Shameful Therapists

For almost a century, therapists whose work is based on psychoanalysis have believed that the subconscious is so powerful that it completely distorts reality. And nearly all still believe this. Whether asleep or awake, perceptions, dreams, memories, thoughts, and even slips of the tongue, have been regarded as being caused by a dominating, deceiving subconscious, which distorts reality in the service of deep-seated desires, fantasies and repressed emotions. Deception and symbolism (e.g. pencil thought = penis thought) was said to surface into consciousness and tricked the mind, twenty four hours a day - or so they claimed. 

Our WHOLE waking consciousness was seen as being literally MANUFACTURED by this deceptive subconscious.

The psychoanalysts have argued this for 100 years! 

And there are, literally, millions of books and papers, academic and otherwise, all subscribing to this same overarching principle. Indeed,

IT IS THE VERY BASIS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

But this all changed when the profession started losing its customers to medicine, biochemistry and tablets. Now, when customers dream or recall sexual material related to 'abuse', it is suddenly deemed to be real! Even memories of satanic, ritual abuse (eating babies etc) are deemed to be real! And people are actually prosecuted and sent to prison on the basis of these memories. 

For example, in America, Bob Kelly was actually given 12 life sentences for abusing children sometimes in spaceships and sometimes in shark-infested waters on the basis of 'recovered memories'. His alleged abuse of children included the plunging of knives into the orifices of four year olds, and he was found guilty of this even though there was not one shred of medical evidence to support such a possibility. 

Think about it. Knives into the orifices of four year olds - and no medical evidence. Abuse in spaceships! (The children also accused some thirty other adults in the town, including the mayor, whom they had never even met.)

Nevertheless, Bob Kelly was convicted on the basis of these 'recovered memories' that were produced by the children only after they had been indoctrinated by some eight months of 'therapy' - which included, amongst other things, punishments when they failed to admit to having been abused.

And, suddenly, the analyst profession's ENTIRE theoretical underpinnings changed - so that memories of sexual abuse were given a completely different status to ALL other memories and experiences. 

The very FOUNDATION of the psychoanalytical profession was simply thrown out!

Memories of sexual abuse were real. Memories concerning anything else were not!

Why?

Power, money, status, court appearance fees, clients, workshops, touchy-feelie groups, salacious gossip, fantasy role playing games, fun, victimhood, friends, media appearances ....

And it put 'therapists' back into the limelight. 

Just as Freud got famous because he spoke about sex all the time - and people just love that - so it was that 'recovered memories' kept sex in the picture. But there was an added bonus. 'Therapists' got to be 'expert' witnesses in court cases. And the demand increased as women in the USA took advantage of the new weapon that they were given with which to attack and debilitate their husbands, partners, or parents. Child abuse 'rates' soared as false accusations escalated. Compensation claims against all sorts of institutions and their employees rose by the million.

The money positively flowed. The status of 'therapists' rose. They appeared on TV. They made the headlines.

Oprah Winfrey and her ilk just loved them .

But these people do not deserve our respect, because they have damaged terribly millions of individuals by supporting false allegations of sexual abuse and, to make matters worse, they have often actually implanted the memories of such events into their gullible customers' minds . 

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When I say that they have damaged millions of people, I am not exaggerating; e.g. see ...

Tea Abuse

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These people do not have integrity and they do not have 'emotional' intelligence, for they think nothing of busting up families and tearing them apart in the most appalling fashion. Their abuse of so many people has been criminal without a doubt, and they really should be prosecuted. 

Whatever their beliefs, they have never had any moral right to do what they have done, because, if nothing else, no-one can ever be even close to 100% sure of their position concerning any particular individual's psychological make-up and their true History. 

Yet these 'therapists' have damaged horrendously the lives of millions of people on the basis of vague, therapy-induced memories supposedly concerning events that happened decades ago!

And yet these very same 'therapists' would also claim that the subconscious areas of people's brains trick and deceive them 24 hours a day!

But, of course, if this is the case, then it simply is not possible to accept at face value what people say happened to them decades ago.

These people are nothing more than charlatans and crooks who make their living out of hurting people.

Indeed, who among you would utterly destroy people's families without 100% certainty of the facts concerning sexual abuse and without 100% certainty that the people involved would actually benefit after the dreadful ensuing long-term pain of it all?

Who of you would do such a thing?

But these people destroy the lives of others all the time on the basis of so-called 'recovered memories', without a thought for the most horrendous damage that they do. And they do this without even contemplating the possibility that they might be wrong! 

And yet psychoanalysts have been shown to be wrong for the past 100 years in just about every area where they have claimed to be experts.

One of the best ways of dealing in a courtroom with 'recovered memory' therapists who describe themselves as 'experts' is to ask them the following question or something similar.

"Do you believe that a person's subconscious is powerful enough to trick memory and/or perception by distorting, repressing, exaggerating, or deceiving conscious experience?"

If the answer is 'yes', then any argument suggesting that a 'recovered' memory is a good representation of the truth is scuppered.

If the answer is 'no', then there cannot be such a thing as a 'recovered' memory, since, for example, a memory that needs 'recovering' is said to be one that has been distorted and/or repressed.

Finally, it is important to note that memories of unpleasant trivial events can probably be 'repressed' to some degree - if only by consciously avoiding the recollection of them as time goes by.

But the notion that people who have suffered years of sexual assaults - often accompanied by violence and broken limbs - are unable to recall anything of what they went through except under the guidance of psychoanalysts is ludicrous. If anything, people cannot get such traumatic experiences out of their minds. 

They do not forget these experiences. 

They are haunted by them.