How to recognize a dangerous program.

The following terminology and lists have been developed by traumatized parents who witnessed or allowed abuse of their children by "professionals" who used their "expert power" to convince them that this was "what their child needed." Some of the parents were not at all aware of what was being done to their child in a school setting or given the opportunity for informed consent as to what their children's "treatment/education" would entail.

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"What could be the psychic state of a child overwhelmed with the primitive affect [emotion] precursors which involve a massive response mobilizing the entire autonomic system as well as the precursors of pain? How can we imagine the child's TIMELESS horror? Our clues from experience with adults who have suffered severe psychic trauma as children indicate that this kind of experience is the most terrible and indescribable hell known to man, literally a fate worse than death...the feeling of the inconsolable state of a totally overwhelmed child....global distress occasioned by the total, unregulated flooding with the undifferentiated, somatic, preverbal, timeless, archaic affects..." (Henry Krystal M.D., TRAUMA AND AFFECTS, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 33 (l978), p.97)