Valerie Sinason
Valerie Sinason | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Poet, writer, psychotherapist |
Known for | Treatment of the developmentally disabled; advocacy for the existence of satanic ritual abuse |
Valerie Sinason is a British poet, writer, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist who is known for promoting the idea that people with a
Psychoanalysis and the developmentally disabled
Since 1979, Sinason has claimed that severely
Satanic ritual abuse
In 1994, Sinason edited a collection of essays entitled Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse that claimed
However, others disagree (Herman 1993)[10] stating it is unlikely that reputable therapists would plant unexpected criminal accounts in the clients’ minds or that they would even be able to, either by suggestive techniques (McFarlane & Lockerbie, 1994)[11] or leading questions (Sakheim & Devine, 1992).[12] Attachment theory shows that it is normal to automatically defend those one is close to from attack, and in this case the attack is dangerous stories of parental Satanic Ritual Abuse, incest or paedophilia (Bloom, 1994).[13] They would therefore be most likely to be rejected. To see how easy it would be to plant such ideas in clients’ minds, the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale was administered to Satanic Ritual Abuse survivors. The results showed they were low in suggestibility (Leavitt, 1997)[14] so unlikely to succumb to suggestive techniques. Common sense also dictated that the idea of thousands of registered therapists, mental health professionals and law enforcement personnel throughout the US, England, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand all at the same time implanting similarly untrue accounts of SRA in their clients, with matching codes, torture and results, stretches the bounds of credibility (Barstow, 1993).[15]
Bibliography
- Sinason, Valerie (2011). Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-49179-2.
- Sinason, V (2010). Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability (2nd ed.). Free Association Books. ISBN 978-1-85343-202-6.
- Memory in dispute, 2018.
- The truth about trauma and dissociation: everything you didn't want to know and were afraid to ask, Confer books, 2020.
- Mental handicap and the human condition: an analytic approach to intellectual disability, Free association books, 2010.
- Mental handicap and the human condition: new approach by the Tavistock, Free association books, 1992.
- Understanding your handicapped child, firefly books, 1997.
- Night shift: New poems by Valerie Sinason, 1995.
References
- ISBN 978-1-85343-202-6.
- ISBN 1-85575-964-0.
- ISBN 0-415-10543-9.
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- Ben-Yehuda N, Goode E (1994). Moral panics: the social construction of deviance. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 57–65. ISBN 0-631-18905-X.
- Jenkins, P (1998). Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. pp. 207–231. ISBN 0-300-10963-6.
- Victor JS (1993). Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. ISBN 0-8126-9192-X.
- ISBN 0-7864-1830-3.
- Ben-Yehuda N, Goode E (1994). Moral panics: the social construction of deviance. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 57–65.
- ISBN 0-11-321797-8.
- ^ Thompson, D (22 March 2002). "The people who believe that Satanists might eat your baby". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Brindle, David (10 February 2000). "Satanic abuse row erupts". The Guardian.
- ^ "Portman and tavistock clinic pilot study on alleged organsied ritual abuse - a Freedom of Information request to Department for Education". WhatDoTheyKnow. 13 February 2017.
- ^ a b Laurance, J (1 March 2001). "I was wrong about cannibalism". The Independent. via HighBeam Research. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
- ^ Herman, J. L. (26 May 1993). "Adult memories of childhood trauma: current controversies". Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco, CA.
- ^ McFarlane, R. B.; Lockerbie, G (1994). "Difficulties in treating ritually abused children". Journal of Psychohistory. 21 (4): 429–434.
- ISBN 9780669269628.
- ^ Bloom, S. L. (1994). "Hearing the survivor's voice: Sundering the wall of denial". Psychohistory. 21 (4): 461–477.
- PMID 9134257.
- ^ Barstow, D. (1993). "A critical examination of the false memory syndrome". Family Violence & Sexual Assault Bulletin (9): 21–22.
External links
- Article discussing Sinason's involvement with a satanic ritual abuse patient