Dunno why CommunityCare missed this one, as it is 'big news' having attracted a Private Eye full-page article in later November and now a 6-page spread in Sundays The Observer magazine.
The mystery of Carole Myers
The scandal is likely to run-and-run until some satisfacotry explanation is provided to the families questions. In the meantime, how many other vulnerable women are lanquishing in the psychotherapy hell?
I particularly liked the ramblings to The Observer investigative journalist from Valerie Sinason (who has wirtten for Community Care);
In the medical records, Sinason noted that Carole was her first chronic sadistic-abuse patient. Today, when I ask about her first patient, Sinason describes the arrival of two medical professionals – a nurse and a psychologist – one of whom was limping.
"I just had that nasty feeling," she says. "It's her, and she's been hurt by them."
"You could tell that from the limp?" I ask.
"Yep."
Soon, we get to the actual satanism. Sinason talks of a popular ritual in which a child is stitched inside the belly of a dying animal before being 'reborn to satan'. During other celebrations, "people eat faeces, menstrual blood, semen, urine. There's cannibalism." Some groups have doctors performing abortions. "They give the foetus to the mother and she's made to kill the baby."
"And the cannibalism – that's foetuses?" I clarify.
"Foetuses and bits of bodies."
"Raw or cooked?"
"The foetuses are raw."
"Not even a bit of salt and pepper?" I ask.
"Raw. And handed round like communion. On one major festival, the babies are barbecued. I can still remember one survivor saying how easy it is to pull apart the ribs on a baby. But adults are tougher to eat."
She describes large gatherings in woodlands and castles, with huge cloths being laid out. "That's normally when there's a sacrifice," she notes, "and because the rapes are happening all over the place. There's a small amount of cannon fodder in terms of runaways, drug addicts, prostitutes and tramps that are used. There's sex with animals. Horses, dogs, goats. Being hanged upside down. In the woods, on a tree."
"How do they get an animal to have sex with a human?" I wonder.
Sinason's husband thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "plenty of dogs have a go at people's legs." "True," says Sinason, adding poignantly: "However horrible it sounds, the dog, at least, is friendly afterwards."
"Because at least the dog's had a good time," I say.
"And the child loves the pet," Sinason nods. "The pet is made to have sex with the child – but the pet, at least, is still their friend."
You couldn't make it up.
This is the better link:
www.justiceforcarol.com
Very interesting. My mother has schizophrenia and so often people do not challenge what she says. I frequently respond to her with an air on whatever mum, knowing it is totally rubbish. Sometimes I challenge her, which makes her very very cross. I really wish that I had proper in-depth guidance on how to handle her fantasies of being a member of the royal family.I question if she was abused as a child, she has a sister who has the same condition but I will never know. It is so very sad as she is totally unable to hold a rational conversation which does not revolve around herself.
I have worked in a therapeutic community and I know how easy it is to brain wash people ( I did not, nor anybody that I am aware of) into a certain way of thinking, playing with the mind is a cruel game and one which could go on a heck of a lot more that is recognised. But the mind is also very very clever and can adapt.Perhaps Caroles mind was embracing the idea of abuse to protect her and her mind from something else. For example often people who have suffered trauma cant remember the trauma, who is to say the mind in Carols case instead of not remembering something painful, substituted it with a false painful memory, to protect her from the reality? Hey what do I know? What do any of us know? Theories are great but we have to be careful not to let one theory or mindset dominate and cloud rational judgement.