MEMORY WARS!

"Though the book and subsequent films helped popularize the diagnosis of MPD and trigger an epidemic of the diagnosis; later analysis of the case suggested different interpretations, ranging from Dorsett's problems having been caused by the therapeutic methods used by her psychiatrist....

Dr. David Spiegel, a Stanford psychiatrist whose father treated Dorsett [AKA Mason] on occasion, says that his father described Mason as "a brilliant hysteric. He felt that Dr. Wilbur tended to pressure her to exaggerate the dissociation she already had."

As media attention on MPD increased, so too did the controversy surrounding the diagnosis. Source: Wikipedia

He felt that her psychiatrist pressured her to exaggerate on the dissociation she already had.

Ironically even though the story of Sybil was proven to be suspect there was a remake of the film in 2007, and it still portrayed the case as reality!

A wealth of evidence piled up to disprove
Sybil. Indeed, Simone Reinders, a leading light in the post-SRA generation of DID promoters, has herself admitted that Sybil's DID was false. In her 2008 paper for Kings College titled: Cross-examining dissociative identity disorder she writes:

'One of the best known DID cases, Sybil (Schreiber,
1973), has been found (Rieber, 1999) to have been
a manufactured iatrogenic case of multiple person-
ality. Rieber (1999) discovered how easily ‘The fine
line between self-deception and deception of others’
can be crossed when wanting to make a dissociative
identity disorder case ‘no matter what’. Sybil was
manufactured through hypnosis, pentothal and a
close emotional involvement between subject and
therapist. Using the subject’s given capacity for suggestion, false memories of sexual abuse were created and the notion of multiple personality implanted. Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition, A. A. T. Simone Reinders. 28 May 2008,

Clearly, the history of DID and MPD show unequivocally that false 'alters' and false memories CAN easily be created under DID therapy and this is a problem known by those who practice it. The question is how often does confabulation occur and who decides whether the patient's outpourings are fact or fiction? Of course, in normal psychiatry fact or fiction hardly matters, because the psychiatrist does not look at what the patient is saying, they look at WHY they are saying it. Their outpourings are a symptom of an underlying psychiatric malaise and therefore what they say is not seen as an exact statement of fact. For instance, if the patient is a teenager and has repressed a history of childhood incest then to avoid the extensive repercussions of admitting this fact ( the resulting break-up of a family, the prosecution of the father, the personal shame, the harm to mother and siblings, etc) it is quite likely that the patient might project the abuse onto another imagined perpetrator, or create another narrative blaming the abuse on unspecified evil entities and Satanic mysteries. There are many motives for many fantasies produced by DID patients, not the least of which is continuing to obtain continuous attention and care from the psychiatrist or therapist with whom the patient has enjoyed a transferrence.

History proves that false 'alters' and false memories CAN easily be created under DID therapy and this problem is known by those who practice it.

The frequency of confabulation is open to debate but statistics of cases derived through MPD / DID since the late 1980s show clearly that in almost ALL of those sensational SRA cases that came to court and were tested the evidence gained through DID was proven false or inaccurate - you can see details of them in the time-line in the leftmost column. This would suggest that if not all, then the majority of DID/MPD stories are confabulated. The SAFF has been tracking the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth for 32 years in great detail. We can make the categoric statement that despite thousands of DID indoctrinated patients claiming to have suffered Satanic Abuse not one case of claimed Satanic Ritual Child Abuse has ever been prosecuted successfully through the courts. Every single one of them failed.

The real tragedy is that victims' accounts of 'normal' abuse can be checked and questioned for situation, time, locality, paraphernalia, etc. but the confabulated accusations of abuse under MPD / DID cannot because they are infactual, and the truth is that hundreds if not thousands of innocent men have been incarcerated as a result of DID therapy because their daughters confabulated untrue accusations about imagined abuse during RMT sessions. The Carol Myers (aka Felstead) case is a classic example of how DID can not only put innocent people into prison, but cause the death of patients.

By the 1980s, fictional accounts of MPD cases and motion picture outpourings of schizophrenic crimes had resulted in a cross-over between fact and fiction in the popular mind. Confusion about Schizophrenia, Multiple Personalities, and a lack of understanding of the confabulation which invariably occurs during hypnosis, mislead people and a few psychiatrists who should have known better, to believe that 'Alters' were a reflection of the patients' subconscious when in fact they were an invention of the patient's subconscious.

Believers in MPD held that 'Alters' were a reflection of the patients' subconscious when in fact they were an invention of the patient's subconscious.

Earlier in the 1970s, the spiritual revolution of the 'sixties' had developed into a wholesale melding of fringe philosophical ideas, spirituality and self-help during what was termed the Aquarian Age. A new breed of 'psychologists' and 'therapists' were being trained. A psychiatrist is a trained medical doctor but anyone can call themselves a psychologist or therapist. Thus therapists who had not been properly trained in Freudian Analysis thought that these new 'Aquarian Age' techniques ( such as re-birthing, role-playing, recovered memories, primal scream, and the use of hypnotic trance, etc. ) were short-cuts to the traditional and accepted method of Analysing patients.

Freudian Analysis is a gradual and minutely detailed technique which could take years of weekly sessions to uncover key neuroses in patients, but modern life required a quick-fix and many therapists began experimenting with questionable New Age techniques to get it. Moreover many of the new caucus of 'psychologists' and 'therapists' were in fact Neo-Marxist feminists whose whole world was coloured by the ideology of radical feminism. Radical Feminists saw Freud's teachings as a patriarchal system designed to blame and control women so tried to transform it. MPD became their weapon to do so.

Radical feminism saw Sigmund Freud's system as patriarchal and intent on perpetuating the control of women so tried to transform it. MPD became their weapon to do so.

Michelle Remembers Laurence Pazder and Michelle
Smith In 1980 the book ' Michelle Remembers' was published, it was the account of a relationship between Michelle Smith and her psychiatrist Laurence Pazder (whom Smith later married) which was an updated re-run of Sybil but placed squarely in the context of SATANIC ritual abuse. It was the first ever book to expose the idea of Satanic Abuse to the public.

During Recovered Memory Therapy Smith 'remembered' minute details of repetitive abuse in a Satanic Coven. This was the first time that SRA had been mentioned in connection with MPD. Earlier claimed MPD cases had not had any Satanic content. The book was highly successful, in part powered by the intense media interest. It became the 'bible' of MPD promoters in the Western World as it shot to success 'proving' they claimed, both the existence of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse, and of the MPD syndrome. Nobody mentioned Bridey Murphy then.

Michelle Remembers was arguably the main influencer of the Satanic Panic in the U.S. and it was then imported into the UK where the SRA hysteria hit during 1989. When the hullabaloo had died down researchers checked the facts in the book and found them unverifiable.

Michelle Remembers became the 'bible' of MPD believers 'proving' they claimed, both the existence of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse, and of the MPD / DID syndrome.

Dissociation and Feminism. DID is a feminist
hammer Why had Satanism suddenly been injected into MPD / DID stories? The first-wave feminists who campaigned for equality between the genders had by the mid 1970s been replaced by Radical Neo-Marxist feminists whose intent was to portray all men as inherently abusive.

'[the radical feminists] platform throughout the 1980s was not the traditional class warfare but the new politics of gender. This became translated into a theory where men were substituted for the capitalist ruling class as the oppressors with women and children their captives. In this world-vision sexual abuse was posited as a universal means of control of women and children as an induction into patriarchy, perpetuating the evils of history which had been caused by the violence of men poisoned by testosterone. '

Note well that the ancient stereotype of Satanism perfectly symbolised all the RadFems' complaints. A secret cult of evil men supposedly sadistically abusing, raping and killing women and children. As one leader of a UK rape crisis centre said 'Satan is the ultimate Rapist'. The fact that Satan is an anthropomorphic religious Christian invention appeared irrelevant.

How the NSPCC and National Children's Home used
non-existent SRA to appeal for funds There was no proof of a global network of abusing Satanists but that failed to register in their prejudiced minds. So they set out to invent one with the help of manic fundamentalist Christians with whom they worked in close liaison during the 1980s to create the Satanic Panic beginning in 1987 and spanning most of the 1990s.

The fundamentalists wanted to scare nominal Christians back into the fold, the Radical Marxist Feminists were 'separatists'. They wanted to destroy 'patriarchy' ( masculine control of society) and use imagined incidences of an epidemic of sexual abuse to do it. Key to this was the numbers game. Everyone knew that sexual abuse existed in the shadows, the Radical Feminists wanted to exaggerate the incidence of it and portray it as omnipresent by making fraudulent claims that '1 in 3 children will be abused by their fathers'. Obviously on the basis of an one in three girls will be raped by their
fathers average progeny of 2.5 children per family this would mean that 50% of fathers were abusers! Every other Dad was a sexual criminal. they said! It was a bonkers claim but SRA gave the Radical Feminists the shock-value to get a national debate going on the prevalence of sexual abuse, helped along by money-grubbing child-protection charities such as the NSPCC who saw the scare as a new source of funding.

Courage to Heal, the start of Victimhood

In 1988: Ellen Bass and Laura Davis published their controversial book 'Courage to Heal A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse'. Which contains many stories of how adult women have 'liberated' themselves from unexplained unhappiness using self-help techniques and also includes a self-diagnosed case of a woman who recovered memories of having been Satanically abused as a child.

The
Courage To Heal Ellen Bass and Laura Davis The premiss of the book is that there is an epidemic of childhood sexual abuse of girls which has been repressed due to the trauma involved and can be 'remembered' using New Age techniques. It is one of the mainstays of those who believe in DID / MPD and at the root of much of it. Courage to Heal has been reprinted three times and many academics and commentators accuse the book of creating an avalanche of false-memories and wicked false allegations.

'Courage to Heal has been criticized for being used primarily by incompetent therapists,^[3] for creating in children false memories of abuse,^[4] as well as for its authors' lack of qualifications^[4]^[5] for creating an industry which has isolated and separated family members despite having no positive proof the abuse occurred,^[6] and for destructively replacing individual identities with that of a "survivor".^[7] Bass and Davis have also been criticized for leaping to unwarranted, implausible conclusions with significant consequences and for scientific errors found in the first edition that were not corrected in subsequent reprintings.^[4] Bass and Davis responded to the controversy surrounding the book by writing "Honoring the Truth: A Response to the Backlash", a new chapter included the 1994 edition to respond to and rebut criticisms of the book, though this was removed from the 20th anniversary edition.^[8] ' ^{(source: Wikipedia)}

Satan's Underground, final proof of the existence of SRA?

Front Cover of Satan's Underground. A best
seller! In 1988, after Michelle Remembers had percolated through into the popular mind and Courage To Heal had set all discontented women on a trajectory towards blaming their parents for their under-achievement, the compulsive liar and confidence trickster Rose Laurel Wilson published 'Satan's Underground' a horrific autobiography of how she supposedly was repetitively sexually abused and tortured by murderous child-killing Satanists. Wilson used the pseudonym Lauren Stratford to write her book. There was no psychiatric intention in Wilson's book and she had no feminist pretensions, but it became a best-seller.

Satan's Underground was what both the fundies and the feminists had been looking for for a decade; 'first hand proof' of the existence of a pan-global network of child-abusing Satanists!
Actually it was all lies.
Bob and Gretchen Pasantino, two journalists working at the Christian Cornerstone magazine investigated Wilson's claims and found them to be utterly false in every respect.
She had not been abused.
She had not known any Satanists.
Her story was entirely fabricated.
They wrote a now famous article which totally undermined the book.
So much so that Wilson's publishers withdrew Satan's Underground from sale.
Even so Satan's Underground is still included in SRA bibliographies as though real;
Currently Google Books still has it billed as:

' an incredible true story of mind control, pornography, sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, and Satan worship.'

Even though the publisher voluntarily withdrew it from sale because of the harmful lies it contained!

Wilson's Satan's Underground was incredible because it was untrue in every respect, yet millions still believe it had a grain of truth because that is what they want to believe. The old tabloid axiom comes true again 'tell them what they want to hear'.

Wilson did a runner to avoid the Pasantino's enquiries. She was later discovered using the assumed Jewish name Lisa Grabowski, pretending to be a WWII child Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz, "Wilson collected thousands of dollars in donations intended for Holocaust survivors. As Grabowski," those people who had pinned their colours to the mast by giving Satan's Underground credence to support the lie of SRA, looked the other way and still refuse to see the truth.

Although claimed by DID / MPD therapists as proof of their own contentions it is important to remember that Wilson's book was not connected in any way with DID therapy; Satan's Underground was just out and out fabrication by a compulsive fundamentalist liar who knew how to manipulate the minds of gullible people. What it is proof of is how easily DID/ MPD therapists can be mislead into believing nonsense.

Front
Cover of Audrey Harper's Dance With The Devil A year later a similar Satan book was published in Britain which fanned the flames of belief in non-existent SRA, titled 'Dance With The Devil'. The Author, Audrey Harper, a British fundamentalist Christian had, like Wilson, not undergone any MPD therapy but she had been exorcised numerous times. She was part of a campaigning Christian group which backed the new Satan Scare (Reachout Trust). She told horrible tales of a baby being slaughtered and its blood drunk by a coven of Witches. When the details were checked it turned out to be another pack of Sectarian Lies.

Yes, dear reader, MPD / DID was not simply over-diagnosed by overly enthusiastic 'therapists', it also opened up opportunities for the Christian Fundamentalist circuit, a major feature of which is the Exorcism of sinful devils from women who are brought to the churches for healing and conversion. Audrey Harper herself underwent many full blown exorcisms after joining several fundamentalist churches and later wrote a book recommending it titled 'Deliverance Means Love'.

The profile of people looking to Christian churches for help to cope with life is an almost cookie-cutter copy of those who seek help from psychologists and therapists. They are often one in the same. Harper had been a dead-beat, addict and drug-pushing prostitute when young. In later life she tried to escape her seedy past and turned to God to help her do it. The church blamed her dissolute early life on Satan and it was a good enough excuse for many.

Exorcism, the early form of MPD

John Sentamu Archbishop of York calls for NHS
to pay for Exorcisms Many of the women now saddled with a diagnosis of MPD / DID have actually been 'trained' in it by Churches and gone through exorcisms BEFORE they are passed on to MPD therapists. DID is in fact nothing more than a secularised form of Exorcism. Just as fundamentalists blame the Devil for corrupting a Soul, so do therapists using DID blame the Devil's associates (Satanists) for corrupting a patient's mental state with sexual and physical abuse.

An exorcism involves the calling forth of devils, which are nothing other than the 'Alters' of DID therapists. The 'devils' are then exorcised through dramatic and emotional religious ceremonies where the person being exorcised confesses their past sins and identifies the devils (Alters) who made them do it. Such as The Demon of Lust, The Demon of Drink, etc. In DID therapy the process is exactly the same, rituals of emotional catharsis such as 're-birthing', or 'reverse remembering' are used. You can see one happening here. Both Exorcism and DID put the parishoner/patient into a kind of trance. Often there are multiple devils to be exorcised just as there are multiple Identities discovered in MPD. Ultimately DID is nothing more than superstition clothed in pseudo-psychiatry.

Ultimately MPD/DID is nothing more than superstition, in psychiatry.

Doreen Irvine who wrote From Witchcraft to Christ, an early polemic against Paganism and Witchcraft published her book in 1973 ( which did not, by the way, mention Satanic Abuse because it had not then been invented). Irvine was exorcised many times over a period of some weeks and claimed that 88 Devils (Alters) were cast out of her by Pastor Arthur Neill of the Yate Christian centre in Bristol, before she was 'cured' of Witchcraft. Disconnected from the sectarian world most medical professionals have absolutely no idea of how prevalent Exorcism actually is in the self-help world of DIY therapy.

With the help of irresponsible and unwise programs from the BBC Exorcism has had a massive resurgence in the last few decades.

Exorcisms are regularly held in Pentecostal and house-churches throughout the land.
The Church of England and Catholic Churches have trained Exorcists for use on demand.
The Witch-Children scare of 2006 was created by thousands of children being abused in church exorcism ceremonies. Some were actually killed.
On 3 November 2011 The Archbishop of York, Sentamu, made a public demand for Exorcisms to be paid for by the NHS!
In 2014 the Vatican, with the support of pope Francis, held an exorcism training seminar for 200 Priests.
The SAFF regularly collates cases of exorcism which have gone wrong and harmed or killed people. There are hundreds of them.

Anyone who assumes exorcism is consigned to mediaeval history needs to think again. The MPD / DID caucus and the army of Christian 'counsellors' work together because, of course, The Devil and 'Satan' are synonymous. The hosting of academic papers on the use of Exorcism (termed Spirit Releasement) in the Royal College of Psychiatry website is proof positive that psychiatry is being pushed back into mediaevalism.

How MPD eventually created so many problems it was repackaged as DID

With an understanding of how easily the human mind can confabulate things like 88 Devils and 100 'Alters', the lessons of the detailed fantasies of non-existent Bridey Murphy, the ease with which professionals can be taken-in to create the Sybil myth, the corrupt lies of frauds like Laurel Rose Wilson, and the way the Media successfully dramatises and pushes prurient public interest in MPD / DID, the reliance on MPD as a 'real' psychological syndrome is obviously very much in question, yet it is such a money-making device that more and more DID 'therapists' are jumping on the bandwagon and teaching the method to other health workers so that it is becoming a kind of pyramid selling scheme - a dangerous bandwagon which is growing exponentially.

The explosion of people wrongly diagnosed with MPD in the 1980s and the failure of ALL of the 21 claimed SRA cases in Britain in the 1990s, most of which resulted from fantasies generated during MPD sessions, made MPD a watch-word for Snake-Oil Psychiatry. So bad was its reputation that MPD therapists had to arrange a PR switcheroo and began using the term DID instead of MPD. So after 1990 you will rarely hear the acronym MPD but whenever you hear DID it is without doubt THE SAME THING.

After 1990 you will rarely hear the acronym MPD but it is exactly the same thing as DID.

DID is Dissociative Identity Disorder, but it means exactly the same as Multiple Personality Disorder. The term 'dissociation', is fundamental to the established syndrome of schizophrenia. As the name indicates, schizophrenia causes a split-personality where the mind appears to involve two personalities or aspects of the Self. It is a form of introspection where the 'good' mind blames the bad mind for its own negative actions. It is a way for the Id to come to terms with one's conscience and escape the guilt which is a corrosive aspect of all mental illnesses, and it is a way for a psychotic mind to pretend to be 'normal' whilst leaving the split side of the personality comits acts which it knows are wrong so that it can live with itself afterwards. The 'bad' mind serves as an outlet for release of psychopathic episodes which are normally repressed by the 'good' mind.

The word schizophrenia was coined by Eugen Blueler and is from the Latin, meaning literally Split Mind ( Schizo + Phrenia) 'split' + 'mind' Thus schizophrenia involves TWO personalities, (split-personality) because that is all the mind requires to offset it's abnormal perspectives. This is why the original term used by promoters of MPD when it hi-jacked Schizoprenia was MULTIPLE Personality Disorder. They took the accepted psychiatric framework of split-personality (schizophrenia) and made the radical assertion that patients could have MULTIPLE personalities instead of the two Bleuler had originally theorised. This radical, unproven extension of the syndrome of schizophrenia which its discoverer Blueler never accepted or intended, has been foisted on the rest of the medical fraternity. Most mainstream psychiatrists repudiate the DID sydrome and so it is the crusade of all DID therapists to establish it as true regardless of history and regardless of the facts.

As we have seen patients can easily fantisise multiple pseudo personalities but the actual psychological mechanism of schizophrenia remains dualistic. A conflict between what the patient's mind sees as good and evil within him/herself. MPD therapists made the crucial error of believing that each of their patients' imagined 'Alters' was actually a different part of the mind, a kind of memory bank that was holding and hiding factual experiences the patient had actually undergone from the everyday personality of the patient. Not a mistake any psychiatrist versed in schizophrenia would ever do. Conflicts between the split personality are due to repressions, not memories.

Daily Mirror Home, Satan Kids set free Social
Workers Lashed These MPD therapists did a very similar switcheroo with false accusations of SRA. During 1988-1991 they spoke ONLY of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse. When the first UK SRA case occurred in Nottingham in 1988 they declared it to be SATANIC and then named every other case as SATANIC until 1991 when the false Rochdale SRA case tipped the sentiments of the public and media against them. When the extent of the stupidity, foolishness and plots to incriminate innocent families were known during the collapse of the Rochdale Satanic Ritual Child Abuse case, the media turned on the therapists and social workers involved. Public inquiries castigated those who foolishly believed in SRA and MPD was blamed for producing false memories in small children and adults.

From then on for about 8 years no SRA believer ever used the word 'SATAN'. It was verboten within the therapy lobby. Instead they switched to using the term Ritual Abuse. The full definition of 'Ritual Abuse' given by RAINS to the SAFF in correspondence in 1996 was:

'The Systematic physical, sexual and emotional abuse supported by rituals or symbols with or without a religious or occult ideology.'

NO mention of Satanism at all! Yet they're still chasing Satanic Abusers today 24 years later, as we will show below and you will clearly see from the unique Timeline in the leftmost column that DID is simply a repackaged and rehabilitated MPD with all it's earlier excesses!

When these DID Satan Hunters are talking to patients confabulating fantasies, or their friends in the fundamentalist network about abuse, they refer without question to 'Satanic Ritual Abuse, but when talking to mainstream psychiatrists and the media generally they avoid using the 'S' word because of the mistakes of the 1990s. They talk instead of 'Sadistic Abuse', 'trigger words', 'mind control' 'post traumatic stress' and infer that 'paedophiles use bizarre occult symbols and paraphernalia to frighten children into compliance' but they avoid using the word Satan. Now you see it, now you don't. After a few years, when the public's memory has waned, they started to push the 'Satanic boat' out again. You can see it in the timeline and you can see it outlined below. They have done this so cleverly that many of the therapists who have taken up DID as a method are ignorant of the fact that mad claims of Satanic Abuse are at the root of it. In short the ludicrious idea of a pan-global network of Sadistic Satanic Abusers is central to the promotion of DID and one of the MAIN intentions of the fundie-feminist axis within current MPD / DID therapy is to establish the idea that Satanic Ritual Abuse exists.

The MAIN intention of MPD/DID therapy is not primarily to to cause patients to recover, but to establish the idea that Satanic Ritual Abuse exists.

Why is this? Why would such a nonsensical idea as Satanic Abuse be insisted upon by erstwhile intelligent people? Because these DID therapists are being driven by the fears and fantasies of their patients. Question any group of humans, adults or children, and the fundamental phobias of life will be present. Instinctive fears of snakes (Ophidiophobia), being buried alive (Taphophobia), fear of death (Thanatophobia), fear of giving birth (Tokophobia), fears of being injected (Belonophobia), Fear of Spiders (Arachnophobia), fear of caves,tunnels (Claustrophobia), fear of cemeteries and graveyards (Coimetrophobia), Fear of spilled blood (Hemophobia), all these instinctive fears are within adults and children. When asked to concentrate on these things by a social worker or therapist they loom large and the scenario which allows full, unrestricted reign to the outpouring of these fears are the spooky images of horror which fairy stories implant in children and which the Churches indoctrinate into them with tales of the devil and which the media make a reality on the screen and in fictional books and horror stories. That is why all these phobias and more are present in almost every single diagnosed case of SRA (see SAFF's Satanic Footprint here).

Rumplestiltschin = Abduction and killing of children from mothers cribs by an ugly demon.
Hansel & Gretel = A Witch imprisons two children in cages and prepares them for Sacrifice after which she proposes to eat their flesh.
Pied Piper of Hamelin = Children groomed by enchanted music to leave their parents and follow the piper into the woods, forever to be lost or killed.
King of the Golden Mountain = An evil dwarf tricks a man to give up his son in exchange for illusory riches. The outcast son goes on a series of harrowing adventures involving a snake, a princess and a magic ring.
Little Red Riding Hood = Evil disgusing itself using robes and hoods in order to kill and eat a young girl.

There were many early folklorists who noted their respective nation's folk-stories but since the Grimm brothers popularised their collection of German Fairy Stories in the minds of the populace with their books aimed for the general adult market in 1812, the Media have mined them for a host of popular children's films, plays and books. The original Grimm Stories were compiled by the brothers from spoken history and were often brutal and horrific tales of hobgoblins, ghosts, shape-shifting, werewolves and the supernatural which no child would be shown today, yet the Media sanitised these and kept the memes in the minds of the young.

The scenario which allows full reign to the emergence of these fears are the spooky images of horror and supernatural which fairy stories implant in children and which the Churches then activate in their teachings of the devil which the media make a 'reality' on the screen.

DID is a money-making bandwagon to keep the new generation of therapists lucratively busy at taxpayers' expense.

DID is a fantastic opportunity for the mental health industry. Because there is no real definition of DID it is a catch-all diagnosis for ANYONE who falls into the clutches of DID therapists. I have yet to meet or hear of a person who has been told to go away because they don't have DID! The confirmation rate must be 99.9%. Higher than any other illness pro-rata per capita of the population.

Governments in the West have all backed the idea of mental health and the UK government is pouring money into all kinds of therapies, including DID. An hour's DID therapy will cost you about £200.00, though most therapists fleece the taxpayer by getting the NHS to pay for it. The therapist may spend an hour with you and another half hour or so writing up afterwards. They can get through four to five sessions in a day easily. That's £1,000.00 a day, £5,000 a week, over £200,000 per year. This does not of course include extra income from writing books or articles for magazines, attending and speaking at DID workshops, being a special advisor to the police or social services on cases, all of which are highly paid (£450.00 per 'expert' letter).
What's not to like? They're not helping you for the good of your health are they?

I have yet to hear of a MPD therapist telling a patient to go away because they don't have DID!

But why is the British Government and the General Medical Council and the Royal College of Psychiatry supporting this nonsense when the history of this illegitimate daughter of Schizophrenia has ALREADY been discredited historically and most recently in the US? The situation in North America is even clearer and rapidly turned against DID therapy as you can see from this extract:

    "Academics and clinicians in the fields of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy clashed over the validity of recovered memories and the diagnoses of MPD and DID. Researchers (such as Paul McHugh and Robert Sapolsky) likened the conflict to a civil war, reminiscent of the “memory wars” over false versus recovered memories.

    But the deciding battles were fought in the US law courts in the mid to late 1990s. People claiming they had been falsely accused, and former patients claiming their memories and diagnoses of MPD and DID were induced in therapy began to sue the therapists and the hospitals. In a series of high profile medical malpractice cases millions of dollars were awarded by juries or won in settlements paid out by insurance companies. Licensing boards revoked or restricted the licences to practise of some of the main advocates of recovered memory therapy and proponents of MPD/DID.

    As a result, in north America, the recovered memory movement and the diagnoses of MPD and DID were abruptly reduced and by the end of the 1990s a majority of published academic papers were sceptical about the scientific validity of DID.   In a commentary published in the journal Current Psychiatry in September 2009, Numan Gharaibeh, a staff psychiatrist at Danbury Hospital Danbury, Connecticut, called for DID to be removed from DSM-5.   He cited a 1999 survey of 301 US psychiatrists by Harrison Pope and colleagues about their attitudes toward DSM-IV dissociative disorders diagnoses: only 35% had no reservations about DID as a diagnosis; 43% felt that it should be included only with reservations (e.g., only as a ‘proposed diagnosis’); 15% indicated that the diagnosis should not be included in the DSM at all. In response to a question regarding the status of the evidence in support of the diagnosis, only 21% believed there was strong evidence for DID’s scientific validity.

    Gharaibeh wrote: “On balance, published papers appear sceptical about DID’s core components: dissociative amnesia and recovered-memory therapy”. In 2006 Pope and colleagues published an analysis of academic publications associated with DID and dissociation from 1984 to 2003 which showed a sharp peak in articles in the late 1990s followed by a steep decline."
Source: The Woman Who Had 48 Personalities in The New Scientist (Sept 2013).

Clearly, the experience of the 1990s stigmatised DID and MPD as not only unproven, but actually harmful to patients, so why is the RCP still supporting it?

In Britain the tracking of false memories created during DID / MPD therapy has been done by the august British False Memory Society (BFMS) a group of psychiatrists and academics specialising in the human mind which has for decades analysed, criticised and validated or discredited various false ideas about the memory and how it works. Their website (www.bfms.org.uk) is replete with scientific research, lectures and case histories of how DID has CAUSED trauma in thousands of patients. Professor Christopher French wrote in an article originally carried in the Guardian newspaper on 18 November 2014:

"As I have written in the past in these pages, the use of various dubious techniques by therapists and counsellors aimed at recovering allegedly repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse can often produce detailed and horrific false memories. In fact, there is a consensus among scientists studying memory that traumatic events are more likely to be remembered than forgotten, often leading to post traumatic stress disorder."

The corollary of what Professor French is saying is that false memories created during DID sessions create Post Traumatic Stress disorder in those patients. The old axiom proves true again; The true meaning of a thing always resides in its opposite. DID therapists tell their patients that Sadistic Sexual Abuse causes post-traumatic stress disorder and DID uncovers it, whereas in reality DID creates post-traumatic stress disorder in the patient

Colin Ross self-declared DID/MPD questionnaire

Do-It-Yourself DID

You don't need a psychiatrist to sell someone DID therapy, in fact Colin Ross, one of the front-runners who has popularised DID for decades, promoted a 'Self-Declared DID questionnaire'. This is a tick-box questionnaire which the patient uses to 'diagnose' their own DID! (see right) You can sit at home and discover you've been Satanically abused!

The questionnaire is a travesty of science, including false positives and sections which would probably diagnose every single person in the world with DID if taken seriously. It is no more scientific than the interminable 'Answer these 20 questions to see if you are attractive to the opposite sex' questionnaires in the Weekend Supplements.

For instance, one of the most frequent human happenings which almost everyone will experience at some time or another is Deja-vu, ( the impression that one has been in that same place before or heard a person saying what they just said before) , you can probably remember having an experience like this yourself. In the Ross Self Declared DID questionnaire' Deja-vu is a sign that you have DID!
And there are dozens more.
You can't escape it!
At £200.00 a session.

DID by its very method creates false memories in those treated with it.

In a presentation at Goldsmith's University of London in March 2013 Professor Elizabeth Loftus said numerous experiments and research conducted by herself and others over 40 years showed about 30% of people were susceptible to false memories. In one of these now famous experiments Loftus persuaded subjects to believe that they had met Bugs Bunny on a visit to Disneyland, an impossibility considering Bugs is a Warner Brothers Cartoon Character, not a Disney one. Switch Bugs Bunny for Satan and Disneyland for a Satanic Temple and you have the source of the consistent fantasies produced predominantly by DID patients.

A good illustration of what can go wrong when DID is diagnosed can be seen in the terrible case of Roma Hart a woman who, going by her own legal sworn affidavit was tortured by her DID therapist using drugs and other methods which have a striking resemblance to similar tales coming out of other DID therapists' consulting rooms about Satanic Abuse. Are these tales simply a projection onto imagined Satanists of the DID therapy being imposed on the patient? Judge for yourself in Roma Hart's story in the leftmost column here:

Satan Hunters get in on the act

Not long after Colin Ross's DID questionnaire became 'fashionable' with MPD/DID therapists a version of it was used by RANS (Ritual Abuse Network Scotland) in conjunction with Dundee University to distance-diagnose Satanic Ritual Abuse.

RANS have a long history of making false claims about SRA and network with loony US outfits who underpinned the Qanon phenomenon. See here for background. A key worker at RANS, Joseph Lumbasi, headed an 'experiment' which collated and 'analysed' hundreds of DSM5 type questionnaires sent out to people already known to believe themselves to have been Satanically abused. You get the gist? The utter bankruptcy of such junk-science can be seen when you realise that the questionnaire wasn't distributed across a population but only given to people who already believed that they had been Satanically Abused.

Lumbasi's DSM5 type DID questionnaire was doing just one thing; officially CONFIRMING the false beliefs of schizophrenics about SRA and adding more corrupted data to underpin the fundamentally false premiss of DID, that SRA exists if patients exist who say they've been abused by Satanists. We will no doubt see the forgone 'results' touted at the continuing Satan Seminars these people use to network 'new evidence' to back up their nonsensical ideas.

A classic illustration of how mentally ill patients were brainwashed into accepting memories of Satanic Ritual Abuse by their therapists is outlined in the case of Roma Hart which we give in detail in the leftmost column. It makes horrifying reading, to think that there may be literally thousands of people like Roma Hart who have been 'treated' by DID therapy at the taxpayers' expense. Yes dear reader, your tax money has been co-opted into persecuting mentally ill patients.

These deceits are just one arm of the DID industry, in what has become one of the most lucrative and fast expanding sections of the mental health field. Is this why the Royal College of Psychiatry is backing it? 'Therapists' with Micky-Mouse qualifications are being churned out by the thousands. From Diplomas on Baby Massage to honours in Culinary Medicine and 'qualifications' in using crystals to heal. The RCP appears to have given up trying to keep proper control of this avalanche of junk-science. Follow the money! The august Royal College of Psychiatrists was supposed to act as mediator to protect the public from unscrupulous therapy but is in fact backing it. Not only has it accepted DID as a real syndrome (even though it is, as we have amply shown, unproven) but the RCP library contains papers written by DID fanatics on EXORCISM.

Shameful Exorcism From The RCP

Royal College of Psychiatrists Yes folks, there is actually a paper on how Demons and Angels are archetypal aspects of the Self, and another on the therapeutic benefits of EXORCISM! The RCP is a joke. It's as though all scientific progress over several hundred years has been thrown in the bin in favour of a cut-and-paste DID therapy which has no substance, which is incorrectly diagnosed and therefore has no hope of cure for patients.

The case of Tara Tully of the ISSTD who exorcised a patient who then stabbed herself in the throat to kill the 'demons inside her'.

A classic example of this apparently common acceptance of the use of 'spiritual cleansing' or 'demon revocation' (i.e. EXORCISM) occurred with an ISSTD member and influential DID therapist who was struck off in October 2020 for exorcising her DID patients.

Tara Tulley is a licensed clinical social worker and midwife located in Arizona and member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) who claims to be a survivor of Satanic ritual abuse, with Satanic symbols burned onto her uterus. No talk of mambey pambey Ritual Abuse here, like many in the ISSTD Tulley is a full blown no-holds barred fundamentalist DID practitioner who believes in a pan-global satanic conspiracy to abuse and kill children and indoctrinates her vulnerable patients with those horrors. Grey Faction's biography here makes the details of her irrational beliefs very clear. The official letter cancelling her licence is even more stark:

CONCLUSION

Your pattern of using demon and chant revocations with an extremely vulnerable DID patient group shows a genuine lack of judgement and awareness on your part that supports a conclusion that the best interests of the public are not served by renewing your licence as an LCSW in the state of Utah.

This reckless and dangerous form of therapy, which is not based on recognised knowledge relevant to social work, created confusion, anxiety and fear in a number of your clients. In one especially alarming case, one of your patients started stabbing her throat because she believed she had demons in her throat after going through demon revocation sessions with you.

To any specialist versed in the appallingly destructive history of Exorcism, the Tulley case was not exceptional, it was predictable. In our paper on Exorcism the SAFF covered the Gawber Exorcism. In 1974 church evangelists from Gawber, a village just south of the City of Wakefield, spent days exorcising a mentally vulnerable man. Pronounced 'cured' he was sent home and promptly saw his wife as a demon sent to attack him and killed her by clawing at her throat until she bled to death.

The subsequent inquest pronounced that her murder was a direct result of the exorcism. Public outcry was so great that the Church of England brought in new rules banning exorcism except through a small number of CofE sanctioned and trained exorcists.

Yet even with these clear examples of the dangers of DID, (and there are plenty of other terrible cases shown on our webpage) today the Royal College of Psychiatrists have still not yet removed the papers enthusiastically supporting 'spirit easement' using DID from their library, even though the SAFF have brought this problem to their attention several times!

Why? Follow the money!

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Contents of This Web page.

MEMORY WARS!

Unique SAFF Timeline of the Invention and Development of DID - and a Who's Who of MPD promoters and SRA Movers & Shakers

Case Histories

The Woman Who Had 48 Personalities - New Scientist

Bennett Braun, the DID therapist which DID therapists don't want you to know about.

PSYCHIATRIC VOODOO!

The Royal College of Psychiatry embraces Phrenology within Modern Psychiatry to validate spurious Dissociative Identity Disorder.

How DID was invented and how harmful is it to patients?

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a Mind Control method which implants fantasies.

The intention was not to cure the patient of their psychoses, but prove that they had been abused.

None of these DID therapists ever thought that a patient who failed to produce SRA Alters during RMT indicated that they had had nothing to recall.

Psychiatric treatment has no greater rate of resolution than allowing the patient to come to terms with his situation himself.

The Great Reality Shift - Reincarnation and UFOs

Bridey Murphy - MPD falsification of memories reaches back into past lives.

Bernstein concluded that Bridey Murphy was an earlier incarnation of Tighe's Soul.

It was then found that NONE of the details 'Bridey' had given under hypnosis were factual. The whole thing was a perfect exercise in CONFABULATION.

Today Tighe's story would be identified by DID therapists as real and a factual repressed account of Abuse

Alien Abduction and the psychiatric cross-over

The only difference between the Tighe case and current cases of MPD is that there was no prejudiced therapist asking leading questions about abuse linked to Satanism.

Three Faces of Eve - Psychiatry jumps on the MPD bandwagon

SYBIL: The Book which launched a thousand MPD sufferers.

He felt that her psychiatrist pressured her to exaggerate on the dissociation she already had.

History proves that false 'alters' and false memories CAN easily be created under DID therapy and this problem is known by those who practice it.

Believers in MPD held that 'Alters' were a reflection of the patients' subconscious when in fact they were an invention of the patient's subconscious.

Radical feminism saw Sigmund Freud's system as patriarchal and intent on perpetuating the control of women so tried to transform it. MPD became their weapon to do so.

Michelle Remembers became the 'bible' of MPD believers 'proving' they claimed, both the existence of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse, and of the MPD / DID syndrome.

Courage to Heal, the start of Victimhood

Satan's Underground, final proof of the existence of SRA?

Exorcism, the early form of MPD

Ultimately MPD/DID is nothing more than superstition, in psychiatry.

How MPD eventually created so many problems it was repackaged as DID

After 1990 you will rarely hear the acronym MPD but it is exactly the same thing as DID.

The MAIN intention of MPD/DID therapy is not primarily to to cause patients to recover, but to establish the idea that Satanic Ritual Abuse exists.

The scenario which allows full reign to the emergence of these fears are the spooky images of horror and supernatural which fairy stories implant in children and which the Churches then activate in their teachings of the devil which the media make a 'reality' on the screen.

DID is a money-making bandwagon to keep the new generation of therapists lucratively busy at taxpayers' expense.

I have yet to hear of a MPD therapist telling a patient to go away because they don't have DID!

Do-It-Yourself DID

DID by its very method creates false memories in those treated with it.

Satan Hunters get in on the act

Shameful Exorcism From The RCP

The case of Tara Tully of the ISSTD who exorcised a patient who then stabbed herself in the throat to kill the 'demons inside her'.

How DID, an unproven and unnecessary syndrome, fleeces the taxpayer to the tune of £60 million a year.

The real problem is the malpractice of using a worthless psychiatric method in place of more orthodox techniques which might actually work to help the patient.

The originators of DID and it's professional body the ISSTD have questions to answer.

Links between the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley and the Christian Association of Psychiatrists.

Members of the Christian Association of Psychiatrists actually interfered with patients' orthodox NHS treatment by exorcising some people in their hospital beds

First Ever Satan Seminar held by Blacker and Checkley.

The Psychiatric establishment kept their heads down and said nothing about Christian evangelicals introducing mediaeval concepts of mental illness which science had erradicated several hundred years earlier.

Valerie Sinason, doyenne of Satan Hunters world-wide

The explosion of diagnoses of DID during the Satanic Panic clustered around a small number of clinicians and the suggestibility of those with DID confirms that DID is therapist-induced.

Self-Victimisation Syndrome destroys all DID / MPD credibility.

claims of Alien Abduction and Torture were caused by the same Self-victimisation Syndrome as that which created Satanic Abuse Allegations. Both were equally unreal yet in DID therapy Aliens are ignored completely in favour of falsely accusing Satanists!

When the government BANNED social workers from interrogating children after Rochdale, cases of children-driven SRA simply stopped

Simon Wesley, professor of psychiatry at Kings College commented that one nomination for Sinason's "Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse stated it was 'credulous, superstitious, iatrogenic, illness-inducing, self-righteous, incendiary garbage'.

David Icke filtered SRA 'victims' to Valerie Sinason and RAINS

The Oude Pekela Case and the ESTD

Behind DID is the SRA hysteria, plain and simple.

Carl 'Nick' Beech. The Victim-Imposter whose story exemplifies the dangers of DID intermediaries.

The dangers of instantly believing any self-identified abuse victim is clearly shown, yet that is EXACTLY what therapists in DID seek to do.

ESTD and the European Satanic Circus.

The pan-European caucus of Satan Hunters comes to the UK Institute of Psychiatry to inflict Frankenstein medical practices onto patients.

Fantasy Vs Trauma

Conclusions:

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Simon Wesley, professor of psychiatry at Kings College commented that one nomination for Sinason's "Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse stated it was 'credulous, superstitious, iatrogenic, illness-inducing, self-righteous, incendiary garbage'.