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Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience
Satanic Temple – Grey Faction (Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves – both aliases)
Pseudoscience: Denial that memories can be repressed.
“The notion that traumatic events can be repressed and later recovered
is the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and
psychiatry. It has provided the theoretical basis for ‘recovered memory
therapy’ — the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since
the lobotomy era.” Prof. Richard McNally” “ the scourge of repressed
memory pseudoscience in mental health care” https://greyfaction.org/
https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/dissociative-amnesia-dsm–5-300.12-(f44.0)
“Dissociative amnesia (DA) is one of three dissociative disorders listed
under DSM-V. The disorder involves the temporary loss of recall memory
caused by disassociation, which may last for a period of seconds or
years. The interruption in memory may be voluntary or involuntary and is
most often a result of psychological trauma. DA involves episodic
autobiographical memory loss inconsistent with normal forgetfulness.
Episodic autobiographical information is associated with contextual
information, such as what happened in the minutes leading up to a
traumatic event. The individual may, however, remember semantic
autobiographical information such as the date, time and weather
conditions of the accident. Dissociative amnesia often arises from
traumatic childhood events.”
Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia – Scientific Evidence and Accuracy Rates
Recovered memories have been defined as the phenomenon of partially
or fully losing parts of memories of traumatic events, and then later
recovering part or all of the memories into conscious awareness. There
is very strong scientific evidence that recovered memories exist.This
has been shown in many scientific studies. The content of recovered
memories have fairly high corroboration rates.
A body of empirical evidence indicates that it is common for abused
children to reach adulthood without conscious awareness of the trauma.
Pseudoscience:
Denying that DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is caused by trauma.
Pope Interview
You’ve treated some thousand-odd patients, many of whom experienced extreme trauma, from what I understand –
Yes.
And you didn’t see evidence of DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder,
otherwise known as Multiple Personality Disorder) in any of them?
I have seen a number of people who were diagnosed with DID, or where the
patients themselves felt that they had DID, so it depends on what you
mean by the question. In other words, there are certainly people that
I’ve seen that were quite convinced that they did have different
personalities that had amnesia for one another. But, even though it was
“real” in the sense that the patients believed that they had it, I’m not
convinced that it was real in the sense that it was a naturally
occurring phenomenon, as opposed to something that had occurred through
the power of suggestion.
https://greyfaction.org/resources/grey-faction-reports/pope-interview/
“Dissociative identity disorder. Formerly known as multiple
personality disorder, this disorder is characterized by alternating
between multiple identities. A person may feel like one or more voices
are trying to take control in their head. Often these identities may
have unique names, characteristics, mannerisms and voices. People with
DID will experience gaps in memory of every day events, personal
information and trauma…
Causes
Dissociative disorders usually develop as a way of dealing with trauma.
Dissociative disorders most often form in children exposed to long-term
physical, sexual or emotional abuse. Natural disasters and combat can
also cause dissociative disorders.”
https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-conditions/dissociative-disorders
Physiological Evidence
Physiological evidence has provided additional evidence to back the
existence of DID. One review of the literature found “physiologic and
ocular differences across alter personalities.” Additional studies have
been found showing optical differences in DID cases. One study found
that “eight of the nine MPD subjects consistently manifested
physiologically distinct alter personality states.” Other reviews have
found additional physiological differences. Brain mapping has also found
physiological differences in alternate personalities. A variety of
psychiatric rating scales found that multiple personality is strongly
related to childhood trauma rather than to an underlying
electrophysiological dysfunction. Dissociative identity disorder
patients have been found to have smaller hippocampal and amygdalar
volumes than healthy subjects. The involvement of the orbitalfrontal
cortex has been proposed in the development of DID, suggesting a
possible neurodevelopmental mechanism that would be responsible for the
development of “multiple representations of self.” More recent research
presents psychobiological evidence indicating actual physical alter
states not found in controls.
with permission from http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Dissociative_Identity_Disorder
Research Evidence showing a connection between Dissociative Identity Disorder and Trauma
Objective Documentation of Child Abuse and Dissociation in 12 Murderers With Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Signs and symptoms of dissociative identity disorder in childhood and
adulthood were corroborated independently and from several sources in
all 12 cases; objective evidence of severe abuse was obtained in 11
cases. The subjects had amnesia for most of the abuse and underreported
it. Marked changes in writing style and/or signatures were documented in
10 cases. CONCLUSIONS: This study establishes, once and for all, the linkage between early severe abuse and dissociative identity disorder.”
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.154.12.1703
Multiple personality disorder in The Netherlands: a clinical investigation of 71 patients.
The presenting characteristics of the patients showed a striking
resemblance to those in several large North American series. Patients
had spent an average of 8.2 years in the mental health system prior to
correct diagnosis. Patients presented with many different symptoms and
frequently received other psychiatric or neurological diagnoses. A
history of childhood physical and/or sexual abuse was reported by 94.4%
of the subjects, and 80.6% met criteria for posttraumatic stress
disorder.
Patients with multiple personality disorder have a stable set of core symptoms throughout North America as well as in Europe.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8434668?dopt=Abstract
Abuse histories in 102 cases of multiple personality disorder.
The authors interviewed 102 individuals with clinical diagnoses of
multiple personality disorder at four centres using the Dissociative
Disorders Interview Schedule. The patients reported high rates of
childhood trauma: 90.2% had been sexually abused, 82.4% physically
abused, and 95.1% subjected to one or both forms of child abuse. Over
50% of subjects reported initial physical and sexual abuse before age
five. The average duration of both types of abuse was ten years, and
numerous different perpetrators were identified. Subjects were equally
likely to be physically abused by their mothers or fathers. Sexual
abusers were more often male than female, but a substantial amount of
sexual abuse was perpetrated by mothers, female relatives, and other
females. Multiple personality disorder appears to be a response to chronic trauma originating during a vulnerable period in childhood.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2044042?dopt=Abstract
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