Routledge Inside Views from the Dissociated Worlds of Extreme Violence: Human Beings as Merchandise

Product Description This book is primarily for psychotherapists, but is also for professionals such as lawyers, judges, doctors, and the clergy, and for victims. Different perspectives describe worlds of sadistic violence, revealing how human beings are deliberately and persistently broken. It explores how victims are used and abused in the context of pornography, prostitution, and snuff videos; how they are deprived of their rights through mind control: degraded to nothing more than objects, abused at the push of a button according to the desires of the tormentors. Claims by the "false memory" movement aid the tormentors, and this is reflected in the language these groups use. With an explanation of the diverse structures of dissociation, ranging from dissociation as the reaction of an organism, through conditioning, all the way to programming, the author develops a structural model for treating victims of extreme violence and mind control. Review 'Child abuse by organized perpetrator groups has been ignored for much too long in the literature both on child abuse and on dissociation. Gaby Breitenbach's groundbreaking work in this area deserves to be available to English-speaking therapists, as it sheds light on this hidden world and its effects in structuring the complex personality systems of survivors.'--Alison Miller 'Gaby Breitenbach explains that we have a duty to provide adequate treatment to those human beings who have borne witness to this dark world. Are we courageous enough in our hearts and in our minds to listen to them and to grant our patients their right to be heard, as she describes so aptly?'--Ellert Nijenhuis About the Author Gaby Breitenbach