method to about one patient a year, lasting typically about a year. “We don’t use the word 'cure’ because it makes it [homosexuality] sound like a disease. We are helping people move out of that lifestyle because they are depressed and unhappy. “We say everybody is heterosexual but some people have a homosexual problem. Nobody is born gay. It is environmental; it is in the upbringing.” The SOCE method involves behavioural, psychoanalytical and religious techniques. Homosexual men are sent on weekends away with heterosexual men to “encourage their masculinity” and “in time to develop healthy relationships with women”, said Mrs Pilkington.

  (Source: The therapist who claims she can help gay men go straight, by Robert Mendrick, The Sunday Telegraph, 16 January 2011
  
  In April 2007, research commissioned by the BACP and conducted by Professor Michael King, Joanna Semlyen, Helen Killaspy, Irvin Nazareth and David Osborn, titled A systematic review of research on counselling and psychotherapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender people determined that one in six therapists see fit to offer gay clients treatments that aim to make them straight.
  
  

  Under the headline ‘British therapists still offer treatments to “cure” homosexuality’, the Guardian reported that a survey (of 1,328 counsellors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists throughout the country) found that 222 practitioners had attempted to change at least one patient/client’s sexual orientation, while 55 said they were still offering the therapy. The fact that some of those practitioners are members of BACP prompted the following response from Phillip Hodson, BACP Fellow and Media Consultant, in the letters page of the Guardian the next day: ‘[BACP] is dedicated to social diversity, equality and inclusivity of treatment without sexual discrimination or judgmentalism of any kind, and it would be absurd to attempt to alter such fundamental aspects of personal identity as sexual orientation by counselling.’ And yet this is what a significant minority of counsellors working in Britain today are still attempting to do. ‘I think it’s probably the tip of the iceberg,’ says Michael King, Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at University College London Medical School, and one of the three scientists responsible for the aforementioned research published in the BMC Psychiatry journal. ‘It was only a small minority, about four per cent, who said that they would treat someone who came and asked for help, but another 10 per cent said they would refer on to someone who would, so it looked like about 14 per cent thought it was an appropriate thing to do.’

  (Source: The gay cure? By John Daniel, Therapy Today - The Online Magazine For Counsellors and Psychotherapists - references in article removed)
  
  In such circumstances, with fundamentalist views towards homosexuality rife within the psychotherapy and counselling professions, an erstwhile belief amongst many practitioners in the SRA Myth probably isn't too much of a surprise.
  
  On 10th December 2010, the unwillingness of the psychotherapy associations to submit to the normal standards of regulation and discipline that professions normally agree-to was amply demonstrated in the English and Welsh High Court. The BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy) who Lynne Pilkington, the gay-converting psychotherapist belongs-to (she was later in May 2011 told to attend 'extensive training and professional development' by the BACP , but not struck-off), reported a preliminary judicial review in its own words, even though the organisation agrees with the concept of regulation;
  
  

  On Friday 10 December 2010 at 11am a Judicial Review permission hearing took place at the Royal Courts of Justice, brought by six psychotherapy and psychoanalytic practitioner groups to challenge proposals for the regulation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis by the Health Professions Council (HPC). The case was made on four interwoven points: That HPC was acting ultra vires and unlawfully in making its recommendation to the Department of Health as it had not consulted on the primary task of whether or not psychotherapy and counselling did in fact require regulation That the HPC made its decision and recommendations in breach of its stated commitment to investigate whether counsellors and psychotherapists needed regulating. That the HPC did not take account of all relevant considerations and how the profession met the HPC's own criteria for regulation. That the HPC unfairly cancelled the final PLG meeting and that the PLG was not consulted on the responses to the HPC's consultation. The Barrister for the Claimants, Dinah Rose QC, rejected a suggestion by the Judge that this could be settled by a statement from the HPC to the effect that they were not making decisions but merely recommendations as the executors of a task set out in the White Paper. (There was conflicting documentation in correspondence from the HPC about the task that they had performed.) The Judge also ruled that 'out of time' argument was not applicable in the bringing of the legal action did not apply because of correspondence from the claimants showing that they were not happy with the process was within time and that responses from the HPC did not state accurately the task that they were carrying out. Mr Justice Burton ruled in favour of the claimants. In addition to losing the claim, the HPC was also asked to pay one third of the claimants' legal costs. The case is listed for a full hearing in the Spring.

  (Source: Report of the Judicial Review, extracted from the BACP web site)
  
  In mid-February 2011, the umbrella organisation that co-ordinated psychotherapies fight against regulation, Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy announced that it believed it had won its fight against regulation;
  
  

  The government announced today via a ‘Command Paper’ that currently unregulated professions, including counselling, and psychotherapy, will now NOT be subject to statutory regulation. A system of ‘quality assured voluntary regulation’ will be developed instead under the umbrella of the new Professional Standards Authority (previously CHRE). This means that practitioners will be free to choose whether to join an assured register and that there will be no protected titles.

  (Source: Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy statement)
  
  The decision, though not yet confirmed by the HPC, to let the psychotherapy profession escape regulation, appears to be a victory for its 'shit-house-rat-crazy' faction, particularly for those therapists who feared HPC investigation into their use of Recovered Memory Therapy. In Pages Four and Five this faction, perhaps the 'loudest' element in British psychotherapy, is investigated and discussed.
  
  The passion with which some determined UK psychotherapists have in challenging the professions self-destructive streak has coalesced into one distinct form, with the establishment of INTEGRITY Fashioned initially by Jocelyne Quennell Joanna North, who resigned from the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) after seventeen and eighteen years membership respectively, in protest at the UKCP's stance against regulation by the HPC. Integrity represents perhaps the last best hope for the UK psychotherapy profession seemingly intent on continuing its death spiral plunge.
  
  

  We believe that those who are working with children, families and adults in health, education, social care, private, charity and voluntary sectors need to be trained adequately meeting common threshold standards for education and fulfil requirements for ongoing fitness to practice and continuous professional development. We believe that independent complaints procedures are vital to ensure public protection and that current voluntary regulation is not working in this regard. The name ‘Integrity’ emerged from a vision to integrate psychological therapies more effectively into our society and we are suggesting that this is a matter of social responsibility that requires the transparency and accountability offered by statutory regulation. We believe that the current option for regulation with the Health Professions Council (HPC) represents a real opportunity to engage in a full dialogue about the form and systems of regulation for all psychological therapies. This movement has started to represent those who are often silent for many reasons but are beginning to be willing to stand up for the values and principles embodied in professional statutory regulation.

  (Source: Extract from Welcome to INTEGRITY)
  
  The unwillingness of the BACP and other associations to be regulated correctly was amply demonstrated again with the BACP's roadshow Making Connections which visited several English, Welsh and Scottish towns and cities from April 2010 and is scheduled to finish in Norwich in March 2011. On the 18th October 2010 the show rolled-into York in Northern England, being hosted at the Royal York Hotel. An official BACP event, after a presentation by Heather Dale entitled Can ethics be sexy? (perhaps indicating the BACP attitude to the subject) the Keynote Speaker, introduced by one Anna Hamilton, was none other than Valerie Sinason.
  
  
  
  As the leading psychotherapy association, what do other charities and groups expect BACP to deliver in terms of psychotherapy services?
  
  Well, as far as NAPAC is concerned (a leading SRA Myth-advocacy charity in England and Wales, then BACP provides services to any of the following types of abuse in childhood: Domestic abuse, Sexual Abuse, Ritual Abuse perhaps, through a third-party, confirming the fascination and obsession the organisation has with promoting the SRA Myth at every opportunity and through every means available;
  
  
  
  

  Psychiatry, Psychology and the SRA Myth

  As with psychotherapy/psychoanalysis, finding advocates for the SRA Myth in the UK amongst the 'real' professions is terrifyingly easy, though their numbers are not so high. Although no professional institution for psychology or psychiatry is willing to advertise for SRA Myth courses or seminars, unlike the British Psychoanalysis Council and some of it associate members, there are numerous British psychiatrists and psychologists willingly able to be identified with their belief in the SRA Myth. For psychiatry, Ipswich-based psychiatrist Dr. Iain Kirkland Weir implicated in the Broxtowe Scandal of 1988, began a trend that continues today.
  
  Historically, psychologist Dr. Helga Hanks, previously of Leeds University, was one of the first of her profession in England to be identified as a True Believer.
  
  

  Dr Hanks was a supporter of 'satanic abuse' and a member of the Leeds team that included Drs. Jane Wynne and Christopher Hobbs. Their promotion of the now discredited 'anal dilatation' diagnosis of sexual abuse created havoc and injustice in Cleveland in 1987 when it was applied by Dr Marietta Higgs and others. Ms Saradjian, who has specialised in women as abusers, is also a believer in the 'recovered memory' method of accessing narratives that reinforce her ideology, including her belief in 'satanic abuse.'

  (Source: Landmark decision in the High Court, by Margaret Jervis)
  
  Another psychologist Dr. Jacqui Saradjian, most famous for her part in the Shieldfield Scandal is also an SRA Myth believer.
  
  Other, modern examples are detailed on Page 4 of this entry.
  
  Whilst other psychologists and psychiatrists may profess a belief in the SRA Myth - and anecdotal evidence from numerous parents and single women who encounter the secret family court system in England and Wales - suggest that there are many, their respective professional institutions, unlike psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, stay generally well away from the obsession.
  
  Much of this is explained by a recognition of the dangers of recovered memory therapy by the professions of psychiatry and psychology in the UK. Psychotherapy/psychoanalysis, principally because of support for the SRA Myth amongst its own institutions, seems unwilling to shake off its association with the 'Myth;
  
  

  In Recovered Memory Therapy, the assertion that persons have killed, mutilated and eaten their own or other children has not been subjected to empirical verification. No empirical demonstration has been made that adults can be programmed by clicks or tones. Cult ties to the CIA or aliens have not been demonstrated. Dissociative identity disorder has not been shown to be a reliable diagnosis, nor is there any verification that there is a cause/effect relationship between repressed childhood trauma, especially childhood sexual trauma and DID.

  (Source: Page 87, Recovered Memory Therapy, from The death of psychotherapy: from Freud to alien abductions (2000) by Donald A. Eisner)
  
  Whilst in the US and UK, public broadcasters and investigative TV documentaries like the BBC's Panorama have shied away from tackling the issue of unregulated psychotherapy and its victims, ABC - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation hasn't been frightened of addressing the issues head-on. In April 2010 its showcase documentary magazine series Four Corners which consistently betters anything produced from the US and UK broadcast Over The Edge about unregulated and rogue psychotherapist Matthew Meinck (see also Liz Mullinar).
  
  The full documentary is available for viewing at ABC's home page for Four Corners - Over The Edge.
  
  

  Psychotherapy/psychoanalysis and its submission to David Icke

  The convergence of the views of David Icke and a sizeable minority of the psychotherapy profession - notably those who work with women through the use of Recovered Memory Therapy and even more disturbing, in Child Protection and Family Justice in the UK, is an obvious cause for huge concern.
  
  In the US the manifestation of a belief in government-sponsored Mind Control was displayed with the shooting of American Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford's in Tucson, in mid-January 2011. She was shot and six bystanders killed, including a US judge and a nine-year-old girl, by a lone gunman - 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, a disturbed young man, but a distinct believer in the idea that the US government (through the CIA) employs Mind Control on its citizens.
  
  'Infowars', a web site run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, whose web sites, books and radio shows feed the conspiracy theories of both Left and Right-wing fanatics equally, emphasised such beliefs in their coverage of the subject;
  
  

  The CIA’s use of mind control to create killers is a matter of historical record. MK-ULTRA was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence that came to light in 1975 through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti insists that the program is ongoing and has not been abandoned. Whether or not Jared Lee Loughner acted alone is being investigated by officials. A second suspect in the shootings is still being sought. However, Loughner’s obsession with mind control is confirmed and given the historical connection between such events and the use of Manchurian candidates, nothing can be ruled out at this stage.

  (Source: Arizona Assassin Obsessed with Mind Control)
  
  In the UK, obsessions about Mind Control, driven by David Icke-following conspiracy believers and the psychotherapy profession haven't reached anything like the same explosive (and murderous) ignition point seen in the US. Yet the risk is present that the fantasies promoted by the likes of Valerie Sinason and Ellen Lacter, through British publishers like Informa PLC and Karnak Books - determining that the security services of MI5 and the CIA are stuffed-full of child sex-abusing, mind-controlling satanists - will actually resonate with a mentally-ill adult, provoking an attack on the police or security forces or the British government, or a US Ambassador...This subject is discussed on Page 4 in detail, with particular focus on the Metropolitan Police in London, who suffer the bizarre dichotomy of being enthusiastic collaborators in such obsessions, whilst being the police force whose city hosts the British security organisations MI5 and MI6, and also provides the British security services with the majority of Special Branch (SO15 in the Metropolitan Police) officers to provide an executive function for those very services.
  
  

  The influence of David Icke and Valerie Sinason on child protection policy in Great Britain

  David Icke's influence on child protection and family justice policy in the United Kingdom is generally perceived to be minimal. Although individuals within Government departments or police constabularies may believe the shared vision he and Dr. Sinason are willing to commit-to in writing and in seminars and lectures, there is no known occasion when David Icke has been invited to deliver his views to any official government or associated body.
  
  Despite this, David Icke has on occasions managed to address those outside his immediate 'market' of conspiracy-believing-mainly-young-men. In England, an annual 'Rally Against Child Abuse' is held in August. Responsibility for the organising of the event passes from one organisation to another willing to take responsibility. In 2010 that organisation was the unknown religious then-Facebook-presence-only Cross of Change. As David Icke is a prominent advocate for the SRA Myth, he was invited and the Rally was publicised by other organisations including NAPAC - The National Association for People Abused in Childhood a prominent charity in the UK that is also a leading advocate for the SRA Myth. The demonstration managed the bizarre feat of weaving legitimate concerns about abuse of women, children and families by the secretive Family Court system, with the very mechanisms believed by many to be used to unjustly and incorrectly remove children from families and women - such as 'emotional abuse' and even on rare occasions, the SRA Myth.
  
  
  
  Perhaps surprisingly, a number of child protection-focused charities and organisations attended to listen to David Icke and others, and some seemingly had a thoroughly good time. One of the groups was SRA Myth-advocating Catford (London)-based UK and Eire charity 'One in Four' (the name refers to a statistical lie that one in four children will experience sexual abuse before the age of 18, but the criteria includes teenage girls being wolf-whistled-at) established by current executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O'Gorman;
  
  
  
  The march and rally culminated in London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday 7th August 2010. As expected David Icke was given a platform (one of the lions' plinths in the Square) and delivered a somewhat meandering speech incorporating his bizarre allegations involving dead UK politicians, Mind Control and Satanic Ritual Abuse. An excerpt can be found below. Bill Maloney of 'pie-n'mash' films, a leading SRA Myth and David Icke supporter (who filmed the video below) is a leading supporter of One in Four (see One In Four Supporters).
  
  
  
  The organisation behind the hijacking of the 2010 Rally Against Child Abuse has continued its gestation. Against Child Abuse based in Northampton in the British east midlands, organised by an Emma Clarke - ACA Founder - doesn't disguise its 'shit-house-rat-crazy' conspiracy theory underpinnings - quoting "MKULTRA-tortured and CIA-trained assassin/Walter Mitty" SRA Myth enthusiast Neil Brick's S.M.A.R.T web site as a 'supporting organisation'. The S.M.A.R.T site, chock-full of far-right conspiracy theories about CIA satanic ritual abuse/mind control programming and of course the 'Illuminati' enthusiastically purports that the 'Myth is true, whilst frantically avoiding the difficult issue of why its founder can't be bothered to even try uncovering any satanic ritual abuse with a simple digital camera. Dr. Valerie Sinason is regularly referenced as an authoritative source, though David Icke gets not even a single mention.
  
  
  
  The ACA's next scheduled event was another "UK rally against child abuse", to be held once again at Trafalgar Square, London, in early June 2011, once again combining some legitimate concerns about the UK child protection system, with the "shit-house-rat-crazy" element.
  
  
  
  The ACA scheduled a 5-kilometre The Race Against Child Abuse around a park in Northampton on June 26th 2011 (the web site errors with the year) to fund it's annual 'Rally Against Child Abuse'. It isn't certain if David Icke attended to speak (or run) at either of the events, but the ACA's association with the daft conspiracy theory elements, derived from both the US and UK will probably ensure that its influence remains minor.
  
  In the meantime the 'official" UK Annual March and Rally against Child Sexual Abuse, which perhaps unwisely allowed the ACA to hijack the 2010 event, struggles on, desperately ignoring any reference to the 2010 blunder. The next official rally, absolutely certainly NOT featuring David Icke, once again culminating in Trafalgar Square took place on 10th September 2011. Responsibility for the organisation of this event had been given to the perhaps more legitimate AMSOSA - Adult Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse in the UK. This group though employs some of the 'shit-house-rat-crazy' opposition rhetoric to those mistrustful of the Recovered Memory 'industry', and is 'supported' by the ACA (see Group links and events) suggesting some cross-contamination of the official "UK Annual March and Rally against Child Sexual Abuse" with the David Icke-inspired group.
  
  Other than the 2010 'Rally Against Child Abuse' no other instances when David Icke has directly addressed members of the 'child abuse industry' in the UK can be found.
  
  The same though cannot be said of Dr. Sinason. Her impact and influence on the child protection polices exerted in England and Wales (though nothing is known of Scotland) is by any margin, considerable. The following page of the Entry investigates the nature of this influence, notably on three organisations; The Department of Health for England and Wales, The Bowlby Centre, and as mentioned earlier and the Metropolitan Police, in Great Britain's capital, London.
  
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