Warwick Middleton, MD, is a psychiatrist and a professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is the Director of the Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital is in Brisbane Queensland, Australia. Dr. Middleton is a former president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Today, I interview him about his extensive knowledge and experience treating Dissociative Identity Disorder, Sigmund Freud’s disavowal of DID, and the controversy surrounding The False Memory Syndrome Foundation.
MY NOTES
MPD – Multiple personality disorder
DID – dissociative identity disorder
31:50 “When you’re dealing with DID, you’re dealing with people who have carried an enormous amount of shame, fear, and have been conditioned from the earliest of childhood. When you put together shame, fear, and conditioning, you have all of the elements necessary to keep an abuse survivor silent.”
The abused sometimes form an attachment to the abuser too.
Freud and his followers covered up sexual abuse experiences with their false theories, including Freud’s own sexual abuse experience. Many of the psychoanalysts were abusing their clients.
Many of these psychoanalysts died gruesome deaths
1:03:00 False memory syndrome theory to protect sexual abusers by disbelieving the abused true memories.