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SUBJECT: ABDUCTEES ? OR SEX ABUSE ? FILE: UFO3355
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THE 65 FACES OF DONNA
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Notes: Multiple Personality Disorder is said to have 300,000 victims
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in America. Often linked with memories of sexual abuse, the epidemic is
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dividing medical opinion. At 19, Donna Smith was diagnosed with MPD,
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after being passed from therapist to therapist. But the question now
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being asked is whether therapy is a cause of the problem.
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from THE INDEPENDENT - London, 10/24/93
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[ . . . ]
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In recent years, however, MPD has developed two variants in
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which the claims of childhood abuse are highly controversial. The
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first exploded into prominence in the early 1980s after the
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publication of the book Michelle Remembers, by a woman named
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Michelle Smith, and her psychiatrist (now her husband), Lawrence
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Pazder. Michelle Smith claimed that she had recovered memories of
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ritual abuse performed on her during satanic cult gatherings.
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Survivors of satanic ritual abuse, or SRA, typically report that
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they have been subjected to sexual assaults while drugged, their
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babies later being harvested for black magic sacrifices. Scars are
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often displayed as evidence for their ritual abuse. Many
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self-described SRA survivors are diagnosed as suffering from MPD.
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Another MPD variant, which had lingered somewhat obscurely in
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UFO lore since the mid-1960s, became epidemic in the late 1980s
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after the publication of Whitley Strieber's Communion, a
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first-person account of apparent abduction by extra-terrestrials.
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"Abductees" typically report being taken from their beds at night
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into waiting spaceships, where they are drugged, placed on
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examination tables, and forced to endure sexual and gynaecological
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indignities. Female abductees, who significantly outnumber males,
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often report that they have conceived hybrid human-alien babies
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only to have them "harvested" by the aliens. Abductees often
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display scars and bruises as evidence of their spaceship medical
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examinations. Some of the symptoms of the abductees, including
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lengthy periods of amnesia and other mysterious ailments, are
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strikingly similar to those of MPD patients.
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As incest, satanic ritual abuse and UFO abduction claims have
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poured in over the past decade, they have divided mental health
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professionals into three main camps: those who believe virtually
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all such claims; those who believe that the more bizarre claims are
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"screen memories" of more prosaic abuse; and those who believe that
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even the prosaic claims are deliberately or unconsciously concocted
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fantasies, perhaps encouraged by media coverage of the subject and
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by credulous, crusading therapists. Most mental health
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professionals in the US probably fit somewhere between the first
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two categories: although most seem to dismiss UFO abduction claims,
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most seem to accept at least some satanic ritual abuse claims.
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Richard Loewenstein notes that among his MPD patients, the
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proportion reporting SRA is "between half and three-quarters".
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Dissociative disorder specialists currently estimate that about
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300,000 Americans have MPD.
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Paul McHugh, holder of the psychiatry chair at the Johns Hopkins
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University medical school in Baltimore, is one of the best-known
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proponents of the sceptical view of MPD. The disorder, argues
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McHugh, "is an idea that the patient has about himself, about the
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world, and it is displayed to others for the purpose of drawing
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attention to the patient - and sometimes to distract attention from
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the patient's real problems". As for the trauma claims produced by
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MPD patients, McHugh says: "Really, the question comes down to
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this: a patient who says there was a period of time in which she
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had no memory of being abused, now has a memory that she was
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abused; she's gone from a `no' to a `yes'. And that could logically
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be occurring in two ways: one, that she really did forget being
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abused and now remembers it; or two, that she wasn't abused and has
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been induced to {have} a false memory."
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