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Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists

Author(s) : Alison Miller

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Louise Smith, BACP Accred, Psychotherapist on 03/09/2025 18:21:00

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This book gives thought-provoking practical guidance on working with survivors of extreme childhood abuse. Whilst the existence of ritual abuse is highly controversial, the reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as a response to extreme infant trauma, is now generally accepted. Miller believes that organised trans-generational criminal networks exist within politics, religion, cults and the military and that they perpetrate extreme abuse on infants to induce dissociation for the primary purpose of mind control. She calls it ’a hidden holocaust’ and says the core trauma is the destruction of the capacity for attachment which is ‘like the fault in the earth that enables earthquakes.’ I felt a tension, perhaps inevitable with this intense work, between horrifically concrete details presented as facts and how Miller advises us to ‘sit with shattered souls’ and not to ‘play detective’ with clients. But she gives a methodical framework for working relationally with fragmented and isolated client ‘multiples’ to achieve more wholeness and continuity of identity as well as greater agency and some quality of life. Practitioners overwhelmed by their client’s dark reality may find Miller’s emphasis on trust building, stabilization, and encouraging ‘parts’ to cooperate with each other useful. They might also appreciate her call for self-care and warnings about the danger of therapist enmeshment and burnout. Miller also addresses the problem of evil and likens it to an ‘addiction’ where progressive corruption can occur because of lack of ‘self-love’. Over all this book conveys the idea that freedom from bondage and connection to goodness relies on our ability to access the totality of our minds and make our own meaning from that. This has been Miller’s therapeutic mission, to which this book is a remarkable testament.