Ebook: Healing the Unimaginable; Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Ritual abuse is a complex and intimidating phenomenon for which therapists are totally unprepared, both professionally and personally. Therapists in the USA, Canada, the UK, and elsewhere around the world found themselves listening to horrifying, shocking, and sometimes unbelievable disclosures by terrorized clients. Survivors reported being accessed and abused while in treatment. They also conveyed threats that were made against us, some of which were carried out. Clients — and often therapists—became convinced that they were being tracked by an invisible network of omnipresent and omnipotent abusers, with no escape. These abuses continued even when survivors appeared to follow all the recommended rules of self-protection. Desperate staffs turned hospital-based inpatient treatment protocols on their ears to protect patients from a force no one totally understood, but some patients reported being abused while in hospitals.
The treatment process itself would also prove endlessly complicated, even dangerous. Survivors often began therapy with determination and resolve, only to drop out because their memories flooded them, or because self-destructive behaviors took them over. The training and skills we brought to these clients often seemed to make things worse. The normal rules just did not apply.
And now we find ourselves facing a new challenge. In the USA, although its tentacles spread to other places, a curious group of people launched a campaign to discredit and destroy all of those involved with helping survivors of hidden (dissociated) trauma, in particular ritual abuse, and its survivors. The media colluded with the agenda of this movement, and society welcomed it.