• Breathing Exercise
• Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Comments on Szasz' Myth of Mental Illness
• Definition: Child Sexual Abuse
• Definition: Emotional Abuse
• Definition: Physical Abuse
• Definition: Professional Abuse
• Definition: Sexual Assault
• Definition: Spiritual Abuse
• Definition: Spousal Abuse
• Dissociation
• Finding Support
• Finding a Therapist
• Freud's "Etiology of Hysteria" and Present Research on Child Sexual Abuse
• Incest and Adult Sexual Functioning
• Incest: Family Profiles and Profiles and Psychological Implications
• Leaving Jehovah's Witnesses - Personal Experience
• Memory
• Mind Control Techniques and Jehovah's Witnesses
• Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD): Multiple Selves and Structural Interactionism
• Needs Assessment for Adult Survivors of Incest (Montreal, Canada)
• Physical Child Abuse: Self Perceptions -- Research
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Criteria
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Symptoms
• Psychic Out-of-Body Experiences and Traumatic Out-of-Body Experiences in Childhood: Similarities and Differences
• Relationships
• Relaxation Exercise
• Self-Reflection
• Social Death: The Practice of  Disfellowshipping Among Jehovah's Witnesses
• Suggested Book List
• The Issue of Consent
  
• Til Death Do Us Part
  
• Traumatic Child Sexual Abuse, Psychological  Death and the Reduction in the Belief in the Power of God
• Traumatic Memory
  
• Virginia Woolf: Incest and its Effects on her Life

Diagnostic Criteria:

A.  "The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present:

• the person experience, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others
• the person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Note: In children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior.

B. The traumatic event is persistently reexperienced in one (or more) of the following ways:

• recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. Note: In young children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of the trauma are expressed.
• recurrent distressing dreams of the event. Note: In children, there may be frightening dreams without recognizable content.
• acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated). Note:In young children, trauma specific reenactment may occur.
• intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.
• physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness (not present before the trauma), as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

• efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or converstaions associated with the trauma
• efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the trauma
• inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma
• markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities
• feeling of detachment or estrangement from others
• restricted range of affect (e.g., unable to have loving feelings)
• sense of a foreshortened future (e.g., does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span)

D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma), as indicated by two (or more) of the following:

• irritability or outbursts of anger
• ddifficulty falling or staying asleep
• difficulty concentrating
• hypervigilance
• exaggerated startle response

Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criteria B, C, and D) is more than 1 month.
The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.