Therapy

How can you know?

You can not tell from therapist’s appearance, diplomas, or office furnishings, whether they are the wrong kind or not. Pay attention to what they do and say. If your therapist says any of these things, leave and never go back!

“Most of my patients have been sexually abused and your symptoms are just like theirs.”

“The fact that you can’t remember is proof that it happened.”

“You Don’t agree? You’re in denial. Blocking out painful memories is your coping mechanism.”

“Your memories are real! Feelings are never wrong. Listen to your inner child.”

“Who would lie to himself about such terrible things?”

“We’ll do some visualizations and guided imagery.”

“You have to get worse before you get better.”

“I want you to read The Courage To Heal.”

“If your parents deny that they abused you, that’s proof they did.”

“Your parents may have worshipped Satan.”

“I love you unconditionally, not like your parents.”

Do not let a therapist, including psychiatrists, use drugs, hypnotism, or age regression to diagnose your problem or to find “repressed memories.”

Beware of survivor’s groups, particularly if they all have memories of sexual abuse and pressure you to find your “memories” of being abused.

Every day hundreds of women are being BRAINWASHED into believing that they were abused by their own parents while they were children, forgot the experience, and now must recall it in lurid detail in order to “heal” with their previously happy childhood memories buried under fabricated nightmares of rape and incest, some including satanic ritual abuse.

Any advice to separate from your family is a major red alert!
Separate from your therapist instead!

Your family is most likely the greatest source of support

that you will ever have.

Both the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have issued warnings on “recovered memory” therapy.

The American Psychological Association advises extreme caution when dealing with memories because memory can be highly fallible.

The April 1998 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry reports that:

ü	There is no evidence that memories can be ‘blocked out’ by the mind.

ü	There is no evidence that any checklists, syndromes, symptoms or signs accurately indicate that a person has been sexually abused.

ü	Hypnosis is unreliable as a means of recovering memories of past events.

ü	There is no evidence for the usefulness of age regression therapy.

ü	Dream interpretations only reflect the training and personal convictions of the therapist.

ü	Memory enhancement techniques do not enhance memory. The evidence suggests that all the techniques outlined above can create entirely new and false memories, not only experimentally but also in clinical practice.

Many therapists are fine, but many use very dangerous practices and you could get much worse.

This book, True Stories of False Memories tells what happened to other young women who got into bad therapy.