CIFS Queensland Conference 2012:
Summary of Sessions
The Trauma of Paychological manipulation
Parliament House, Brisbane
CIFS Qld.
March 9-10, 2012
National Conference at Parliament House, Brisbane
The Trauma of
Psychological Manipulation:
Recognition of and Responses to
Victims and Survivors of
Destructive Groups and Cults
Friday 9th March
& Saturday 10th March, 2012
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Presenters
- Professor Warwick Middleton, MB BS, FRANZCP, MD
- Professor Doni Whitsett, Ph.D; LCSW (Pictured)
- Psychoanalyst Lorna Goldberg
- Psychoanalyst William Goldberg
- Associate Professor Mandy Morgan
- Senior Lecturer Dr Kerry Gibson
- Guest Speaker - Senator Sue Boyce
- Special Guest - Senator Nick Xenophon
The Conference was attended by over 80 delegates, mostly professional counsellors and therapists interested in the phenomena of post-cult trauma, and re-integration back to normal society.
Program Overview
Survivors seek and need mental health professionals who understand
the kind of manipulation and deception that they have endured. Family
members need mental health professionals who can help them make
sense of their experience of loss and the change in their relationships
with their loved ones.
Attendees learned the skills
they need to assess and treat victims of thought reform, and how to
address the issues with loved ones. The conference addressed the
psychological after-effects of cultic abuse and trauma.
Participants acquired a broad background of knowledge of
coercive groups and manipulating, controlling relationships
through presentations by international experts and participation in
practical workshops.
Topics Covered in Lectures or Workshops
- Psychological Manipulation and Trauma
- Mind Control and other dynamics of Cults and
High Demand Groups
- Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Modalities
- Working with PTSD and Trauma related
Symptomatology
- Working with Cult-involved Families
- Educating the public and parents
Conference open to
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- GP's and Health Professionals
- Counsellors
- Social Workers
- Politicians
- Clergy / Pastors
- Support Workers
- Students
- Ex-Members & Family
Outcomes for Participants
- Delegates learned the dynamics of mind control: how it is induced,
how it is maintained, what the after-effects are likely to be
- Delegates will learn to differentiate between mind control and other
forms of manipulation
- Delegates learned how to give advice to families who have loved
ones in cults, including topics such as: how to communicate with
the cult member, how to handle finances, where to get help, how to
maximize the chances of helping the cult member leave the cult
- Delegates learned the best interventions for helping victims of cults,
before, during and after their involvement
- Delegates learned how to conduct psychotherapy with former cult
members, including similarities and differences between therapeutic
work with former cult members and other clients/patients
- Delegates learned to distinguish between symptoms that are the
result of cult involvement and those that have other etiologies
- Delegates learned how to give practical advice to former cult
members to help them move on with their lives
- Delegates learned preventive measures that can be taken by a free
society to help lessen the likelihood that people will fall victim to cults
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