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By Harvey L. Schwartz

Harvey Schwartz's territory is the serious finish of the kid sexual abuse continuum, the place sufferers' studies are so unthinkable and their variations so extraordinary that the remainder of us are tempted to pronounce them fictions-whereupon we develop into complicit by way of subverting the survivors' struggles to heal. Schwartz synthesizes trauma thought and relational psychoanalysis to make feel of culprit, collaborator, and sufferer pathologies, and exposes the tortuous double-binds of remedy for and with dissociative sufferers. His workplace is the final cease on a type of underground remedy railroad; his say-it-isn't-so case fabric reverberates all through.

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I can't be astute for too long a time. It's too dangerous. 1 have to keep everything ambiguous, vague, tentative, optional, conditional. I need to be able to rearrange things at a moment's notice. If I don't keep my world like that tlien some things could get very clear and then I might have to make judgments about things and people, like my parents. I keep insisting on keeping things in two dimensions so I don't have to deal with life in three dimensions. " "They locked me in a huge meat freezer inside of a small grocery store that one of the guys in the cult I xvas abused by owned, I think.

Under threat of annihilation, the mind mobilizes primitive defenses, perceptions, cognitions, and affects . . in an attempt to metabolize that which cannot be borne . . these primitive defenses involve an autistic retreat from the human other, and an incapacity to know both history and agency (Grand, 2000, p. 12). In order to perfect dissociative survival, traumatized individuals must develop their capacities for camouflage and self-deception. By replacing or displacing consciousness and memories of childhood terror and misery with more benign history, they achieve an essentially life-saving compromise-by-traumatic-necessity between surviving and abandoning themselves.

203). Unfortunately, his/her unconscious motivation to deflect evidence of dissociation is often further potentiated by the incredulity of society and by manipulation on the parts of perpetrators who compound their victims' self-generated shame-based camouflage with intimidation, posthypnotic suggestions, even programmed resistance techniques. V I C T I M I Z A T I O N BY C H I L D H O O D T R A U M A Self-preservation no longer existed in my head. Enduring was all I knew. (Cameron, 1995, p. 92) Necessary Illusions 11 Interpersonal trauma is at its most pernicious when it is embedded in the deliberately inflicted cruelties of a dependent relationship with a betraying, irrational authority-—and just such a relational history is at the core of most severely dissociative patients' experience.

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