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Diagnostic Confusion and Delays That Endanger Children
Published in Michael R. Bütz, Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond DSM-5: Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses, 2020
I have introduced this term to refer to a disturbance in which children are obsessed with deprecation and criticism of a parent—denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated. The notion that such children are merely ‘brainwashed’ is narrow. The term brainwashing implies that one parent is systematically and consciously programming the child to denigrate the other parent. The concept of the parental alienation syndrome includes the brainwashing component but is much more inclusive. It includes not only conscious but subconscious and unconscious factors within the parent that contribute to the child’s alienation. Furthermore (and this is extremely important), it includes factors that arise within the child—independent of the parental contributions—that contribute to the development of the syndrome.
Treatment Motivation Characteristics of Offenders Who Abuse Substances
Published in Barbara Sims, Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients, 2012
Finally, the most serious challenge to the practice of coerced treatment is the clearly stated codes of ethics of virtually all of the psychology, counseling, and social work professional organizations. The foundation of ethical practice is freedom of choice and informed consent. Coerced psychological intervention in an individual’s life suggests the practice of brainwashing because it consists of pressure to change thoughts, values, or attitudes under the threat of serious legal consequences. In addition to ethical considerations about how coerced counseling affects the offender, a perhaps greater concern is how it affects the counselor who is practicing a profession in an arena where there are serious theoretical, empirical, and ethical threats to professionalism (Shearer, 2000).
An addiction to seeking fortune-telling services: a case report
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2020
In this case report development of the addictive behavior has much in common with the process of becoming a cult member. It is a fact that not all people exposed to cultic processes within a cultic structure will become members of a cult. For a broad range of reasons, a significant number of potential recruits will never join or will join for a relatively brief amount of time and then leave.25 Psychologist Michael Langone modified Farber, Harlow and West’s26 description of the “DDD (Debility, Dependency, Dread) Syndrome” in brainwashing. According to Langone, the cultic relationship involves deception on the part of the cult hierarchy and the induction of dependency and dread in members.27 The FBI’s report on “Project Megiddo” quoted Singer and Lalich: a cultic relationship refers to “one in which a person intentionally induces others to become totally or nearly totally dependent on him or her for almost all major life decisions, and inculcates in these followers a belief that he or she has some special talent, gift, or knowledge”.28
Punishing Intentions and Neurointerventions
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2018
We harm a person’s interest in mental integrity when we intentionally create or alter one of his desires through means other than engaging with that person’s autonomous thought (Birks and Douglas 2017, 424–5). Some interferences with mental states do not harm a person’s interest in mental integrity—for example, providing a person with arguments, or presenting evidence with the intention of altering a person’s desire directly engages with the person’s autonomous thought—whereas other interventions, such as hypnotism and brainwashing, create or alter desires by bypassing them.8 We think that similarly, neurointerventions plausibly alter an offender’s desire in a way that bypasses his autonomous thought. When we administer testosterone-lowering drugs to a sexual offender, for instance, in at least some cases, we do not engage with the offender’s autonomous thought, and his sexual desires are altered in a way that bypass his autonomous thought.9
Catching a Wave: The Hypnosis-Sensitive Transference-Based Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2018
The realization that there had been much more to this story than Steven had known in the self-states that generally functioned in his daily life proved both stunning and devastating. While Steven had developed some intellectualized and distanced ideas about his experiencing brainwashing and submission as a boy, now he was able to experience the feelings and affects, and truly own these experiences. He could finally own them because he felt the disowned emotions in the men’s room when he had encountered me there, but still had remained unable to identify them and connect them with life experiences it was until they emerged within our therapeutic encounters. All Steven knew was that he was surprised, terrified, and then outraged. These experiences and insights enabled him to better understand both what he feared as well as what he also felt compelled to seek out in the dissociated transference elements.