Survivorship May Online Conference for Trauma Survivors and Clinicians

 

Survivorship May Online Conference for Trauma Survivors and Clinicians                    

Survivorship is now accepting conference registrations for their May 15 - 17, 2026 online conferences. They are extending their low prices until March 29th. CEs are available for the Friday conference. Conference topics include PTSD, trauma, dissociation, neurofeedback, DID, ritual abuse and mind control. More information is below. 

Please write info@survivorship.org if you are interested in attending their conference. Conference information is at https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2026/

 

Conference Speakers

Ritual Abuse as Mind Control - Wendy Hoffman

Rituals are common practice in satanic culture. This presentation explores how every moment of a ritual is used for mind control. Its purpose is to capture the minds of its victims and enforce its programs. Traumatic emotions are also an important part of mind control, and they will be discussed.

 

Wendy Hoffman has published four memoirs, two books of poetry and a co-authored book of essays. She does consultations for therapists working in the field of dissociative disorders and presentations on mind control internationally. https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/ 

 

Traces of Western Practices of Ritual Abuse in Mary Daly’s

Gyn/Ecology and Other Texts - Lynn Brunet

Mary Daly (1928-2010), born in Schenectady, New York, was a philosopher and theologian and described herself as a radical lesbian feminist, intent on exposing the extent to which the patriarchy exploits women and working towards changing this. This paper will not get into the politics surrounding radical feminism, which is multi-faceted and extensive, but instead will examine one of her key texts, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978). In this text there are multiple references to the experience of spinning. She describes the book as “an invitation to the Wild Witch in all women who long to spin” (Daly 1978, xv).

 

This talk will explore Daly’s use of language throughout Gyn/Ecology to suggest that concealed/revealed in her writing may be traces of western practices of ritual abuse, practices that only began to come to public attention in the mid-1980s. It will suggest that the author’s search for the most extreme examples of ritual torture of women across cultures, coupled with the idiosyncratic metaphorical language of ecstatic spiral journeying used in Gyn/Ecology and other texts, may have been a means of expressing a deeply internalised and repressed experience of childhood ritual abuse. As the following discussion will outline, hidden cultic practices of a Druidic nature appear to have been exported to the United States alongside conservative religious practices amongst migrant groups such as the Irish, the culture that Mary Daly celebrates as her own heritage.

 

Lynn Brunet (PhD) is an Australian art historian whose research examines the coupling of trauma and ritual in modern and contemporary western art and literature. In particular, it traces the connection between Masonic and other fraternal initiation rites and complex trauma in the work of various artists and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. https://independent.academia.edu/LynnBrunet1 

 

Remembering Wholeness: Trauma-Informed Writing in Support of Voice, Safety, and Self-Trust - deJoly LaBrier

As both a survivor of extreme abuse and a Life and Writing Coach, her work is informed by lived experience as well as years of supporting women on their healing journeys. In this presentation, she shares how trauma-informed writing practices can support survivors in reclaiming voice, coherence, and a sense of inner authorship after experiences that fracture identity and distort self-perception.

 

Rather than asking survivors to revisit traumatic material, this approach honors personal boundaries and nervous system readiness. Writing becomes a relational practice—one that allows meaning to emerge slowly, safely, and on the survivor’s own terms. This work reflects a deep belief that survivors are not broken, but adaptive—and that wholeness is not something to be earned, but remembered. This presentation recognizes dissociation and multiplicity as adaptive survival responses and offers trauma-informed writing practices that support safety, voice, and self-trust without requiring integration or disclosure.

 

deJoly LaBrier is a Life and Writing Coach, public speaker, and survivor of extreme abuse whose work focuses on trauma-informed writing practices for women impacted by trafficking, ritual abuse, and complex trauma. Drawing from lived experience as well as years of coaching, facilitation, and public speaking, she supports survivors in reclaiming voice, agency, and a sense of wholeness after experiences that fracture identity and distort self-perception. https://dejoly.com/shop 

 

Unraveling the Tangled Mind: Psychotherapy with Survivors of Mind Control - Faige Flakser, LCSW

This presentation offers a clinical roadmap for psychotherapy with survivors of Organized and Extreme Abuse (OEA), including cultic abuse, ritual abuse, trafficking, and other coercive systems. It describes how this work frequently presents with complex trauma and dissociation, with dissociative parts and self-states, often including DID. Participants will be oriented to the core psychological binds created by mind control: confrontation with profound human cruelty and the systematic destabilizing of reality-testing through confusion, coercion, and terror-based conditioning. The presentation highlights three predictable trust ruptures that shape treatment from the first contact: mistrust of helpers, including realistic fears that perpetrators may pose as helpers; mistrust within family systems where grooming and recruitment have often occurred; and mistrust of one’s own mind in the aftermath of sustained manipulation. These ruptures complicate the formation of a therapeutic alliance and require a paced, relational approach that honors the protective functions of doubt, vigilance, and withdrawal.

 

Faige Flakser, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, consultant, and educator with a clinical focus on trauma, dissociation, and DID, as well as Organized and Extreme Abuse (OEA), including mind control and coercive systems. She holds leadership roles within the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), where she is the former Chair of the OEA Special Interest Group and has presented at ISSTD conferences. She is Director of the Trauma Division at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP).

An Introduction to Neurofeedback for Trauma - Joshua Moore MA, LMHC, BCN

Neurofeedback is a non-invasive, evidence-based therapeutic modality that helps individuals to self-regulate brain activity through real-time biofeedback of brainwave patterns, often referred to as EEG entrainment. In the treatment of trauma, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), neurofeedback targets key neurophysiological features such as hyperarousal, emotional dysregulation, and altered brain connectivity resulting from traumatic experiences. By identifying specific neuro-markers associated with PTSD, practitioners can transform the often intangible nature of psychological trauma into visible representations on a computer screen or printout, facilitating targeted training to normalize brain function.

This approach serves as a promising adjunct to traditional trauma therapies, effectively reducing core PTSD symptoms—including intrusive thoughts, avoidance behaviors, and heightened arousal—without necessitating direct exposure to traumatic memories, which many clients find aversive. Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses indicate moderate beneficial effects on PTSD symptoms, with neurofeedback demonstrating clinically meaningful improvements in symptom severity. Neurofeedback is also discussed for its potential utility in Bessel van der Kolk's book, The Body Keeps the Score, which highlights innovative, body-oriented interventions for trauma recovery (van der Kolk, 2014). In this lecture, key research and outcomes will be reviewed, alongside clinical principles and skills, emerging protocols, practical resources for locating practitioners, and training to become a certified neurofeedback practitioner.

 

Joshua Moore is a licensed mental health counselor who incorporates a variety of treatments, including talk therapy, EMDR, QEEG brain mapping, family systems work, and neurofeedback. Joshua is passionate about making evidence-based quality neurofeedback more available to the community. Joshua provides neurofeedback mentorship to several clinics and creates online workshops for beginners and advanced clinicians in the field of healthcare. Clinically, he works with difficult cases, including dissociative identity disorder, PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and complex or unclear diagnoses. Joshua holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from Multnomah University and a Bachelor’s degree in Theology, and he is board-certified in neurofeedback through the Biofeedback International Certification Alliance (BCIA).

 

Intergenerational Occult Families, and One Father’s Fight for His Abducted Daughter - Iain Bryson

Iain Bryson’s daughter was taken fifteen years ago by his first wife and her family after his first wife told him that her family is a “cult,” and that she would be taking their daughter back to them because of “mind control.” Iain had no idea what ritual abuse and trauma-based-mind-control were until his daughter was taken. He had to reconcile that fact with what his wife had warned and the signs that his mind had refused to see. Iain tried to get help from local authorities and international authorities. Despite the fact that his daughter is a United States citizen, the only advice given by the Embassy was to re-abduct his daughter given that Poland is out of the Embassy’s jurisdiction. Having to take matters into his own hands, Iain ended up in the Polish criminal justice system. He was incarcerated for fifty months in Poland because of his attempts to make the system aware on his daughter. Iain was released in 2015.

In 2024, Iain Bryson published an evidence-based, documentary style memoir of his daughter’s abduction. He continues to fight for his daughter, and for other survivors of the horrendous atrocity we know as ritual abuse.

Clinical Discussion Group - How Ethics and History Effect Present Practice

The Survivorship Board Members will moderate a discussion on how ethics and history in the field of psychology effect present practice. The discussion will include historical events in the field of psychology, allegations of ethical lapses that happened in different psychotherapeutic settings and how historical misconceptions of the field and different diagnoses may effect present practice.

None of the material on this page, on linked pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.

 

 

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick

 

The 2025 Online Annual Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Conference Presentation –  Sunday August 17, 2025

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick

Reprinted with permission from https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2025-conference/thirty-years-of-publishing-and-advocacy-neil-brick/

Neil Brick will discuss how and why he created the SMART Newsletter.  He will talk about how the newsletter and the field of ritual abuse have changed over the years. He will discuss the importance of advocacy and public education.  Ideas for the future growth of the field will be discussed.

Neil Brick is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us  has been published for over 30 years. http://neilbrick.com

Parts of this presentation may be triggering and may describe abuse or violence. All accusations are alleged.

In March 2025, SMART celebrated thirty years of printing newsletters.  The newsletter has been published bi-monthly since March 1995. In July 2025, we published our 183^rd issue.  Originally the newsletter was only mailed to subscribers.  In March 1996, we began publishing the newsletter online and we started our email address smartnews@aol.com .  In August 1998, we had our first ritual abuse conference in Connecticut. We have had yearly summer conferences since then. This is our twenty eighth conference.

I originally started the newsletter because I believed no one was fully covering the issue of secretive organizations and groups involvement in the abuse of others. There were a few newsletters covering the topic of ritual abuse in the United States and Australia during the 1990’s. Most of those stopped publishing during that decade.  Survivorship started publishing their newsletter in 1989.  Their publications of their bi-monthly notes and twice a year journals are still being published today.

Ritual abuse crimes began being fully uncovered in the 1980’s. One of the first books describing these crimes was Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, MD. Though the book has been viciously attacked by child abuse skeptics, the reality is that the facts in the book were vetted by the publisher:

Two experienced interviewers journeyed to Victoria and talked to Dr. Pazder’s colleagues, to the priests and the bishop who became involved in the case, to doctors who treated Michelle Smith when she was a child, to relatives and friends. From local newspaper, clergy, and police sources they learned that reports of Satanism in Victoria are not infrequent and that Satanism has apparently existed there for many years. Satanism in Western Canada flourished in many areas with activities far more ominous than some of the innocuous groups now found in parts of the United States who claim some connection with Satanism.

The source material was scrutinized. The many thousands of pages of transcript of the tape recordings that Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith made of their psychiatric sessions were read and digested; they became the basis of this book. The tapes themselves were listened to in good measure, and the videotapes made of some of his sessions were viewed. Both the audio and video are powerfully convincing. It is nearly unthinkable that the protracted agony they record could have been fabricated.@ (A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER@ pages xi B xiii).

Dr. Alison Miller also verified the existence of ritual abuse in that area of Canada.

“I can add more about Michelle Remembers. Larry Pazder practised in the same city as me, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I knew him slightly and once shared a case of a teenage boy with DID caused by abuse by a babysitter. It was in Victoria that I encountered my first four survivors of organized abuse, and they were all members of the same coven of a Satanic cult, the Serpents. They shared past and (then, early 90s) current memories of abuse by that cult. Some of their parents were leaders in the cult. They remembered rituals at the same locations that Michelle reported (in particular, Ross Bay cemetery.)…I have no question that he and Michelle were talking about very real events.”  (correspondence with the SMART newsletter).

The notes from the publisher and Dr. Miller’s complete statement is available online at https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/michelle‑remembers/ 

The McMartin Day Care Case was the one of the first major day care cases to uncover ritual abuse crimes in detail. There has been a great deal of misinformation produced about this case by skeptics of ritual abuse crimes.  This case began in 1983 and ended in 1991.

(See Chronology of the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup/  )

In February 1984 seven defendants were arrested and charged with 207 counts of child molestation and conspiracy. On April 2, 1984, the L. A. Times reported that students at McMartin had been fondled, raped, drugged, photographed nude, forced to witness animals being slaughtered and threatened to keep silent. In May 23, 1984, the prosecution filed 93 new counts. The indictment count reaches 208, involving 40 alleged child victims. On August 8, 1984, Prosecutor Lael Rubin announced that the seven McMartin teachers committed 397 sexual crimes, in addition to the 115 for which they already faced charges.

On January 7, 1985, Doctor Astrid Heger testified that she found physical evidence of sexual assaults on 33 of the child witnesses. On June 11, 1985, Judge Bobb ruled that child witnesses will not be allowed to use the new statute allowing child victims of abuse to testify over closed circuit TV. The prosecution immediately announced that it would not call any of its remaining witnesses. Only 5 of those 28 were willing to testify at all and then only by way of closed-circuit TV. Six other witnesses dropped out because Rubin said they could not withstand even the protective TV procedure. The remaining 16 witnesses had been withdrawn by their parents after they saw the effects of lengthy cross‑examination on the early witnesses. This reduces the number of witnesses from 43 to 13 and, as a result, the reduces the number of counts.

On January 17, 1986, before the case is assigned to a trial judge and after losing 28 witnesses because of brutal defense tactics during the pretrial weakened the case, District Attorney Ira Reiner decides to drop charges against five of the seven defendants. Reiner tells parents that Betty Raidor has enough remaining counts to face trial, but says he thinks she would not fit in prosecuting mother and son, Peggy and Ray Buckey. The two are prosecuted on 79 counts and 20 counts, respectively, of child sexual abuse.

In August 1987 the first victim witness, a girl now age 12, takes the stand as a witness for the prosecution. October 12, 1987, Judge Pounders dismisses 27 of the 100 counts. Some parents again refuse to let their children testify under adverse conditions.

December 10, 1987, a retired former police investigator Paul Bynum is called to testify at the trial by prosecutor Lael Rubin. The morning he was to appear, a juror’s home was burglarized and Bynum’s testimony was rescheduled for the next morning. Bynum was found dead by his wife at 5:45 that morning, shot in the head by a .38 caliber pistol. Bynum had conducted the first search for evidence at the preschool site in 1984 at the request of Ray Buckey. ANone of the half dozen people questioned who were close to Bynum could think of any reason why his involvement in the case might have driven him to suicide, reported Kevin Cody of the Easy Reader in Manhattan Beach. “Paul was kind of a worrier,” said Stephen Kay, a deputy district attorney and friend of the Bynum family, “but there was no hint of suicide. He was very upbeat about his wife and new daughter, both of whom he adored.”

In January 18, 1990, the jury returns its verdict in the first McMartin trial. Peggy and Ray Buckey are acquitted on 52 counts. The jury deadlocks on 13 counts, all against Ray Buckey. The jurors are polled and say they believe molestation took place at the preschool but that the prosecution did not prove the case. They expressed disappointment at not hearing more from the children.

In April and May 1990 Tunnels are found under the foundation of the McMartin Preschool building by a team of Archaeologists headed by Dr. Gary Stickel. Ground Penetrating Radar recently developed by the U.S. Army is used to define the location of anomalies underground. Three segments of tunnel, one over 45 feet in length with a 9 x 9 room area are found exactly where the children said they were. District Attorney does not use the evidence because of time and money constraints and the fact that they would have to start a new investigation of their own at the site as they did in 1985. The discoveries are widely reported in the news. (Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site, Manhattan Beach, California

(http://web.archive.org/web/20010123212200/members.cruzio.com/~ratf/McMartin.html/    )

In July 27, 1990, on their 15th day of deliberations, the jury tells the judge they are hopelessly deadlocked on all 8 counts. The judge declares a mistrial. Juror L. I., a 64 year old treasury department employee said, “I don’t know how you could get 12 people to be unanimous in this case. There are too many unanswered questions. Too much time has passed.” Again because of money and time constraints, DA Ira Reiner decides not to ask for a third trial of Ray Buckey. The first two prosecutions have consumed over $15 million and seven years of court time. He is under tremendous political pressure because he has failed in prosecuting the case.

Large collection of data and articles on the McMartin Preschool Case https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup

In the early 1990’s accounts of government mind control began to be discussed. One of the most well-known of these was the “The Greenbaum Speech.” This was a presentation at a conference called Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse by D. C. Hammond Ph.D. in 1992. It was Adelivered at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality, Thursday June 25, 1992, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia. Sponsored by the Center for Abuse Recovery & Empowerment.  D. C. Hammond was a well-trained psychologist. His credentials are cited in the link below this section.

Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse

“Okay. I want to start off by talking a little about trance‑training and the use of hypnotic phenomena with an MPD dissociative‑disorder population, to talk some about unconscious exploration, methods of doing that, the use of imagery and symbolic imagery techniques for managing physical symptoms, input overload, things like that. Before the day’s out, I want to spend some time talking about something I think has been completely neglected in the field of dissociative disorders, and that’s talking about methods of profound calming for automatic hyper‑arousal that’s been conditioned in these patients.”

“Here’s where it appears to have come from. At the end of World War II, before it even ended, Allen Dulles and people from our Intelligence Community were already in Switzerland making contact to get out Nazi scientists. As World War II ends, they not only get out rocket scientists, but they also get out some Nazi doctors who have been doing mind‑control research in the camps.” https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/2023‑conference/the‑effects‑of‑social‑movements‑on‑survivor‑support‑systems‑and‑survivor‑recovery‑neil‑brick  

“Greenbaum Speech” audio https://archive.org/embed/thegreenbaumspeech&playlist=1&autoplay=1

“Greenbaum Speech” text https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e9ece3e4b074062a41314d/t/5c53a2e1104c7bd8f7751256/1548985059033/The+Greenbaum+Speech%2C+Corry+Hammond.pdf

In March 1995 therapist Valerie Wolf and her patient Claudia Mullen testified at the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.

“My name is Valerie Wolf. In listening to the testimony today, it all sounds really familiar. I am here to talk about a possible link between radiation and mind control experimentation that began in the late 1940’s. The main reason that mind control research is being mentioned is because people are alleging that they were exposed as children to mind control, radiation, and chemical experimentation which were administered by the same doctors who were known to be involved in conducting both radiation and mind control research. Written documentation has been provided revealing the names of people, and the names of research projects in statements from people across the country. It is also important to understand mind control techniques and follow‑ups into adulthood may have been used to intimidate particular research subjects into not talking about their victimization in government research. As a therapist for the past twenty‑two years, I have specialized in treating victims and perpetrators of trauma, and their families. When word got out that I was appearing at this hearing, nearly forty therapists across the country (and I had about a week and a half to prepare) contacted me to talk about clients who had reported being subjected to radiation and mind control experiments. The consistency of people’s stories about the purpose of the mind control and pain induction techniques, such as electric shock, use of hallucinogens, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, dislocation of limbs, and sexual abuse is remarkable.”  (CKLN‑FM Mind Control Series ‑‑ Part 3 Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf ‑‑ Claudia Mullen ‑‑ Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html )

MKULTRA victims ‑ Claudia Mullen Testimony https://vimeo.com/26846581

MKUlLTRA victims ‑ Valerie Wolf & Christine deNicola Testimonies

A good articles about the research on DID and ritual abuse and the cover up by child abuse skeptics is Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory by Brian Moss, MA, MFT  https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/disinformation‑and‑did‑the‑politics‑of‑memory

This article contains information about now closed The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). AIn March of 1992 the False Memory Syndrome Foundation was formed claiming to have discovered a new syndrome. “Syndrome” is a clinical term that requires certain agreed upon signs and symptoms indicative of a disorder. The FMSF definition of “false memory” does not meet these criteria:  Despite the fact that “False Memory Syndrome” remained undefined and had never been the subject of any research, the FMSF focused its early activities on influencing the media and legal system. The definition of “False Memory Syndrome” did not evolve from clinical studies; rather the purported syndrome’s description is based on the accounts of parents claiming to be falsely accused of child sexual abuse, usually by their adult daughters. (Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory)

The FMSF group started in the early 1990s. In the 1980s and the early 1990s, there was mixed coverage of ritual abuse crimes, some favorable coverage and some unfavorable.  By the mid-1990s, most of the media coverage about ritual abuse crimes was biased and unfavorable.

I started remembering ritual abuse memories in 1990 when I stopped using alcohol and I moved away from the area where I grew up.  I had already started a period of self exploration prior to this, meditating and working on building meditative mind states.  There was very little information available at that time. A few years later I found about Survivorship and other ritual abuse newsletters.  In SMART Issue 4 – September 1995 (https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑4‑september‑1995/ ) I republished a copy of an interview I did with S.O.A.R. (Survivors of Abusive Rituals) in July 1993. I discussed my allegations of Masonic Ritual Abuse and my healing process at that time.  The first ten issues of SMART in 1995 and 1996 covered allegations against the Masons and the Mormons.  In 1997, we started to cover the issues of Government Mind Control (as discussed above in the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.)  In our seventeenth issue we have an article about Claudia Mullen.  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑17‑november‑1997/

A quick reference list for all of our newsletters is at https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/ 

We also have a search engine bar at our website  https://ritualabuse.us in the top right-hand corner.

This following may be very triggering for RA/MC survivors.

In our thirty-fourth issue in September 2000, I discussed how I realized that I am an alleged survivor of mk‑ultra programming, and Illuminati programming. I had known for many years that I was a survivor of alleged Masonic ritual abuse. The last few years I had been having more memories about being experimented on in lab settings and electroshocked. While talking to friends, I had a very strong emotional feeling, like I had been hit by an incredible wind in my midsection, and I felt very disorientated. I realized that all sorts of walls had gone down in my system and that I was very confused and disorientated, like spin programming. I really knew at that moment I was Illuminati. This fits with the Masonic piece I had talked about for years.

I didn’t fully realize this until this particular moment, but I had always kept my mind open to whatever memories or feelings I had, thinking about them to see if and how they fit.

After talking to my friends, I had an incredible deal of trouble finding my way out of where I was via car and drove around lost for about ten minutes or so until I could find the highway. I realized that this was a disorientating program that I was supposed to have once I got to this layer of programming. That whole night until I fell asleep, I was terrified someone was going to come and get me or kill me because I had remembered all this. I realized this was also programming. The next day I felt a lot better, having worked through the feelings accompanying these programs. I began to work on unraveling the memories and programs that had been put in me.

I realized that I was trained by delta force programs, to kill. I had memories of being put on planes with groups of other mk‑ultra delta survivors to do certain jobs, usually to kill, but sometimes to get information. My jobs varied on different missions. Sometimes I killed but I was also supposed to clean up and/or be a lookout.

I have memories of sometimes being drugged or blindfolded or having a rope tied around me so I wouldn’t know exactly where we were going or what we were doing. It was usually dark and my vision had never been very good anyway. Missions were on a “need to know” basis.

Now I realize I am a survivor of Illuminati programming, Masonic section. The Illuminati symbols had always bothered me, they are sometimes similar to the Masonic ones and historically, I believe the groups are connected. I was also used in mk‑ultra type experiments to see how someone would react and how much pain they could take before passing out, at least on the East Coast. This fits with my extremely high pain threshold.

After having all of these memories, I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of me. I had not had any major memories in a while. I also felt much stronger and much more confident. I am now much more aware of triggers and much more in tune with my gut feelings about what and who is and isn’t safe. This increased confidence had helped me state my needs clearer and stronger in my relationships with others. I am also a lot less afraid and terrified of the world. I think that this is due to the fact that I have worked through a lot of fear and confusion or disorientation type programming. I have increased clarity and energy because I no longer need to hold all of this inside me anymore behind amnesic barriers. (https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑34‑september‑2000/ )

In the early 2000’s. SMART Newsletter began to cover clergy abuse issues and other cult abuse and mind control cases. Though these cases had been discussed since the 1990’s, they became well known in 2002. SMART Newsletter March 2002 – Issue 43 discusses a wide variety of clergy abuse cases including those in the Boston area.  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑43‑march‑2002/ These cases showed how severe abuse crimes can be covered up for decades.

One major case was described in Geoghan found guilty of sex abuse – Boy was assaulted at Waltham pool By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff, 1/19/2002 AThe Archdiocese of Boston, which has settled 50 civil lawsuits filed by victims of Geoghan at a cost of at least $10 million, released a three‑paragraph statement saying it was grateful that a verdict had been reached….Geoghan has been accused of molesting at least 130 children since the 1960s, but he has been criminally charged with assaulting just three. Geoghan is also named in 84 civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. https://web.archive.org/web/20020208002253/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/019/metro/Geoghan_found_guilty_of_sex_abuse+.shtml

We have additional articles listed at https://ritualabuse.us/research/clergy‑abuse/

In 2008, we published information on the Extreme Abuse Survey.  https://extreme‑abuse‑survey.org/   The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf‑files. More than 750 pages of documentation.

Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys B Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November). Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.

10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma

1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.

2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).

3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.

4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.

5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government‑sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).

6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized Aknown@ crime.

7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.

8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.

9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.

10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems.

http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/understanding‑ritual‑trauma‑a‑comparison‑of‑findings‑from‑three‑online‑surveys  https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/

MEDIA PACKET – Torture‑based, Government‑sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children   Documentation that torture‑based, government‑sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation was conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two international surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to survivors of these crimes against humanity. SURVEYS B EAS: Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse) January 1 – March 30, 2007 with 1471 respondents from 31-named countries. P‑EAS: Professional B Extreme Abuse Survey (An international Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors, Clergy, and Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least One Adult Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1  June 30 2007 with 451 respondents from 20 named countries.  https://web.archive.org/web/20100215090206/http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments‑MediaPacket.pdf  

In 2007, Carol Rutz presented at our SMART conference – The World Will Know: Results of the 2007 International Survey For Adult  Survivors of Extreme Abuse – Transcript from Carol Rutz’s presentation at The Tenth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference, August, 2007.  Carol Rutz is a survivor of SRA and Government Mind Control Experiments. Her book is A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on our Children and Other Innocent People.  https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/conf07/the‑world‑will‑know‑results‑of‑the‑2007‑international‑survey‑for‑adult‑survivors‑of‑extreme‑abuse/

Additional EAS resources are listed at: https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

The SMART conference had unfortunately attracted media attacks. We found that for the most part the media was not interested in being objective or citing the actual research we had developed over the years.

In 2009, our conference was attended by a now well known child abuse skeptic, Douglas Misicko.

Douglas Misicko has used various aliases to attack survivors. His best known aliases are Doug Mesner and Lucien Greaves (of the Satanic Temple). He did not notify the conference that he was a journalist. He and his group (The Satanic Temple and Grey Faction) has attacked many other survivor and professional groups, including Survivorship.org and the ISSTD.  His groups have also harassed clinicians, filing licensing complaints against them.  He worked with the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and has continued their work since they have closed down. SMART and others groups have successfully rebutted his false claims against DID sufferers and ritual abuse survivors.

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet:

For almost a decade Douglas Misicko using several aliases (including Douglas Mesner and Lucien Greaves) has harassed groups helping child abuse, rape and trauma survivors. He has also harassed groups providing research in support of child abuse, rape and trauma survivors.

In 2013, he and others created a group called the Satanic Temple. One part of this group is called the Grey Faction. The Grey Faction states they “invade” conferences. These conferences are provided to help and educate child abuse, rape and trauma survivors and their helpers.  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey‑faction‑satanic‑temple‑and‑lucien‑greaves‑fact‑sheet/

Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience: Denial that memories can be repressed.  Pseudoscience: Denial that DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is caused by trauma. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑pseudoscience/

Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple, Grey Faction) Anti‑Semitic Statements, Eugenics Policy, Interview with former KKK member and neo‑Nazi group founder  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/doug‑mesner‑lucien‑greaves‑satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑anti‑semitic‑statements‑eugenics‑policy‑interview‑with‑former‑kkk‑member‑and‑neo‑nazi‑group‑founder

Stop Misinformation and Attacks on Survivors of Trauma and Their Helpers by The Satanic Temple=s Grey Faction https://www.change.org/p/trauma‑survivors‑and‑their‑helpers‑stop‑attacks‑on‑survivors‑of‑trauma‑by‑the‑satanic‑temple‑s‑grey‑faction

In March 2020, COVID became a global pandemic.  This changed the world interacted and presented data and research. SMART moved to online conferences in 2020.  This allowed survivors from all around the world to attend our conference. We posted our conference presentations online with their pdfs, so that all survivors could watch the videos, even if they were unable to attend the conference. We eventually moved our newsletters entirely to email and webpages, no longer printing and mailing newsletters.

In the thirty years that SMART has been in existence, we have developed one of the largest databases in the world for survivors and their supporters.

Our newsletters contain data about child abuse, ritual abuse, cults, mind control, DID/MPD, dissociation, sex trafficking and trauma.   https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/

Content listings for all of our newsletters: https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/

All twenty seven of our past conferences are listed at https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/  We have conference transcripts available from 1999 – 2024 and videos available from 2020 – 2024.

We have strong data that shows ritual abuse exists all over the world. We cite reports, journal articles, web pages and the criminal convictions of these horrific crimes against children and adults. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

We have a large list of ritual abuse references  http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic‑ritual‑abuse‑evidence‑with‑information‑on‑the‑mcmartin‑preschool‑case/  Satanic Ritual Abuse evidence with information on the McMartin Preschool Case

One of the major areas child abuse skeptics have attacked child abuse survivors is the area of ritual abuse day care cases.  SMART has worked hard to present accurate information about these criminal cases.  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day‑care‑and‑child‑abuse‑cases/

We presented information about the McMartin Child Abuse Case and Michelle Remembers above.

Our page also covers the Fells Acres – Amirault Case, the Wenatchee, Washington Case, the Dale Akiki Case, the Glendale Montessori – Toward case, the Little Rascals Day Care Center case, Fran’s Day Care case, the Baran case, the Halsey case, the West Memphis 3 case, the Friedman’s case,   the Christchurch Civic Creche sex abuse – Peter Ellis case, the Ramona case and the West Point Day Care Case.

We have published research on propaganda and mind control issues https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/

We have published research on mk‑ultra, the CIA, mind control, Operation Paperclip and the Nazis, the 1995 congressional hearings, the 2010 veterans vs CIA court case, Artichoke, the CIA Supreme Court cases, Ewen Cameron and the Sleep Room and the MK/Naomi project. This includes information on the ACHES hearings discussed above. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc‑documents‑links/  We have had several conference presentations covering these issues.

Here is a small selection of important links.  These may be triggering to RA/MC survivors.

The Shock Doctrine B by Naomi Klein B Chapter 1 B The Torture Lab B Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind.   http://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0805079831#PPA25,M1

1995 U. S. congressional hearing: MKULTRA Victim Claudia Mullen  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=het0FIAtH3M

MKULTRA Victim Christine DeNicola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=‑cS6QW3sXzQ

MKULTRA Victim Full Testimony (U.S. Mind Control Child Abuse Victims A‑C Testimony, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Public Meeting, Washington DC, March 1995. Valerie Wolf (A), Chris DeNicola Tucson Arizona (B), Claudia Mullen (C): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhpRmsEq44

Mind Control Survivors – Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf – Claudia Mullen – Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html

Valerie Wolf – Therapist of mind control survivors who gave testimony about mind control experiments in the 1995 US Presidential hearings on radiation experiments. http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html

http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm

1977 Congressional Hearings Project MKULTRA, The CIA=s Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY‑FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION AUGUST 3, 1977   http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf

Project Paperclip

Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex‑Nazis by SAM ROBERTS December 11, 2010 After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html

The report, Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War, (HITLER’S SHADOW Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda Published by the National Archives  http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers‑shadow.pdf

SMART has also done extensive research on DID/MPD, dissociation, trauma and recovered memory accuracy.  https://ritualabuse.us/research/ 

This research rebuts the pseudoscientific research of the child abuse skeptics.

Here is a small sampling of our research.

Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia B 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. They have also been defined as the recollections of memories that are believed to have been unavailable for a certain period of time. 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. There is scientific evidence in support of the phenomena of dissociation and recovered memory in Holocaust survivors.  https://ritualabuse.us/research/recovered‑memories‑and‑dissociative‑amnesia‑scientific‑evidence‑and‑accuracy‑rates/

Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory. http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑data/

Recovered memory corroboration rates B There are many studies that show fairly high corroboration rates for recovered memories.  http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑corroboration‑rates/

Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSM IV TR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct,  MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources   http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/basic‑information‑on‑didmpd/

Delineates the etiological antecedents of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and enumerates upon the scientific evidence proving the existence of DID. This paper explains the diagnostic criteria of DID, its incidence rates and cross‑cultural characteristics, present arguments to counter the idea that suggestibility may be a factor in its misdiagnosis and delineate the data that shows a clear connection between traumatic wartime experiences and dissociation and trauma and DID. It considers the historical development of the debate surrounding DID, including its increased diagnosis around the turn of the last century, reasons for its decline in diagnosis in the mid part of the last century and reasons for its increased diagnosis toward the end of the 20th century. It deliberates upon the claims made by several researchers that DID can be created in the laboratory as well as the critiques surrounding those claims. It discusses the neurobiological evidence proving the connection between DID and certain neurobiological indicators. Included is a discussion of the modern theory of iatrogenic DID and a critique of this theory. A debate about the creation of DID as a social construction and critiques of this theory are presented as well. It concludes, by presenting the argument that the research on DID shows it to be a valid psychiatric diagnosis which robustly meets all the necessary validity requirements. http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/the‑etymological‑antecedents‑of‑and‑scientific‑evidence‑for‑the‑existence‑of‑dissociative‑identity‑disorder/

On our website’s main page https://ritualabuse.us 

Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today

SMART is celebrating our 30th anniversary.

S.M.A.R.T. ritual abuse newsletter was founded in 1995 by Neil Brick. http://neilbrick.com

The purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is to help stop ritual abuse and child abuse and to help those who have been ritually abused.  We work toward this goal by disseminating information on the connections between secretive organizations, ritual abuse, and mind control and by providing resources to survivors of child abuse, ritual abuse and mind control.

We publish scientific information about ritual abuse and trauma crimes.

We have this web site, a bimonthly newsletter, an e‑mail discussion list, and annual conferences. If you have resources with information about ritual abuse and mind control, especially information about secretive organizations, please send them to smartnews@aol.com for inclusion in the newsletter. Please note: S.M.A.R.T. has no paid employees and all money paid to S.M.A.R.T. goes toward efforts to educate survivors and the general public about survivor issues and research.

Advocacy and public education are crucial to developing a safer world for children, child and ritual abuse survivors and the entire world.  Trauma can cause severe damage to its victims, as shown by the ACE study https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html

We can prevent trauma, but we need to discuss it and acknowledge its existence.  Over the last thirty years, progress has been made to expose child abuse, sexual abuse and RA/MC crimes.  Many of the sources listed on the Internet are now pro-survivor and accurate.  A few biased ones, like wikipedia, which has biased and inaccurate pages which attack the reality of child abuse crimes still unfortunately exist.

Wikipedia has a long history of problems with accuracy, bias and allegations of connections to pedophilia and pornography. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/wikipedia‑has‑a‑long‑history‑of‑problems

ritualabuse.us blacklisted by wikipedia

https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/ritualabuse‑us‑blacklisted‑by‑wikipedia/

The Truth about Satanic Ritual Abuse – Wikipedia rebuttal  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the‑truth‑about‑satanic‑ritual‑abuse/

SMART recommends that people do not use Wikipedia as a source of information for child abuse or other topics, due to its potential for having inaccurate and biased information.

The good news is that there are many accurate pages now on the Internet.  Over the last thirty years, the exposure of clergy abuse, cult abuse, sex trafficking and serial pedophiles with legal consequences, has helped the general public learn about the high numbers of abuse and mind control victims.

We still have work to do.  People are still strongly affected by propaganda and mind control. We can fight this by telling the people we know how to avoid being controlled by these techniques. We need to publish more research, build more websites and use social networking to let everyone know about the realities of ritual abuse and mind control.

We have come a long way to exposing RA/MC crimes. As the Extreme Abuse Survey says: The World Will Know

Contact information

S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us 

Neil Brick http://neilbrick.com

E‑mail address smartnews@aol.com

Reference List

 In order of presentation

S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us

Neil Brick http://neilbrick.com

E‑mail address smartnews@aol.com

Michelle Remembers  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/michelle‑remembers/

Chronology of the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup/

Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site, Manhattan Beach, California  http://web.archive.org/web/20010123212200/members.cruzio.com/~ratf/McMartin.html/

Large collection of data and articles on the McMartin Preschool Case https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup/

Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse ‑ excerpts https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/2023‑conference/the‑effects‑of‑social‑movements‑ on‑survivor‑support‑systems‑and‑survivor‑recovery‑neil‑brick

“Greenbaum Speech” Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse audio https://archive.org/embed/thegreenbaumspeech&playlist=1&autoplay=1

“Greenbaum Speech” Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse text https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e9ece3e4b074062a41314d/t/5c53a2e1104c7bd8f7751256/1548985059033/The+Greenbaum+Speech%2C+Corry+Hammond.pdf

CKLN‑FM Mind Control Series ‑‑ Part 3 Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf ‑‑ Claudia Mullen ‑‑ Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html

MKULTRA victims ‑ Claudia Mullen Testimony https://vimeo.com/26846581

MKUlLTRA victims ‑ Valerie Wolf & Christine deNicola Testimonies

Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory by Brian Moss, MA, MFT https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/disinformation‑and‑did‑the‑politics‑of‑memory

Claudia Mullen SMART information  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑17‑november‑1997/

Reference list for all of our newsletters https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/

We also have a search engine bar at our website  https://ritualabuse.us in the top right hand corner.

SMART #34 Neil Brick article https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑34‑september‑2000/ )

SMART Newsletter March 2002 ‑ Issue 43 clergy abuse cases including those in the Boston area.  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑43‑march‑2002

One major case was described in Geoghan found guilty of sex abuse ‑ Boy was assaulted at Waltham pool By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff, 1/19/2002

https://web.archive.org/web/20020208002253/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/019/metro/Geoghan_found_guilty_of_sex_abuse+.shtml

Clergy abuse articles https://ritualabuse.us/research/clergy‑abuse/

Extreme Abuse Survey.  https://extreme‑abuse‑survey.org/

Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys – Handout  for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November).

http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/understanding‑ritual‑trauma‑a‑comparison‑of‑findings‑from‑three‑online‑surveys   https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/

MEDIA PACKET B Torture‑based, Government‑sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children ‑ Extreme Abuse Survey  https://web.archive.org/web/20100215090206/http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments‑MediaPacket.pdf

In 2007, Carol Rutz presented at our SMART conference ‑ The World Will Know: Results of the 2007 International Survey For Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse ‑ Transcript from Carol Rutz=s presentation at The Tenth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference, August, 2007  https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/conf07/the‑world‑will‑know‑results‑of‑the‑2007‑international‑survey‑for‑adult‑survivors‑of‑extreme‑abuse/

Additional EAS resources are listed at: https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey‑faction‑satanic‑temple‑and‑lucien‑greaves‑fact‑sheet/

Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑pseudoscience/

Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple, Grey Faction) Anti‑Semitic Statements, Eugenics Policy, Interview with former KKK member and neo‑Nazi group founder   https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/doug‑mesner‑lucien‑greaves‑satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑anti‑semitic‑statements‑eugenics‑policy‑interview‑with‑former‑kkk‑member‑and‑neo‑nazi‑group‑founder

Stop Misinformation and Attacks on Survivors of Trauma and Their Helpers by The Satanic Temple=s Grey Faction https://www.change.org/p/trauma‑survivors‑and‑their‑helpers‑stop‑attacks‑on‑survivors‑of‑trauma‑by‑the‑satanic‑temple‑s‑grey‑faction/

SMART Newsletters contain data about child abuse, ritual abuse, cults, mind control, DID/MPD, dissociation, sex trafficking and trauma.   https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/

Content listings for all of our newsletters; https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/

SMART past conference informationare https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/

Conference transcripts available from 1999 ‑ 2024 and videos available from 2020 ‑ 2024.

Data that shows ritual abuse exists all over the world. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

Large list of ritual abuse references   http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic‑ritual‑abuse‑evidence‑with‑information‑on‑the‑mcmartin‑preschool‑case/  Satanic Ritual Abuse evidence with information on the McMartin Preschool Case

Day Care and Child Abuse Cases  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day‑care‑and‑child‑abuse‑cases/

Research on propaganda and mind control issues https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/

Research on mk‑ultra, the CIA, mind control, Operation Paperclip and the Nazis, the 1995 congressional hearings, the 2010 veterans vs CIA court case,  Artichoke, the CIA Supreme Court cases, Ewen Cameron and the Sleep Room and the MK/Naomi project. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc‑documents‑links/

The Shock Doctrine – by Naomi Klein B Chapter 1 – The Torture Lab – Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind.  http://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0805079831#PPA25,M1

1995 U. S. congressional hearing:  MKULTRA Victim Claudia Mullen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=het0FIAtH3M

MKULTRA Victim Christine DeNicola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=‑cS6QW3sXzQ

MKULTRA Victim Full Testimony (U.S. Mind Control Child Abuse Victims A‑C Testimony, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Public Meeting, Washington DC, March 1995. Valerie Wolf (A), Chris DeNicola Tucson Arizona (B), Claudia Mullen (C): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhpRmsEq44

Mind Control Survivors – Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings:  Valerie Wolf – Claudia Mullen – Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html

Valerie Wolf – Therapist of mind control survivors who gave testimony about mind control experiments in the 1995 US Presidential hearings on radiation experiments. http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html   http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm

1977 Congressional Hearings  Project MKULTRA, The CIA=s Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY‑FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION AUGUST 3, 1977  http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf

Project Paperclip

Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex‑Nazis By SAM ROBERTS December 11, 2010  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html

Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War, ( HITLER’S SHADOW Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda Published by the National Archives  http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers‑shadow.pdf

Extensive research on DID/MPD, dissociation, trauma and recovered memory accuracy.  https://ritualabuse.us/research/

Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia B Scientific Evidence and Accuracy Rates https://ritualabuse.us/research/recovered‑memories‑and‑dissociative‑amnesia‑scientific‑evidence‑and‑accuracy‑rates/

Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory   http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑data/

Recovered memory corroboration rates B There are many studies that show fairly high corroboration rates for recovered  memories.  http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑corroboration‑rates/

Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSM IV TR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct,  MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources  B http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/basic‑information‑on‑didmpd/

Delineates the etiological antecedents of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and enumerates upon the scientific evidence proving the existence of DID. http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/the‑etymological‑antecedents‑of‑and‑scientific‑evidence‑for‑the‑existence‑of‑dissociative‑identity‑disorder/

SMART’s main page https://ritualabuse.us

Neil Brick web page http://neilbrick.com

ACE study https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html

Wikipedia has a long history of problems with accuracy, bias and allegations of connections to pedophilia and pornography. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/wikipedia‑has‑a‑long‑history‑of‑problems

ritualabuse.us blacklisted by wikipedia   https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/ritualabuse‑us‑blacklisted‑by‑wikipedia/

The Truth about Satanic Ritual Abuse – Wikipedia rebuttal https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the‑truth‑about‑satanic‑ritual‑abuse/

Bennett G. Braun’s research - with full bibliography

 

Bennett G. Braun’s research (full bibliography at the bottom of the page)

copied with permission

https://ritualabuse.us/smart/bennett-braun/

(with information about the Burgus v. Braun legal case)

Bennett Braun was a famous doctor that worked in the field of dissociation and trauma in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. He created the BASK Model of Dissociation, a model for understanding and healing dissociation that is still used by some today.

The BASK Model of Dissociation Bennett G. Braun, M.D. ABSTRACT The BASK model conceptualizes the complex phenomenology of dissociation along with dimensions of Behavior, Affect, Sensation, and Knowledge. The process of dissociation itself, hypnosis, and the clinical mental disorders that constitute the dissociative disorders are described in terms of this model, and illustrated.
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1276/Diss_1_1_2_OCR_rev.pdf

Psychiatry Research
Volume 15, Issue 4, August 1985, Pages 253-260
Psychiatry Research
Dissociative states in multiple personality disorder: A quantitative study
Edward K.Silberman
Frank W.Putnam Herbert Weingartner Bennett G. Braun Robert M.Post
https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1781(85)90062-9
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients may experience themselves as several discrete alter personalities who do not share consciousness or memories with one another. In this study, we asked whether MPD patients are different from controls in their ability to learn and remember, and their ability to compartmentalize information. MPD patients were not found to differ from controls in overall memory level. Learning of information by MPD patients in disparate personality states did not result in greater compartmentalization than that of which control subjects were capable. However, there were qualitative differences between the cognitive performance of patients and that of controls attempting to role-play alter personalities. Our results suggest that simple confabulation is not an adequate model for the MPD syndrome, and we consider a possible role for state-dependent learning in the phenomenology of MPD.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0165178185900629

Intellectual functioning of inpatients with dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified.
Rossini, E. D., Schwartz, D. R., & Braun, B. G. (1996). Intellectual functioning of inpatients with dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 184(5), 289–294. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199605000-00004
Abstract
Examined the intellectual functioning of 50 inpatients with multiple personality disorder (MPD) and 55 inpatients with dissociative disorder (DSD) not otherwise specified using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised (WAIS–R) as part of a comprehensive research protocol. No significant intellectual differences were found between MPD and DSD Ss on any major IQ summary score or on any of the age-adjusted empirical factor scores. A significant subsample of MPD Ss manifested abnormal intertest scatter on the WAIS-R verbal subtests, and this variability was attributed to subtle neuropsychological deficits on the Memory/Distractibility factor. Results suggest that dissociative patients might need to be evaluated for attention deficit disorder in addition to the range of dissociative symptoms in a comprehensive evaluation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-00445-004

Rorschach Indicators of Multiple Personality Disorder Sep 1992 SUSAN M. LABOTT. FRANK LEAVITT. BENNETT G. BRAUN, ROBERTA G. SACHS
The increase in reported cases of Multiple Personality Disorder underscores a great need to differentiate clearly this from other psychiatric disorders and from simulation of Multiple Personality Disorder. Two sets of Rorschach signs have been advanced as clinical markers by their developers, namely Barach and also Wagner, Allison, and Wagner.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1009.5788&rep=rep1&type=pdf

From https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Bennett-G-Braun-73957132

Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 120-124 : Frequency of EEG abnormalities in a large dissociative population
Article Jun 1997
Bennett G. Braun David R. Schwartz Howard M. Kravitz Jordan Waxman
Frequency of EEG abnormalities in a large dissociative population
Article Jun 1997 B.G. Braun D.R. Schwartz H.M. Kravitz J. Waxman
A retrospective chart review was conducted to determine the frequency of electroencephalographic abnormalities, particularly those suggesting temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), among patients with dissociative disorders.

Factor analytic investigation of the WAIS-R among patients with dissociative psychopathology
Article Mar 1997 D.R. Schwartz E.D. Rossini B.G. Braun G.M. Stein
The factor structure of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) was examined among 133 participants diagnosed with a dissociative disorder.

Patterns of Dissociation in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples
Dec 1996 FRANK W. PUTNAM Eve B Carlson Colin A. Ross BENNETT G. BRAUN
Research has consistently found elevated mean dissociation scores in particular diagnostic groups.

Validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale in screening for Multiple Personality Disorder: A multicenter study
Article Aug 1993 Eve B Carlson F W Putnam Colin A. Ross B G Braun
The Dissociative Experiences Scale has proved a reliable and valid instrument to measure dissociation in many groups, but its capacity to distinguish patients with multiple personality disorder from patients with other psychiatric disorders has not yet been conclusively tested.

Psychopathology, Hypnotizability, and dissociation Article Dec 1992 E J Frischholz L S Lipman B G Braun
R G Sachs
The purpose of the study was to replicate and extend previous findings regarding the hypnotizability of different clinical groups. The authors compared the differential hypnotizability of four psychiatric groups–patients with dissociative disorders (N = 17), schizophrenia (N = 13), mood disorders (N = 13), and anxiety disorders (N = 14)

Bupropion-Associated Mania in a Patient with HIV Infection Nov 1992 Christopher Glenn Fichtner BENNETT G. BRAUN

Construct Validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale: II. Its Relationship to Hypnotizability
Oct 1992 Edward J. Frischholz Bennett G. Braun Roberta G. Sachs Jim Pasquotto
Undergraduates (n = 311) who volunteered to participate in an experiment on “Hypnotizability and Personality” filled out several personality questionnaires (including the Dissociative Experiences Scale; DES), were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS), and completed a self-rating of hypnotizability.

Suggested Posthypnotic Amnesia in Psychiatric Patients and Normals Aug 1992 Edward J. Frischholz Bennett G. Braun Laurie S. Lipman Roberta Sachs
The present study examined both quantitative and qualitative hypnotizability differences among four psychiatric patient groups (dissociative disorder (n = 17), schizophrenic (n = 13), mood disorder (n = 14), and anxiety disorder (n = 14) patients), and normals (college students (n = 63).

Construct validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES): I. The relationship between the DES and other self-report measures of DES. Dec 1991 Edward J. Frischholz Bennett G. Braun Roberta G. Sachs David R. Schwartz
Administered the DES, the Tellegen Absorption Scale (ABS), the Perceptual Alteration Scale (PAS), the Yellen Ambiguity Intolerance Scale (YAIS), and the Jenkins Activity Schedule to 311 undergraduates. The DES total score (and 3 DES factor scores) correlated with the ABS and PAS and YAIS overall scores.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1009.5788&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Historical reliability: a key to differentiating populations among patients presenting signs of multiple personality disorder. Nov 1991 FRANK LEAVITT BENNETT BRAUN
The clinical value of inconsistencies in the historical data of patients presenting with signs of multiple personality disorder was assessed. Three major inconsistencies in historical data were identified in 23 patients who were admitted to a Dissociative Disorders Program with a diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder.

Patients reporting ritual abuse in childhood: A clinical syndrome. Report of 37 cases
Feb 1991 Walter C. Young Roberta G. Sachs Bennett G. Braun Ruth T. Watkins
Thirty-seven adult dissociative disorder patients who reported ritual abuse in childhood by satanic cults are described. Patients came from a variety of separate clinical settings and geographical locations and reported a number of similar abuses. The most frequently reported types of ritual abuse are outlined, and a clinical syndrome is presented.

Construct validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES): I. The relation between the des and other self-report measures of dissociation Jan 1991 E.J. Frischholz B.G. Braun R.G. Sachs J. Pasquotto

The Dissociative Experiences Scale: Further replication and validation
Sep 1990 Edward J. Frischholz Bennett G. Braun Roberta G. Sachs
Administered the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) of E. M. Bernstein and F. W. Putnam (see record 1987-14407-001) to 259 college students, 33 patients with multiple personality disorder (MPD), and 29 patients with a dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS). The interrater reliability for the DES scoring procedure was excellent.

Hypnosis and Eyewitness Testimony Feb 1986 Patrick A Tuite Bennett G Braun Edward J Frischholz
DISSOCIATIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY David R. Schwartz Edward Rossini Bennett G. Braun M. Stein
The factor structure of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) was examined among 133 participants diagnosed with a dissociative disorder . The results of two and three factor orthogonal solutions with varimax rotation were obtained .

Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder

Bennett G. Braun

https://books.google.com/books?id=kPxuNFMOzQkC&pg=PR7&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Disciplined doctor licensed in Montana – Associated Press – October 16, 2003 By Bob Anez
After legal attacks in the 1990’s, he agreed to a two-year suspension of his medical license in October 1999 and was given five years probation after accusations by a former patient. Braun had stated that he didn’t contest his license suspension and $5,000 fine because he was exhausted financially, emotionally and physically. He said he spent about $500,000 to initially fight the disciplinary case.

Candidate accused by former patient by Thomas R. O’Donnell – Des Moines Register – 10/28/98 – “A former Iowan who won a $10.6 million settlement from a Chicago hospital and two psychiatrists said the diagnosis of multiple personalities and repressed memories of satanic cults that led to her lawsuit originated with a West Des Moines clinical social worker. But the social worker, Ann-Marie Baughman, now a Polk County legislative candidate, said that when she started counseling Patricia Burgus in 1982, Burgus was a troubled woman who was threatening to kill herself and others. Burgus…also was displaying behavior that Baughman could not understand. “It was the physical changes more than just the verbal expressions of what she was telling me” that led Baughman to conclude she was seeing multiple personalities. The “muscles in her face would all relax . . . and she would just look different. It was just the eeriest thing….But suggestions that Braun somehow planted the horrific memories in Burgus’ head are wrong, Baughman said, because they started surfacing during her sessions with Burgus in Des Moines….In the settlement, reached last fall after six years of litigation, neither the hospital nor the psychiatrists, Braun and Elva Poznanski, admitted fault. Braun has said his insurance company settled over his objections.”

Here’s a summary of the research on Burgus v. Braun et al that was presented by a researcher at the 2002 International Society for the Study of Dissociation conference in Baltimore

In 1993 the Burgus family filed a malpractice lawsuit against Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Dr. Elva Poznanski, the boys” psychiatrist, and Dr. Bennett Braun, Pat’s psychiatrist…Before her hospitalization at Rush in 1983, Pat spent most days in bed in with the curtains drawn, unable to care for herself. She threatened to kill herself and others. Her husband came home for lunch to make sure the boys were fed. She became convinced that the doctor who did her tubal ligation had implanted a fetus during the surgery. She approached mothers of infant daughters, asking them if they would trade their daughter for her infant son, Mikey. Pat entered Rush diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. Upon admission Pat was agitated and incoherent. During her first month on the unit and before she was placed on meds, Pat told staff “I’m switching [personalities] out of control today. I’m doing so much switching today I can’t believe it.” Pat testified that the rapid switching decreased over time as her medications were increased….Other patients said they recognized her from her participation in cult-related criminal activities. At the time of her release from Rush in 1987 Pat was more stable and integrated. Did Pat’s psychiatrist implant false memories as Pat has claimed? On January 17, 1997, a defense attorney asked Pat about the source of her memories. Pat repeatedly conceded that she had originated all the memories herself. Her psychiatrist did not implant any memories. He had simply passed on to her what the other patients had reported.” https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2010-conference/the-move-from-blame-the-victim-to-blame-the-helper/

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Braun, B. G. (1979, October). Hypnosis creates multiple personality: Myth or reality? Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Denver.

Braun, B. G. (1980). Hypnosis for multiple personality. In H. J. Wain (Ed.), Clinical hypnosis in medicine (pp. 209–218). Chicago: Yearbook Medical Publishers.

Braun, B. G. (1982). Multiple personality: Form, function and phenomena. Privately printed and distributed.

Braun, B. G. (1983). Psychophysiological phenomena in multiple personality and hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 26(2), 124–137. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.1983.10404152

Abstract: Demonstrates similarities in psychophysiologic phenomena found in multiple personality disorder (MPD), individuals using hypnosis, and others who did not use hypnosis. The use of hypnosis is outlined for cases involving allergic responses, dermatologic reactions, the automatic nervous system, the CNS, seizure disorders, and pain control. Eight case vignettes featuring MPD patients and citations of related phenomena from the hypnosis literature are presented. Hypnotic healing mechanisms and possible unifying concepts for these parallels are discussed. It is suggested that a form of hypnosis/autohypnosis may be a common denominator underlying these phenomena. (90 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Braun, B. G. (1984a). Hypnosis creates multiple personality: Myth or reality? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 32(2), 191–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207148408416009

Abstract: Since the 19th century, multiple personality has been associated with hysteria and hypnosis. The myth that hypnosis can create multiple personality is examined through a review of studies that have suggested or implied a casual link between hypnosis and multiple personality. While it is possible that personality fragments can appear under hypnosis, there is no evidence that personalities with separate life histories and a full range of affect can be created with hypnosis. Such personality fragments typically appear only for a limited time and are readily reintegrated. It is concluded that hypnosis is a valuable tool in diagnosing and treating multiple personalities. (French, German & Spanish abstracts)

Braun, B. G. (1984b). Towards a theory of multiple personality and other dissociative phenomena. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Symposium on multiple personality. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 7, 171–194.

Kluft, R.P., Braun, B. G., & Sachs, R.G. (1984). Multiple personality disorder, intrafamilial abuse, and family psychiatry. International Journal of Family Psychiatry, 5(4), 303–313.

Lipman, L. S., Braun, B. G., & Frischholz, E. J. (1984). Hypnotizability and multiple personality disorder: Part I, overall hypnotic responsivity. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1984: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States (p. 100). Chicago: Rush-St. Luke’s-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Frischholz, E. J., Lipman, E. S., & Braun, B. G. (1984). Hypnosis in multiple personality disorder: Part II, special hypnotic phenomena. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1984: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States (p. 101). Chicago: Rush-St. Luke’s-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Horevitz, R. & Braun, B.G. (1984). Are Multiple Personalities Borderline?: An Analysis of 33 Cases. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 7(1): 69-87. DOI:10.1016/S0193-953X(18)30781-0

Abstract: The authors detail their investigation into the positive relationship between borderline personality and multiple personality and present their finding that although borderline personality disorder is very prevalent in patients with multiple personality disorder, it is not universal and is a separate and distinct disorder.

Braun, B. G. & Sachs, R. G. (1985). The development of multiple personality disorder. In R. P. Kluft (Ed.), Childhood antecedents of multiple personality (pp. 37–64). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Braun, B. G. (1985a). The transgenerational incidence of dissociation and multiple personality disorder. In R. P. Kluft (Ed.), Childhood antecedents of multiple personality (pp. 127–150). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Braun, B. G. (1985b). Dissociation: Behavior, affect, sensation, knowledge. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1985: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States (p. 6). Chicago: Rush-St. Luke’s-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Silberman, E. K., Putnam, F. W., Weingartner, H., Braun, B. G., & Post, R. M. (1985). Dissociative states in multiple personality disorder: a quantitative study. Psychiatry research, 15(4), 253–260. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1781(85)90062-9

Abstract: Multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients may experience themselves as several discrete alter personalities who do not share consciousness or memories with one another. In this study, we asked whether MPD patients are different from controls in their ability to learn and remember, and their ability to compartmentalize information. MPD patients were not found to differ from controls in overall memory level. Learning of information by MPD patients in disparate personality states did not result in greater compartmentalization than that of which control subjects were capable. However, there were qualitative differences between the cognitive performance of patients and that of controls attempting to role-play alter personalities. Our results suggest that simple confabulation is not an adequate model for the MPD syndrome, and we consider a possible role for state-dependent learning in the phenomenology of MPD.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0165178185900629

Braun, B. G. & Sachs, R. G. (1985). The development of multiple personality disorder: Predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors. In R. P. Kluft (Ed.), Childhood antecedents of multiple personality (pp. 37–64). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Braun, B. G., & Gray, G. T. (1986). Report on the 1985 questionnaire on multiple personality disorder. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1986: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multiple Personality /Dissociative States (p. 111). Chicago: Rush-St. Luke’s-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Sachs, R. G., & Braun, B. G. (1986). The use of sand trays with the MPD patient. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1986: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States (p. 61). Chicago: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center.

Schultz, R., Braun, B. G., & Kluft, R. P. (1986). The interface between multiple personality disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1986: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States (p. 111). Chicago: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center.

Braun, B. G. (1986a). Dissociation: An overview. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC.

Braun, B. G. (1986b). Issues in the psychotherapy of multiple personality disorder. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Treatment of multiple personality disorder (pp. 1–28). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Barkin, R., Braun, B. G., & Kluft, R. P. (1986). The dilemma of drug therapy for multiple personality disorder. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Treatment of multiple personality disorder (pp. 107–132). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Braun, B. & Horevitz, R. (1986). Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. Psychiatric Annals 16(2):81-86

DOI:10.3928/0048-5713-19860201-07

Abstract: Differentiates between hypnotic inductions, trance development and deepening procedures, and the use of hypnotic techniques independent of hypnotic trance. It is argued that hypnosis can be applied in any psychotherapy framework and utilizes strengths and capacities of the patient that might not otherwise be accessible. The author describes how a patient can be prepared for hypnosis and the utility of hypnotic training before formal treatment is begun. Potential psychotherapeutic applications of hypnosis in memory enhancement, dealing with selective amnesia, and achieving volitional control of physiological processes are discussed, and the case of a 36-yr-old woman is presented.

Tuite, P.A., Braun, B.G., & Frischholz, E.J. (1986). Hypnosis and Eyewitness Testimony. Psychiatric Annals, 16, 91-95.

Braun, B. G. (1988a). The BASK (behavior, affect, sensation, knowledge) model of dissociation. Dissociation, 1 (1), 4–23.

ABSTRACT: The BASK model conceptualizes the complex phenomenology of dissociation along with dimensions of Behavior, Affect, Sensation, and Knowledge. The process of dissociation itself, hypnosis, and the clinical mental disorders that constitute the dissociative disorders are described in terms of this model, and illustrated.

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1276/Diss_1_1_2_OCR_rev.pdf

Braun, B. G. (1988b). The BASK model of dissociation: Part II: Treatment. Dissociation, 1 (2), 16–23.

ABSTRACT: This article is a continuation of the BASK Model ofDissociation: Part 1, which discussed the phenomena and theory of dissociation. It uses the previously described BASK Model (Behavior, Affea, Sensation, Knowledge levels within a time continuum) and applies it to treatment. Since treatment is a dynamic concept and knowledge is a static term, BASK is changed to BA TS, wherein the active term “thought” is substituted for “knowledge. ” The interrelationship of the various dimensions of the BATS model is demonstrated and described. The BASK format is used to describe how a behavior, affect, thought and/or sensation clue is used to track down and synthesize the BASK/BATS components in psychotherapy through work with different personalities and/or fragments. A main thesis is that congruence of the BASK/BATS levels across the space/time continuum is required for healthy functioning. It is hoped from this discussion that the reader will get a sufficient understanding the Sheridan Road Hospital. of the practical use of the BASK model and that he/she might apply it to her/his school and practice of psychotherapy.

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1340/Diss_1_2_3_OCR_rev.pdf

Sachs, R. G.., Braun, B. G., & Shepp, E. (1988). Technique for planned abreactions with MPD patients. In B. G. Braun (Ed.), Dissociative disorders 1988: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multiple Personality /Dissociative States (p. 85). Chicago: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center.

Braun, B. (1989). Psychotherapy of the Survivor of Incest With a Dissociative Disorder.

Psychiatric Clinics of North America Volume 12, Issue 2, June 1989, Pages 307-324

Abstract: The treatment of the survivor of incest who suffers from a dissociative disorder is probably somewhat more difficult than that of other survivors of incest because for these others the material is more readily available. Also the patient with DD was probably more severely abused or the dissociative defense would not have been needed. This too makes therapy difficult, especially in that most necessary step: the development of trust and rapport. Despite these problems, there is a very good chance for a successful therapy that will bring the dissociated material back into the main stream of consciousness with a “here and now” appropriate perspective. This can be accomplished through proper diagnosis, good theoretics grounding, and therapy including psychotherapy with appropriate limit setting and the judicious use of medication. This article presents a summary of the BASK model of dissociation and two other models and gives ideas on how these models may be applied to the understanding of the etiology of dissociative disorders and their treatment. Case examples are used to illustrate successful treatment. Although treatment of incest survivors with dissociative disorders is difficult, success can be anticipated, and the rewards to the patient and the satisfaction for the therapist are great.

Schultz, R. G., Braun, B. G., & Kluft, R. P. (1989). Multiple personality disorder: Phenomenology of selected variables in comparison to major depression. Dissociation, 2, 45–51.

Abstract: Various findings from a retrospective survey of 355 multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients and 235 major depression patients, who served as a comparison group, are discussed. The survey was completed by 448 independent clinicians, 142 of whom contributed information on both an MPD and a major depression patient. The study confirms recent findings in the literature that MPD is not a rare disorder, its sufferers include a preponderance of females, and it is highly correlated with childhood trauma, especially sexual and physical abuse. In addition, the study indicates that clinicians who diagnose MPD perceive clinical phenomena in a manner similar to those clinicians who have not yet made this diagnosis.

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1413/Diss_2_1_7_OCR_rev.pdf?sequence=5

Braun, B. G. (1989). Dissociation as a sequela to incest. In R. P. Kluft (Ed.), Symposium on psychotherapy of the survivor of incest with a dissociative disorder}. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, 307–324.

Braun, B.. (1990). Multiple Personality Disorder: An Overview. The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association. 44. 971-6. 10.5014/ajot.44.11.971.

Abstract: Multiple personality disorder is understood today as chronic dissociative psychopathology that most often develops in response to severe abuse in childhood. The dissociative component is a manifestation of a defense mechanism out of control. The person with a biopsychological capacity to dissociate flees inward from overwhelming abuse or feared abuse. When continuing abuse perpetuates dissociations and they are chained by common affective themes, the foundations of multiple personality disorder are laid. Although the disorder has its roots in childhood, most patients are not diagnosed with this condition until 20 to 50 years of age. Many have received several prior, erroneous diagnoses of mental or physical disorders or both over a period of 7 or more years. Failure of diagnosis is an indication of the multiple factors that contribute to making this a covert disorder. Diagnosis and management begin at the same place: the establishment of trust and therapeutic alliance between patient and therapist.

Frischholz, E. J., Braun, B. G., Sachs, R. G., Hopkins, L., et al. (1990). The Dissociative Experiences Scale: Further replication and validation. Dissociation: Progress in the Dissociative Disorders, 3(3), 151–153.

Abstract: Administered the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) of E. M. Bernstein and F. W. Putnam (see record 1987-14407-001) to 259 college students, 33 patients with multiple personality disorder (MPD), and 29 patients with a dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS). The interrater reliability for the DES scoring procedure was excellent. The test–retest reliability of DES scores was also excellent, which suggests that DES total scores are temporally stable and similar in absolute value across testings. The internal consistency of DES scores was very high. Both MPD and DDNOS Ss earned significantly higher DES scores than did students. MPD Ss earned significantly higher DES scores than DDNOS Ss. A DES cut-off score of 45–55 will maximize the probability of correctly classifying normal Ss from dissociative disorder patients while minimizing the rates of false positive and false negative errors.

 https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1653/Diss_3_3_5_OCR_rev.pdf?sequence=4

Braun, B. G. (1990). Unusual medication regimens in the treatment of dissociative disorder patients: Part I. Noradrenergic agents. Dissociation, 3(3), 144–150.

Abstract: Describes the use of the noradrenergic agents propranolol and clonidine in an experimental setting to reduce switching and anxiety in dissociative disorder patients, making them better candidates for psychotherapy. The rationale for this use (unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration) of the drugs is based on 2 theories of emotion. It is hypothesized further that the mechanisms proposed by the 2 theories are reinforcing of one another via classical conditioning in the production and reinforcement of chronic, severe anxiety responses. The effect of propranolol and clonidine can complement the effect of benzodiazepines in patients with dissociative disorder. In the protocol described, propranolol or clonidine is sometimes used at ultrahigh doses.

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Leavitt, F., & Braun, B. (1991). Historical reliability: a key to differentiating populations among patients presenting signs of multiple personality disorder. Psychological reports, 69(2), 499–510. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1991.69.2.499

Abstract: The clinical value of inconsistencies in the historical data of patients presenting with signs of multiple personality disorder was assessed. Three major inconsistencies in historical data were identified in 23 patients who were admitted to a Dissociative Disorders Program with a diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder. This group showed psychological disturbance that was quite different from 23 patients with a similar discharge diagnosis but who did not exhibit inconsistencies in history. The former group reported less psychological disturbance and fewer dissociative experiences. Patients who are less credible by virtue of inconsistencies in their historical reports may belong to a different diagnostic group. The findings point to the need to chart history carefully in authenticating genuine cases.

Frischholz, E.J., Braun, B.G., Sachs, R.G., Schwartz, D.R., Lewis, J., Shaeffer, D., Westergaard, C. & Pasquotto, J. (1991). Construct validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES): I. The relation between the DES and other self-report measures of dissociation. Dissociation: Vol. 4 (4), p. 185-188

Abstract: The present study attempted to expand the construct validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) by comparing it to: (a) other self-report measures of dissociation (e.g., the Tellegen Absorption Scale [TAS] and the Perceptual Alteration Scale [PAS]); (b) the construct of “ambiguity intolerance” (assessed by the Yellen Ambiguity Intolerance Scale [YAIS]); and (c) the Jenkins Activity Schedule (JAS: which measures the degree of Type A behavior). Three hundred and eleven undergraduates participated in an experiment on “Hypnotizability and Personality, ” and filled out the DES TAS, PAS, YAIS, and JAS. The DES total score (and three DES factor scores) correlated with the TAS and PAS in the range of .24 – .52 (all correlations were significant at the .001 level, two-tailed). Furthermore, the DES total score (and the three DES factor scores) correlated significantly with the YAIS overall score (r’s ranged from .22 – .24, all p’s < .001), but did not correlate significantly with the JAS (r’s ranged from -.03 – .04, ns). The findings suggest that DES scores (i.e., total scores and each of the three DES factor scores) show good levels of convergent validity as they correlate significantly with other self-report measures of dissociation. However, the intercorrelations were not high enough to consider the different dissociation measures as interchangeable. Furthermore, subjects reporting high levels of dissociative experiences also reported higher levels of ambiguity intolerance. However, no significant association was observed between DES scores and the Type A behavior pattern.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36680041.pdf

Young, W.C., Sachs, R.G., Braun, B.G., & Watkins, R.T. (1991). Patients reporting ritual abuse in childhood: A clinical syndrome. Report of 37 cases. Child Abuse and Neglect, 15, 181-189.

Abstract: Thirty-seven adult dissociative disorder patients who reported ritual abuse in childhood by satanic cults are described. Patients came from a variety of separate clinical settings and geographical locations and reported a number of similar abuses. The most frequently reported types of ritual abuse are outlined, and a clinical syndrome is presented which includes dissociative states with satanic overtones, severe post-traumatic stress disorder, survivor guilt, bizarre self abuse, unusual fears, sexualization of sadistic impulses, indoctrinated beliefs, and substance abuse. Questions relating to issues of reliability, credibility and verfiability are addressed in depth, and the findings and implications are discussed.

Fichtner, C., & Braun, B. (1992). Bupropion-Associated Mania in a Patient with HIV Infection. Journal of clinical psychopharmacology. 12. 366-7. 10.1097/00004714-199210000-00017.

Frischholz, E.J., Lipman, L.S., Braun, B.G., & Sachs, R.G. (1992). Psychopathology, hypnotizability, and dissociation. American Journal of Psychiatry 149(11):1521-5

DOI:10.1176/ajp.149.11.1521

Abstract: The purpose of the study was to replicate and extend previous findings regarding the hypnotizability of different clinical groups. The authors compared the differential hypnotizability of four psychiatric groups–patients with dissociative disorders (N = 17), schizophrenia (N = 13), mood disorders (N = 13), and anxiety disorders (N = 14)–and one normal group of college students (N = 63). Hypnotizability was assessed by four different measures: the eye roll sign and the induction score of the Hypnotic Induction Profile, the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C, and two self-ratings of hypnotizability. As predicted, dissociative disorder patients had significantly higher hypnotizability scores on all measures than all other groups. Schizophrenic patients, on the other hand, had significantly lower scores than normal subjects on the eye roll sign and induction score but not on the other measures of hypnotizability. Some other unpredicted between-group differences were also found. Nevertheless, despite the between-group differences, the intercorrelations between the various hypnotizability measures within the normal group were very similar to those observed in the combined patient groups. The findings suggest that routine hypnotizability assessment may be useful in the differential diagnosis of patients with dissociative disorders.

Fichtner, C. G., & Braun, B. G. (1992). Bupropion-associated mania in a patient with HIV infection. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12(5), 366–367. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004714-199210000-00017

Abstract: Presents the case of a 50-yr-old man with HIV infection and a history of hospitalization for depression with suicidality, as well as mania in association with fluoxetine and bupropion treatment. The case shares several features of one previously reported by J. K. Zubieta and M. A. Demitrack (see record 1992-10254-001).

Labott, S. M., Leavitt, F., Braun, B. G., & Sachs, R. G. (1992). Rorschach indicators of multiple personality disorder. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75(1), 147-158.

The increase in reported cases of Multiple Personality Disorder underscores a great need to differentiate clearly this from other psychiatric disorders and from simulation of Multiple Personality Disorder. Two sets of Rorschach signs have been advanced as clinical markers by their developers, namely Barach and also Wagner, Allison, and Wagner.

Abstract: The increase in reported cases of Multiple Personality Disorder underscores a great need to differentiate clearly this from other psychiatric disorders and from simulation of Multiple Personality Disorder. Two sets of Rorschach signs have been advanced as clinical markers by their developers, namely, Barach and also Wagner, Allison, and Wagner. As the Wagner signs are prevalent in much of the research on Rorschach responses in Multiple Personality Disorder, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate these signs using Wagner’s administration and the resulting Rorschach protocols of 16 Multiple Personality Disorder patients and 16 psychiatric controls. Analysis indicated that this system was deficient in correctly classifying these 32 protocols. A new marker, the Splitting Response, emerged, however, which was more useful. This response, in combination with at least one Dissociative response, produced an accuracy rate of 94%. These new criteria may be useful aids in the detection of Multiple Personality Disorder from Rorschach protocols. Replication is urged.

Fichtner, C., Horevitz, R., & Braun, B. (1993). Fluoxetine in depersonalization disorder. The American journal of psychiatry. 149. 1750-1.

Abstract: Presents a case history of a 73-yr-old man with depersonalization disorder who responded favorably to treatment with fluoxetine, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor. S reported a history of panic attacks and feelings of unreality. Fluoxetine, 20 mg/day, was prescribed, and in 4 wks S reported improvement, which continued for 8 mo.

Carlson, E., Putnam, F.,Ross, C., Torem, M., Coons, P., Dill, D., Loewenstein, R. & Braun, B. (1993). Validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale in screening for Multiple Personality Disorder: A multicenter study. The American journal of psychiatry. 150. 1030-6. 10.1176/ajp.150.7.1030.

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The Dissociative Experiences Scale has proved a reliable and valid instrument to measure dissociation in many groups, but its capacity to distinguish patients with multiple personality disorder from patients with other psychiatric disorders has not yet been conclusively tested. METHOD: A discriminant analysis was performed to classify 1,051 subjects as having or not having multiple personality disorder. Another discriminant analysis was performed on a subgroup of 883 subjects more closely representing patients in a typical psychiatric facility in terms of base rates of dissociative disorders. A cutoff score of 30 was also used to classify subjects, and Bayes’s theorem, which allows for the calculation of the positive predictive value and the negative predictive value of a screening test, was applied. RESULTS: According to discriminant analysis of the total study group, the scale’s sensitivity was 76% and its specificity was also 76%; according to discriminant analysis of the more representative subgroup, the scale’s sensitivity was 76% and its specificity was 85%. Use of the cutoff score of 30 produced similar results. Results of the application of Bayes’s theorem showed that 17% of the subjects scoring 30 or higher would actually have multiple personality disorder and 99% of those scoring less than 30 would not have multiple personality disorder. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that the Dissociative Experiences Scale performs quite well as a screening instrument to identify subjects with multiple personality disorder. In addition, the consistency of responses to scale items across centers indicates that the symptoms reported by patients with multiple personality disorder are highly similar across diverse geographic centers. This consistency supports the reliability and validity of the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder across centers.

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Braun, B.G. (1993). Multiple Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Similarities and Differences In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds), International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. PP. 35-47. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_3

Abstract: Multiple personality disorder (MPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were formulated in medical consciousness at about the same time that modern psychiatry was being molded by its Age of Giants. During this period of 1880 to 1920, MPD was pulled from its millennia-old identification with demonology and possession into the rational spheres of psychology (Ellenberger, 1970). The “cowardice” of warriors who relived scenes of terror in sweating nightmares acquired a new etiology in the trenches of World War I, namely, “shell shock,” later to become the “combat fatigue” of World War II, and the PTSD of today. All too often throughout history the MPD and PTSD patient shared similar fates: isolation or death for the “possessed,” rejection or execution for the craven. Until recently, however, it was not realized that MPD and PTSD had two similarities in etiology and phemonenology: origin in exposure of the victim to shattering psychological trauma—in childhood in the instance of MPD, in later life in PTSD—and the subsequent need for the person to dissociate as a coping mechanism.

Fichtner, C., Jobe, T. & Braun, B. (1994). Possible therapeutic window for serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 55. 36-8.

Abstract: Comments on JW Cain’s (see record 1993-10662-001) and other investigators’ findings of a therapeutic window for some serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) reuptake inhibitors and expresses concern about the applicability of a therapeutic window for fluoxetine across larger numbers of patients. How the clinician decides whether to raise or lower fluoxetine is discussed.

Fichtner, C. & Braun, B. (1995). Hyperphagia and Weight Loss during Fluoxetine Treatment. The Annals of pharmacotherapy. 28. 1350-2. 10.1177/106002809402801205.

Abstract: To report the unusual coincidence of weight loss with increased appetite and food intake in a patient treated for depression on two separate occasions with fluoxetine. A 27-year-old woman experienced a modest weight loss during treatment for depression with fluoxetine. The weight loss was associated with a reported increase in daily caloric intake and consumption of a greater proportion of dietary fat than usual for the patient. The same patient was treated again with fluoxetine more than a year later and again experienced weight loss associated with an increase in appetite, caloric intake, and dietary fat consumption. Fluoxetine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor that often is associated with a modest weight loss when used for the treatment of depression, although it also has been reported to have the opposite effects of weight gain and hyperphagia in some patients. The effects on weight usually are assumed to be the result of primary effects on appetite, but the discrepancy between the appetite and weight changes in this case challenges the applicability of that assumption in all cases. The effects of fluoxetine on appetite and weight may be mediated by partially distinct mechanisms and might conceivably involve a direct metabolic effect in some patients.

Rossini, E. D., Schwartz, D. R., & Braun, B. G. (1996). Intellectual functioning of inpatients with dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 184(5), 289–294. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199605000-00004

Abstract: Examined the intellectual functioning of 50 inpatients with multiple personality disorder (MPD) and 55 inpatients with dissociative disorder (DSD) not otherwise specified using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised (WAIS–R) as part of a comprehensive research protocol. No significant intellectual differences were found between MPD and DSD Ss on any major IQ summary score or on any of the age-adjusted empirical factor scores. A significant subsample of MPD Ss manifested abnormal intertest scatter on the WAIS-R verbal subtests, and this variability was attributed to subtle neuropsychological deficits on the Memory/Distractibility factor. Results suggest that dissociative patients might need to be evaluated for attention deficit disorder in addition to the range of dissociative symptoms in a comprehensive evaluation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Putnam, F., Carlson, E., Ross, C., Anderson, G., Clark, P., Torem, M., Bowman, E., Coons, P, Chu, J, Dill, Diana, Loewenstein, R., & Braun, B. (1996). Patterns of Dissociation in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples. The Journal of nervous and mental disease. 184. 673-9. 10.1097/00005053-199611000-00004.

Abstract: Research has consistently found elevated mean dissociation scores in particular diagnostic groups. In this study, we explored whether mean dissociation scores for different diagnostic groups resulted from uniform distributions of scores within the group or were a function of the proportion of highly dissociative patients that the diagnostic group contained. A total of 1566 subjects who were psychiatric patients, neurological patients, normal adolescents, or normal adult subjects completed the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES). An analysis of the percentage of subjects with high DES scores in each diagnostic group indicated that the diagnostic group’s mean DES scores were a function of the proportion of subjects within the group who were high dissociators. The results contradict a continuum model of dissociation but are consistent with the existence of distinct dissociative types.

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Braun, B., Schwartz, D., Kravitz, H., & Waxman, J. (1997): Frequency of EEG abnormalities in a large dissociative population. Dissociation: Volume 10, No. 2, p. 120-124

Abstract: A retrospective chart review was conducted to determine the frequency of EEG abnormalities, particularly those suggesting temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), among adult patients with dissociative disorders. EEGs from 160 inpatients with dissociative disorders who were treated at either of two sites specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders were reviewed. EEGs were categorized as normal, possible drug effect, or abnormal. Overall, 7.5 % of patients had EEGs that were interpreted as abnormal but only two (1.25 %) of the entire sample had findings that suggested TLE. The two sites differed significantly in the percentage read as abnormal. According to these results, a small minority of patients with dissociative disorders have non-specific EEG abnormalities as well as more specific temporal lobe dysrhythmias. However, the population and context in which the dissociation–epilepsy association is explored will influence the outcome of any attempt to resolve the question regarding the relationship.

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1827/Diss_10_2_7_OCR_rev.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Schwartz, D.R. & Rossini, E.D. & Braun, B.G. & Stein, G.M.. (1997). Factor analytic investigation of the WAIS-R among patients with dissociative psychopathology. Dissociation. 10. 54-57.

Abstract: The factor structure of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) was examined among 133 participants diagnosed with a dissociative disorder. The results of two and three factor orthogonal solutions with varimax rotation were obtained. The two and three factor solutions were consistent with traditionalfactor analytic studies with Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Organization in the two factor solution, and Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, and Freedom from Distractibility in the three-factor solution. This is the only factor analytic investigation using the WAIS-R to study a dissociative population.

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Frischholz, E.J., Braun, B.G., Sachs, R.G., Schwartz, D.R., Lewis, J., Shaeffer, D. Westergaard, C., & Pasquotto, J. (2014). Construct Validity of the Dissociative Experiences Scale: II. Its Relationship to Hypnotizability. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 57:2, 102-109, DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2015.967056

Abstract: Undergraduates (n = 311) who volunteered to participate in an experiment on “Hypnotizability and Personality” filled out several personality questionnaires (including the Dissociative Experiences Scale; DES), were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS), and completed a self-rating of hypnotizability. The DES overall score correlated significantly with the HGSHS summary score (r(309) = .12, p < .05, two-tailed) and with subject’s self-rating of hypnotizability (r(309) = .13, p < .05, two-tailed). The magnitude of these correlations was similar to that observed in a previous study (.14 & .18) and is also similar in magnitude to the correlations typically observed between the HGSHS and the Tellegen Absorption Scale. The potential clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

Frischholz, E. J., Lipman, L. S., Braun, B. G., & Sachs, R. (2015). Suggested posthypnotic amnesia in psychiatric patients and normals. The American journal of clinical hypnosis, 57(2), 110–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2015.967059

Abstract: The present study examined both quantitative and qualitative hypnotizability differences among four psychiatric patient groups (dissociative disorder (n = 17), schizophrenic (n = 13), mood disorder (n = 14), and anxiety disorder (n = 14) patients), and normals (college students (n = 63)). Dissociative disorder patients earned significantly higher corrected total scores on the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (mean = 7.94), than all other groups. Likewise, dissociative disorder patients initially recalled significantly fewer items when the posthypnotic amnesia suggestion was in effect (mean = .41) and reversed significantly more items when the suggestion was canceled (mean = 3.82) than all other groups. In contrast, schizophrenic patients recalled significantly fewer items when the amnesia suggestion was in effect (mean = 1.85) and reversed significantly fewer items when it was canceled (mean = .77) than the remaining groups. This qualitative difference between schizophrenic patients and the other groups on the suggested posthypnotic amnesia item was observed even though there were no significant quantitative differences between groups in overall hypnotic responsivity.