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RMS is Junk science
Law of Total Nefarious Recall (TNR) EDS-7.7.14.TNR: "If you cannot remember something, it either never happened, or it's not bothering you. You always remember things that are bother you."
"If these shocking presumptions were not an actual description of the current state of the Psychology industry, they might be laughable. But regrettably, these simplistic theories are widely applied and widely accepted in a society that naively trusts psychologists to be scientific and objective, optimistic and positive, and caring and other-oriented." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 266)
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Psychiatrists falsely imprison innocent people with "repressed memory syndrome" and "satanic ritual child abuse".
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Forgive and forget!
Psychologists and therapists wrongly
believe it is important for you
to remember past trauma and get angry!
This is opposite to what the Bible says!
Introduction:
The idea that people forget or suppress traumatic experiences is a
myth. If you cannot remember something, then either it was not traumatic
enough for you to remember or it never happened!
Everyone agrees that there are forgotten events in their life that
can be brought into full remembrance in a number of ways. For example, a
family member may recount a family story. You may watch a video of yourself
when you were small etc.
One of the known problems with "recovered memory therapy" is that
when people remember things they had forgotten, that they actually become
angry or depressed.
This is the exact opposite effect that you want to accomplish.
"Since this reconstructed story is inevitably sad, the perceiving
and telling of the story invariably "plunges the victim into profound
grief," which psychologists refuse to see for its destructive effect."
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 223)
We remember the "traumatic stuff" and forget the "routine stuff",
and are hypnotized into remembering the "false stuff" by psychiatrists.
Electro-Convulsive Shock Therapy (ECT) uses huge amounts of
electricity to damage the brain and cause the targeted memory loss.
Repressed Memory Syndrome assumes that things you cannot remember will
depress you but ECT assumes that you cannot be depressed by memories wiped
out by shocks. ECT and Repressed Memory Syndrome are in contradiction with
one another thus exposing both as junk science. RMS brings remembrance to
forgotten memories but ECT does the opposite by making you forget things
that bother you. The various "therapeutic" techniques used to surface so
called "repressed memories" from the "Personal Unconscious" into the
"conscious" do nothing more than provide a "face-saving" game for the
person to feel secure and finally stop lying and tell you what they know
has been bothering them all along. Church ministers have a similar
therapeutic technique where people feel safe and comfortable to talk about
things in their past that causes them depression in the present:
confessional. When sinners confess to a minister they never confess sins
that never happened. Psychologists get nefarious (false) memories which
lead to the destruction of innocent men. Pastors get true confessions which
bring salvation with the release of guilt to the forgiving God who loves
them.
There are countless examples today where a person enters the world
of "junk science therapy" for one thing and before you know it, they are
revealing under hypnosis that their father sexually abused them. The Father
is jailed, fired, divorced and labeled an incestual pedophile for life. But
all was false and the father was totally innocent. The false memories were
implanted into the woman via hypnosis by money hungry "junk science
psychiatrists".
Psychiatrists falsely imprison innocent people with "repressed
memory syndrome" and "satanic ritual child abuse".
Multiple Personality Disorder is closely associated with "repressed
memory syndrome" where a woman is hypnotized and has false memories of
abuse implanted by the psychiatrist.
Movies like "Sybil", and "The faces of eve" have actually coached
thousands of viewers into thinking they have multiple personalities as a
result of forgotten sexual abuse as a child.
"Rather, they see it as leading to "the necessity of mourning... in
the resolution of traumatic life events." According to Herman, "failure to
complete the normal process of grieving perpetuates the traumatic reaction"
for which some time imagining that you were sexually abused, without worry
about accuracy or having your ideas make sense." Others give clients the
instruction to "ground the experience or event in as much knowledge as you
have and then let yourself imagine what actually might have happened."
Corydon Hammond, past president of the American Society of Clinical
Hypnosis, presupposing abuse, will typically say to a person: "You know, I
know a secret about you."" (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p
223)
"Since this reconstructed story is inevitably sad, the perceiving
and telling of the story invariably "plunges the victim into profound
grief," which psychologists refuse to see for its destructive effect."
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 223)
A. Repressed memory therapy is rooted in Freud and Jung:
"Freud's mistakes continue to confuse our understanding of memory.
Although he correctly maintained that loss of memory is often the result of
motivated action (repression), he failed to see that so is the recovery of
memory (remembering) ... In short, Freud wanted the "neurotic" to master
her past trauma internally, by what he called "working through"; whereas
feminists want the "victim" to master it externally, by legal and social
action. Freud is thus innocent of the retaliatory use of recovered-invented
"memories." Therein also lies his guilt." (The Meaning of the Mind, Thomas
Szasz, 1996 AD, p 71)
Carl Jung writes: "I obtained information directly from the
unconscious, and this information revealed a dark and tragic story. ... In
my courses on hypnosis I used to inquire into the personal history of the
patients whom I presented to the students. One case I still remember very
well. ... In the beginning I employed hypnosis in my private practice."
(Memories Dreams Reflections, Carl Gastav Jung, 1961 AD, p 115,116,118)
"In discussing the possibility that the diagnosis and stories of
Sybil, the celebrated case of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) that
gained public attention from the book and subsequent film of the same name,
were the product of the therapist, Herbert Spiegel says: ...that is one of
the biggest difficulties with working with the concept of causation in
psychotherapy. It is the grand illusion that we have inherited from Freud.
Freud's concept was that you had to get to the truth, and unless you get
the truth no therapeutic effect can take place. So, in the pursuit of the
truth we become engaged in story telling and we impose our hypothesis on
the patient by the way we ask our questions. Highly suggestible
(psychologically-prone) people will of course respond in a way that can
please the doctors, especially if there is a good rapport between them.
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 204)
False remembering is a very common result of Repression therapy.
It has been well documented that certain personality types are very
prone to inventing past events that never happened at the suggestion of the
therapist. This parallels the reason why some people are easily hypnotized
and others are not.
B. Repression therapy is harmful:
If you bring to vivid remembrance, things you had forgotten, things
that were bad, hurtful or harmful, you will feel worse not better!
"Since this reconstructed story is inevitably sad, the perceiving
and telling of the story invariably "plunges the victim into profound
grief," which psychologists refuse to see for its destructive effect.
Rather, they see it as leading to "the necessity of mourning... in the
resolution of traumatic life events." According to Herman, "failure to
complete the normal process of grieving perpetuates the traumatic reaction"
for which some time imagining that you were sexually abused, without worry
about accuracy or having your ideas make sense." Others give clients the
instruction to "ground the experience or event in as much knowledge as you
have and then let yourself imagine what actually might have happened."
Corydon Hammond, past president of the American Society of Clinical
Hypnosis, presupposing abuse, will typically say to a person: "You know, I
know a secret about you."" (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p
223)
C. Problems with repression therapy:
Most important, is that the entire theory of "repressed memories" is
false. People simply do not forget major trauma like begin abused as a
child by your uncle. If it happened, you will clearly remember it. If you
can't remember it, it either never happened or it is not bothering you and
you will need to look elsewhere for the cause of your present unhappiness.
We are not bothered by things we cannot remember.
"It is important to note that the Psychology industry chooses to
ignore Freud's concept of the unconscious and Skinner's of operant
conditioning. It refuses to acknowledge that the unconscious is a far more
complicated concept than that of a mental container full of horrible
memories. In so doing, it turns a blind eye to the fact that everyone
constructs his or her own individual and subjective perspective on life and
that "the clinical reconstruction of early childhood experience deals with
the subject's present view about his past, and not with the discovery of
archeological artifacts that have been buried."" (Manufacturing Victims,
Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 265)
If we really have forgotten about a genuine experience of being
sexually abused by our father, (for example) talking about it will only
make us more unhappy. In fact, contrary to foundational theory of the
Psychiatry industry, the more we talk about bad stuff that happened to us
in the past, the worse we feel! This is so well documented, it is a puzzle
why any intelligent person would allow a therapist to spend ours
remembering every single detail of a truly horrifying event.
"The subject of sexual abuse during childhood has a long and
ignominious history in psychiatry. One of the reasons is the widely held
but false belief that psychiatrists, and only psychiatrists, possess
reliable methods for ascertaining whether an event- alleged to have
occurred decades ago, in the privacy of a home-has or has not actually
occurred. Despite its patent absurdity, this belief remains indestructible.
The result is that in the past-when conventional wisdom viewed parents as
the paragons of virtue who could do no wrong, struggling to civilize wicked
children who could do no right-psychiatrists validated the parents'
claims about their children. (They still often do so.) Whereas today-when
conventional wisdom defines parents as defective adults and potential sex
abusers who can do little that is right, misgoverning innocent children who
never lie-psychiatrists validate the (adult) children's claims about
their parents." (The Meaning of the Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 61)
Repressed memory therapy has many proved cases of clients "rewriting
history", "trauma inventing" or "false remembering". In other words, under
the continued pressure of the psychiatrist that the clients unhappiness is
because of forgetting something bad in the past, the client simply invents
something that never happened, and starts believing it is real.
"The Psychology Industry contends that the key to eliminating their impact
lies in recovering and re-experiencing the memories. "The patient must
reconstruct not only what happened but also what she felt," states Herman;
"the recitation of facts without the accompanying emotions is a sterile
exercise, without therapeutic effect." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana
Dineen, 2001, p 77)
The Psychiatry industry encourages you to seek revenge as the way to
right the wrong and make you feel better. This is not only false, but it
contradicts the Bible that tells us not to seek revenge when we suffer
wrong. Romans 12:18-21
The Psychiatry industry is money motivated in a number of complex
interwoven ways when it comes to Repressed memory therapy. First, there is
the $80 per 45 minutes session. This often brings in revenues of several
thousand dollars. Once a forgotten childhood sexual abuse case is
uncovered, next comes the litigation stage where the therapist gains even
more money at up to $500 per hour testifying in court.
So the Psychiatry industry's motivation for you to remember, is not
to help you feel better, but to give them a jackpot windfall through a long
court case where he is the key paid witness!
The Psychiatry industry is totally hypocritical because they
correctly teach that malice, hatred, anger, anxiety are problems
themselves, but then they go on to council people who are not anger, to
become angry as a way of curing the repressed memory syndrome.
"Psychiatrists warn that malice and hatred cause all kinds of
physical and emotional problems. In fact, one specialist has entitled his
book Love or Perish!" (W. W. Wiersbe, The Bible exposition commentary,
1989, 1 Jn 3:18)
Case of false accusations got Psychiatrists convicted:
Psychiatrists do a lot of damage to society today. One area is
repression therapy where the Psychiatrist either blindly believes
unsubstantiated accusations or implants the ideas directly into the minds
of the person making the false charge of abuse.
"A sixteen-year old girl tells her teacher that she is being
sexually abused by her parents. Her mother and father are arrested and
charged with the crime. The girl is put in foster care and begins treatment
with a female psychiatrist at a university psychiatric clinic. The
psychiatrist diagnoses her condition as "post-traumatic stress disorder
brought on by sexual abuse." After 100 therapy sessions, the patient tells
a judge that she made up the story. The patient and her parents sue the
psychiatrist, claiming that she "saw the diagnosis as a certainty and did
not check out anything else. ... She was the key person in the entire
system." The jury finds the doctor guilty of malpractice and awards
substantial money damages to both the patient and her parents. I might add
that in this case (and in many others) common sense should have sufficed to
impugn the accuser's credibility and prevent this drama from developing.
The patient also reported that "her grandmother flew about on a broom . . .
that she had borne three children who were killed, and that she had been
raped in view of diners in a crowded restaurant." Clearly, the jury's
verdict rested on its accepting the plaintiffs' claim that the "key person"
in the case was not the young woman who bore false witness against her
parents, nor the authorities who believed her and acted on her
unsubstantiated accusation, but the psychiatrist who treated her as a bona
fide patient. Judge and jury thus affirmed the popular delusion that a
psychiatrist can reliably determine whether a person is lying or telling
the truth, and hence that it is the psychiatrist's professional duty to
make such a determination. Psychiatrists have themselves to blame for this
situation. They have long pretended that they can evaluate their patients'
"reality testing" and can determine whether or not a patient is "dangerous
to himself or others." When they fail to keep these promises-implicit in
the mystique of their social role-they are duly punished, by being found
guilty of malpractice." (The Meaning of the Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p
63)
Conclusion:
The entire concept of repressed memory therapy is false.
"There are many reasons why people fabricate false memories: because
dramatic accusations, especially of sexual wrongdoing, attract attention
and are sources of fame and money; because revenge is sweet; because people
have a need to explain their unexplained emotional distress, the greater
the distress, the greater the need for a spectacular "cause"; because human
beings have a penchant for attributing their evil impulses to Others; and
because, as I noted, psychiatrists stand ready to relieve people of
responsibility for their behavior-including the responsibility to verify,
for themselves, whether others are telling the truth or not." (The Meaning
of the Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 65)
People project their current view of life back to their childhood.
What actually happened in childhood is coloured through the glasses of
today.
Repressed memory therapy is spreading like a dangerous cancer.
People have been put falsely put in jail because of it. Individuals lives
are being destroyed by falsely remembering events that never happened.
We remember the "traumatic stuff" and forget the "routine stuff",
and are hypnotized into remembering the "false stuff" by psychiatrists.
The entire theory of "repressed memories" is false. People simply do
not forget major trauma like begin abused as a child by your uncle. If it
happened, you will clearly remember it. If you can't remember it, it either
never happened or it is not bothering you and you will need to look
elsewhere for the cause of your present unhappiness.
We are not bothered by things we cannot remember. Psychiatry
disagrees with this and teaches the opposite: Things you cannot remember
are bothering you. This is pure junk science and totally false.
Law of Total Nefarious Recall (TNR) EDS-7.7.14.TNR: "If you cannot
remember something, it either never happened, or it's not bothering you.
You always remember things that bother you."
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