Becoming yourself
Subtitle: overcoming mind control and ritual abuse
By: Alison Miller
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781782200765
Subjects: Dissociative disorders; Ritual abuse victims; Multiple personality; Treatment
Description: In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is designed for survivors of these abuses. It takes the survivor systematically through understanding the abuses and how his or her symptoms may be consequences of these abuses, and gives practical advice regarding how a survivor can achieve stability and manage the life issues with which he or she may have difficulty. The book also teaches the survivor how to work with his or her complex personality system and with the traumatic memories, to heal the wounds created by the abuse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. One Symptoms, memories, and evidence; title: ch. Two The struggle for healing with a contribution by; title: Wendy Hoffman: "Creating a government robot"; title: ch. Three Dissociation, multiplicity, and personality systems with a contribution by; title: Wendy Hoffman: "Discovering my multiplicity"; title: ch. Four Engineered multiplicity: personality systems created by mind control; title: ch. Five Indoctrination with a contribution by; title: Stella Katz: "How non-human parts are made"; title: ch. Six Sally from three perspectives contributed by: Sally and her insiders; title: ch. Seven Internal hierarchies with a contribution by; title: LisaBri: "Mistakes my therapist made"; title: ch. Eight Talking with the higher-ups; title: ch. Nine Keeping safe from the perpetrator group; title: ch. Ten Dealing with triggering with a contribution by; title: Jean Riseman: "Programming: taking the wind out of its sails"; title: ch. Eleven Building inner community with contributions by.; title: Contents note continued: Jen Callow: "How I created my inner community"; title: Arauna Morgan: "Dismantling my inner structures"; title: ch. Twelve Coping with daily life with contributions by; title: Wendy Hoffman: "Defrosting"; title: Trish Fotheringham: "My fail-safe and discard programming"; title: ch. Thirteen Emotions with a contribution by; title: Wendy Hoffman: "Feelings"; title: ch. Fourteen What about the memories? with contributions by; title: Wendy Hoffman: "My memory process"; title: Gaby Breitenbach: "Processing difficult experiences"; title: ch. Fifteen Putting together the traumatic memories with a contribution by; title: Jen Callow: "Memory work later in recovery"; title: ch. Sixteen Looking at your family with contributions by; title: LisaBri: "Paternal incest";; title: "Sibling incest";; title: "Maternal incest and emotional abandonment"; title: ch. Seventeen Healing your sexuality with a contribution by; title: Meredith Sharman: "My sexual healing process"; title: ch. Eighteen Succeeding in friendships and relationships.; title: Contents note continued: ch. Nineteen Therapy and therapists with contributions by; title: Adriana Green: "Downfall"; title: Wendy Hoffman: "My life as a therapy patient"; title: Sally's higher-up insiders: "The new therapist"; title: ch. Twenty Overcoming spiritual abuse with contributions by; title: Stella Katz: "For Miranda"; title: Aurora Levins Morales: "Torturers"; title: Heather Davediuk Gingrich: "A Christian therapist's perspective"; title: ch. Twenty-One Becoming yourself; title: with contributions by: Steven Frankel: "Learning to blend"; title: Stella Katz: "Reclairning me"; title: Jen Callow: "To integrate or not to integrate"; title: Jen Callow: "Life after integration."