Category Archives: memory

Lisa’s Story, Part II: “I saw other children forced to undergo the same things I had to, but for longer. Or being forced to undergo things that were even worse… I remember feeling grateful at first that it wasn’t me. Then I stopped feeling anything at all.”

Day 900. Survivors found: 11 Read part one of my account here. One of the first things to come back to me was the sound of the cries. There were these small, whimpering baby cries of protestation from all around the room. I guess we were all more or less babies at the time. There [...]

Attachment Therapy survivor Katrina: adoptee and former child patient of convicted child molester Thomas Gill speaks out about torture and exorcism by Kathie Bishop

Day 712. Survivors found: 10 Read part one of this account here first. Over the years, I was “treated” by attachment therapists Nonie and Bruce Wilson in Portland, Oregon, Kathie Leah Bishop in Eugene, Oregon and Tom Gill and Beverly Cuevas in Washington. There are so many things that happened, it is so hard to [...]

Attachment Therapy survivor Katrina: adoptee and former child patient of convicted child molester Thomas Gill speaks out publicly for the first time

Day 624. Survivors found: 9 I was adopted when I was four years old. Over the years, I was “treated” by attachment therapists: Nonie & Bruce Wilson in Portland, Oregon; Kathie Leah Bishop in Eugene Oregon; Tom Gill & Beverly Cuevas in Washington. The first time it happened I was about 7 years old. No [...]

"Kate," Holding Therapy survivor: "Everyone in the room was helping to hurt me, and like a rapist, they told me when I just stopped fighting and took it like a good girl, everything would be okay."

Day 542. Survivors found: 8 This blog is being attacked and threatened with permanent suspension. I was not allowed to publish this survivor account until now because of this; WordPress is apparently caving to the collective demands of AT/Holding Therapy proponents Heather Forbes, Ronald Federici, Arthur Becker-Weidman and co. This may very well be the [...]

8 Things I Meant to Say 400 Days Ago

Day 401. Survivors found: 8 #1 I swear, I didn’t know that they did this to anyone else besides me. This brand of abuse happens behind closed doors in a therapist’s offifce, an area often shielded from the eyes of the law. You’re very young, alone and terrified. They purposefully isolate you to a such [...]