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A group of families and professionals affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore created the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in 1992 because they saw a need for an organization that could document and study the problem of families that were being shattered when adult children suddenly claimed to have recovered repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The mandate of the FMSF has always been to discredit the recovered memories of people who report having been traumatically abused as children – usually by claiming that the child’s therapist has implanted false memories – and to develop legal defenses for protecting pedophiles in court. They have resorted to lies, intimidation, character assassination, legal tactics, The FMSF has routinely argued in court cases that satanic ritual abuse (SRA) and multiple personality disorder (MPD) don’t exist, and the organization and its members have specifically targeted any therapists who claim that they do. Sybil, a 1976 film based on a true story, is a powerful portrayal of a woman struggling with multiple personality disorder. The movie stars Sally Field as Sybil Dorsett, a woman who experiences severe and traumatic events in her childhood that cause her to dissociate into different personalities. The Three Faces of Eve (1957), a film starring Georgia native Joanne Woodward, is an adaptation of a book by the same name, written by doctors Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley. The narrative chronicles the experiences of a young housewife with multiple personalities, who was initially diagnosed and treated at the Medical College of Georgia (later Georgia Health Sciences University) in Augusta. Dissociative Identity Disorder, MPD/DID, Sybil: The Making of a Disease? Dr. Herbert Spiegel's View (astraeasweb.net) THE CIA & THE FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION (FMSF) – The Constantine Report CIA and the False Memory Syndrome Foundation | Conspiracy Theories | Before It's News (beforeitsnews.com) Satanic Ritual Child Sex Abuse: The McMartin Case Revisited | The Kassandra Project: freedom against disinformation (wordpress.com) McMartin Preschool Case – What Really Happened and the Coverup : S.M.A.R.T.'s Ritual Abuse Pages The FBI Declassifies Files on The Finders and McMartin Pre-school Child Trafficking Cases | Winter Watch Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion – Wikipedia Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve (Fox, 1957) 720p – YouTube Sybil (1976) full movie (youtube.com) Top 10 Dissociative Identity Disorder Movies and TV shows (Multiple Personality) (traumadissociation.com) A history lesson for Americans. You’re still British. – Patriots for Truth (patriots4truth.org) Psychopath In Your Life – Dianne Emerson – YouTube Tune in: Podcast Links – Psychopath In Your Life BOOK *FREE* Download – Psychopath In Your Life TOP PODS – Psychopath In Your Life Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder, is one of multiple dissociative disorders in the DSM-5, DSM-5-TR, ICD-10, ICD-11, and Merck Manual. It has a history of extreme controversy. Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. The disorder is accompanied by memory gaps more severe than could be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. The personality states alternately show in a person's behavior; however, presentations of the disorder vary. According to the DSM-5-TR, early childhood trauma, typically starting by 5-6 years of age, can place someone at risk of developing dissociative identity disorder. Across diverse geographic regions, 90% of individuals diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder report experiencing multiple forms of childhood abuse, such as rape, violence, neglect, or severe bullying. Other traumatic childhood experiences that have been reported include painful medical or surgical procedures, war, terrorism, attachment disturbance, natural disaster, cult, and occult abuse, loss of a loved one or loved ones,human trafficking, and dysfunctional family dynamics. There is no medication to treat DID directly. However, medications can be used for comorbid disorders or targeted symptom relief, for example antidepressants or treatments to improve sleep. Treatment generally involves supportive care and psychotherapy. There are no medications used specifically to treat dissociative identity disorder, but a variety of drugs can be used to relieve some of the symptoms along with therapy. These include neuroleptics such as aripiprazole, ziprasidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine, anticonvulsants, which act as mood stabilizers, and antidepressants to reduce anxiety and apprehension. The condition is believed to affect 1.1–1.5% of the general population (based on multiple epidemiological studies) and 3% of those admitted to hospitals with mental health issues in Europe and North America. DID is diagnosed about six times more often in women than in men. The number of recorded cases increased significantly in the latter half of the 20th century, along with the number of identities reported by those affected. However, it is unclear whether increased rates of diagnosis are due to better recognition or sociocultural factors such as mass media portrayals. The typical presenting symptoms in different regions of the world may also vary depending on culture, such as alter identities taking the form of possessing spirits, deities, ghosts, or mythical creatures and figures in cultures where normative possession states are common. The 20th Century History of Dissociative Identity Disorder In the 1970s, the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder rose dramatically after the publication of the extremely popular book, Sybil, in 1973. In the 1970s alone, it is thought that more cases of DID were reported than in all of history since 1816 and the famous case of Mary Reynolds. Between 1991 and 1997, over 500 cases of DID were admitted to a single dissociative disorders treatment center in Dallas, Texas. Additionally, as more and more cases of DID were reported, more and more alternate personalities (alters) were reported in each case. The majority of cases noted by 1944 manifested with only two personalities, while there was an average of 15.7 alters noted in cases reported in 1997. In current day, controversy still rages around DID, its diagnosis and whether the disorder even exists. The full presentation of dissociative identity disorder can onset at any age,[24] although symptoms typically begin at ages 5–10.[37] According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), symptoms of DID include “the presence of two or more distinct personality states”. In the DSM-II, in 1968, dissociative identity disorder was called hysterical neurosis, dissociative type and was defined as an alteration to consciousness and identity. 1967 – Michael Aquino began a two-year tour of duty in Vietnam, taking part in the infamous Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program was an assassination/torture/terror operation that was initiated by the CIA, with the aim of ‘neutralizing’ the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. In 1980, the DSM-III was published and the term “dissociative” was first introduced as a class of disorders. In the DSM-IIIs text revision (DSM-III-R), an essential feature of dissociative disorders was “a disturbance in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness . . .” This rather liberal diagnosis may be partially responsible for the vast uptick in diagnoses of the new diagnosis of “multiple personality disorder.” The DSM-IV, in 1994, addressed this somewhat as it included the specific criterion of amnesia to the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder, now renamed to dissociative identity disorder. The psychiatric hospital in Colonial Williamsburg was known as the “Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds” and, just as stated on Pottermore, was the first building in the U.S. dedicated to helping the mentally ill. Governor Francis Fauquier founded the institution in 1773 in hopes of curing “persons who are so unhappy as to be deprived of their reason.” Railroad history in the United States is nearly as old as the country itself, dating back to the mid-1820s. As we know, this great nation would not have grown and prospered as it did without the railroads, which brought together the young country and allowed for unprecedented prosperity. The Great Famine was caused by a failure of the potato crop, which many people relied on for most of their nutrition. A disease called late blight destroyed the leaves and edible roots of the potato plants in successive years from 1845 to 1849. Dynamite was invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in 1866 and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder The world’s first public electricity supply was provided in late 1881, when the streets of the Surrey town of Godalming in the UK were lit with electric light. What country first used electricity? These were invented by Joseph Swan in 1878 in Britain and by Thomas Edison in 1879 in the US. World War I started on June 28, 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz of Austria. His murder started a war in the whole of Europe that ended on 11 November 1918. This four-year war was fought between the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) and the Allied powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Canada, Japan, and the United States). The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 at the Palace of Versailles in Paris at the end of World War I, codified peace terms between Germany and the victorious Allies. The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting the war and imposed harsh penalties on the Germans, including loss of territory, massive reparations payments and demilitarization. The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy. It is associated with the Institute for Social Research founded at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1923. Formed during the Weimar Republic during the European interwar period, the first generation of the Frankfurt School was composed of intellectuals, academics, and political dissidents dissatisfied with the contemporary socio-economic systems of the 1930s; namely, capitalism, fascism, and communism. In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide. The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, is a significant milestone in economic history. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. In English, the republic was usually simply called “Germany”, with “Weimar Republic” (a term introduced by Adolf Hitler in 1929) not commonly used until the 1930 The electric cattle prod is said to have been invented by Texas cattle baron Robert J. Kleberg, Jr.of the King Ranch around 1930, although versions were sold as early as 1917 From 1936 until 1972, nearly 60,000 people were lobotomized. Most lobotomies were performed without the patient’s or their legal caretaker’s consent. Vitamins Virgil P. Sydenstricker was a professor of medicine and an internationally recognised specialist in hematology and nutrition. Articles published with Cleckley were among the first to describe an atypical form of pellagra (now known as “niacin deficiency”) which was then endemic in southern states. In 1939 and 1941 they published on the use of nicotinic acid (niacin or vitamin B3) as a treatment for abnormal mental states and psychiatric disorders. The studies have been erroneously used to justify the use of megavitamin therapy in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Cleckley practiced the controversial “coma therapy“, where psychiatric patients would be repeatedly put into comas over several weeks through overdoses of insulin, metrazol or other drugs. In the wake of sometimes fatal complications, Cleckley published in 1939 and 1941 advising on theoretical grounds the prophylactic administration of various vitamins, salts and hormones. Hervey Milton Cleckley, M.D. (1903 –1984) was an American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy. His book, The Mask of Sanity, originally published in 1941 WW2 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945 Operation Paperclip ran from 1945 to 1959, bringing over 1,600 scientists, engineers and technicians from Germany to the United States. It was lauded as a great success, even though many of the men involved had highly questionable pasts. Formed in 1947, the Tavistock Institute is an independent not-for-profit organization which seeks to combine research in the social sciences with professional practice. In 1951, he also co-published case study research suggesting the use of electronarcosis for various conditions, a form of deep sleep therapy initiated by passing electric current through the brain, without causing seizures as in electroconvulsive therapy which he also used. Stunning with electricity is known as electronarcosis, and killing with electricity is known as electrocution. In 1952 Cleckley, along with Walter Bromberg a senior psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, published an article on the insanity defense. They suggested changing the wording of it to: “In your opinion, was the defendant suffering from disease of the mind and if so, was it sufficient to render him unaccountable under the law for the crime charged?” The concept of ‘accountability’ was intended as an alternative to a narrow definition of ‘responsibility’ under the M’Naghten rules which requires an absence of moral knowledge of right and wrong, in effect only covering psychosis (delusions, hallucinations). They argued that mental illness can involve any part of the mind and that the insanity test should focus on the extent to which the accused’s mind overall, due to some inner pathology ‘whether obvious or masked’, was unable to operate in accord with the law. However, 10 years later, a chapter by Cleckley on “Psychiatry: Science, Art, and Scientism” cautioned others against a common exaggeration of the abilities of psychiatry to diagnose or treat, including in regard to criminal responsibility. In that regard Cleckley expressed his agreement with a critique by Hakeem, yet Hakeem had quoted Cleckley’s claims about psychopathy as an example of psychiatrists exaggerating how clear their diagnostic terms are to each other. Thigpen and Cleckley (1954) A Case of Multiple Personality Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a dissociative disorder in which two or more distinct personalities coexist within one and the same individual. It is a neurotic disorder. It is not a form of schizophrenia – type of psychotic disorder where contact with reality and insight are impaired. Other symptoms are hallucinations and delusions. In 1956, Cleckley co-authored a book The Three Faces of Eve with Corbett H. Thigpen, his partner in private practice and colleague at the department of psychiatry in Georgia University. It was based on their patient Chris Costner Sizemore who Thigpen especially had treated over several years. They published a research article on the case in 1954, documenting the sessions and how they came to view it as a case of ‘multiple personality’, referencing Morton Prince‘s earlier controversial case study of Christine Beauchamp (pseudonym). They also discussed what is meant by ‘personality’ and identity, noting how it can change even in everyday senses (becoming ‘a new person’ or ‘not himself’ etc.). Such a diagnosis had fallen into relative disuse in psychiatry but Thigpen and Cleckley felt they had identified a rare case, though others have questioned the use of hypnosis and suggestion in creating some if not all of the chara…
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