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[This excerpt is from Survivor
Psychology: The Dark Side of a Mental Health Mission by Susan Smith,
pp. 211-214. Upton Books and SIRS Mandarin, Boca Raton, FL. Copyright (c)
1995. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Read
our review or order
it from Amazon.com.]
Partial Results from the survey of 38 therapists from the Phoenix area:
| Can you identify a client with repressed
sexual abuse issues before the client identifies the problem? |
| Sometimes |
29% |
| Yes |
71% |
| Do you suggest the possibility of repressed
sexual abuse issues in a client? |
| Sometimes |
66% |
| Yes |
17% |
| No |
17% |
| Do you affirm the client's tentative impressions,
dreams or feelings that may indicate sexual abuse? |
| Sometimes |
28% |
| Yes |
66% |
| No |
6% |
| Do you validate the possibility that sexual
abuse occurred and that traumatic memories are often repressed? |
| Sometimes |
17% |
| Yes |
83% |
| Do you use a sexual abuse and incest survivor
checklist to diagnose repressed abuse? |
| Sometimes |
17% |
| Yes |
32% |
| No |
51% |
| Is it of any importance to the therapeutic
process whether recovered memories are true or false? |
| Yes |
34% |
| No |
76% |
| Have you encountered clients with sexual
abuse issues who have Post Traumatic Stress Disorders? |
| Yes |
69% |
| No |
31% |
| Have you encountered clients with sexual
abuse issues who have Multiple Personality Disorder? |
| Yes |
89% |
| No |
11% |
| Have you encountered clients reporting
satanic abuse? |
| Yes |
92% |
| No |
8% |
| Have you attended seminars or training
sessions on satanic abuse? |
| Yes |
70% |
| No |
30% |
| Do you consider ritual and satanic abuse
to be serious problems in the sexual abuse field? |
| Yes |
97% |
| Do you use any of the following techniques
to uncover or clarify memories? |
| Hypnosis |
Yes--63% |
| Trance work |
Yes--71% |
| Age regression |
Yes--79% |
| Non-dominant handwriting |
Yes--76% |
| Dream interpretation |
Yes--89% |
| Psychodrama |
Yes--63% |
| Art therapy |
Yes--71% |
| Assign or make available survivor books such as The Courage to Heal
and Secret Survivors |
Yes--100% |
| Which of the syndromes and disorders are
commonly symptoms of sexual abuse, incest and repressed abuse issues? |
| Alcoholism |
Yes--97% |
| Drug addiction |
Yes--95% |
| Eating disorders |
Yes--97% |
| Depression |
Yes--97% |
| Sexual dysfunction |
Yes--97% |
| Sexual addiction |
Yes--97% |
| Relationship addiction |
Yes--95% |
| Health problems |
Yes--95% |
| Cancer |
Yes--71% |
| MPD |
Yes--95% |
| PTSD |
Yes--92% |
| Dissociative disorders |
Yes--92% |
| Childhood amnesia |
Yes--71% |
| Gynecological problems |
Yes--97% |
| Is it common for memories to surface in
the following ways? |
| Dreams |
Yes--95% |
| Flashbacks |
Yes--95% |
| Body memories |
Yes--95% |
| Hypnosis or trance work |
Yes--95% |
| During survivor groups |
Yes--95% |
| Anniversaries of abuse |
Yes--95% |
| Sensory memory triggers |
Yes--87% |
| TV programs with sexual abuse themes |
Yes--68% |
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