{"id":2208,"date":"2016-06-16T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2016-07-05T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T00:32:56","slug":"hes-still-helping-survivors-of-imaginary-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s still \u2018helping survivors\u2019 of imaginary trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160616Wonkette.jpg\" alt=\"160616Wonkette\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160616Wonkette.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160616Wonkette-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>June 16, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought <span class=\"bracket\">\u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d<\/span> was a wholly debunked artifact of the 1980s, but apparently there are still a few \u2018therapists\u2019 out there dedicated to \u2018helping survivors\u2019&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the Satanic Temple (who aren\u2019t really \u201cSatanists\u201d so much as anti-theocracy advocates), the \u2018therapists\u2019 seem to be the ones who are desperately in need of help. And perhaps having their licensure revoked&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Satanic Temple\u2019s \u2018Grey Faction\u2019 \u2013 \u2018dedicated to combating pseudoscience and witch-hunting conspiracism with rational inquiry\u2019 \u2014 has posted a petition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/office-of-consumer-affairs-and-business-regulation-ocabr-division-of-professional-licensure-ma-revoke-license-of-counselor-neil-brick-who-claims-he-raped-killed-while-mind-controlled\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org<\/a>\u00a0asking the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation to investigate counselor Neil Brick&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrick, head of something called \u2018Survivorship,\u2019\u00a0runs conferences where some seriously weird advice is given. For instance, you shouldn\u2019t trust your spouse, since they may actually be an agent of the mind-control conspiracy. The petition asks Massachusetts authorities to investigate a number of \u2018potentially dangerous\u2019 and \u2018radically paranoid, unsubstantiated, delusional beliefs\u2019\u00a0 pushed by Brick:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Neil Brick claims to believe that he was brainwashed to be an assassin for the Illuminati\/Freemasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Neil Brick claims that, as part of his brainwashing by the Illuminati\/Masonic conspiracy, he was programmed to rape and kill \u201cwithout feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Neil Brick claims that he once murdered a man in an unreported incident in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Neil Brick holds regular conferences wherein his delusional beliefs are propagated to mental health consumers by him and his co-conspiracists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">At a very recent conference (May 2016), Neil Brick expressed concern that attendees could \u201ctrigger\u201d mind-control programming by touching their faces. Neil Brick imposed a prohibition against face-touching and asked that people sit on their hands. (Keep in mind, this is a man who claims that his own mind-control programming impels him to rape and kill. The implication is clear.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Neil Brick continues to propagate debunked and disregarded narratives of concealed occult crimes from the height of the \u201cSatanic Panic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Neil Brick demonstrates a complete lack of understanding regarding cognitive\/behavioral development, claiming to believe that Masons and\/or Satanic cults torture fetuses so as to begin mind-controlling them at the earliest possible stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/602945\/mental-health-professional-thinks-someone-programmed-him-to-murder-could-it-be-satan\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Health Professional Thinks Someone Programmed Him To Murder. Could It Be \u2026 Satan?<\/a>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at Wonkette (June 14)<\/p>\n<p>It took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=336\">several requests<\/a>,\u00a0but in 2012 the Charleston-based nonprofit Darkness to Light <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=483\">withdrew its approval<\/a>\u00a0of Brick\u2019s Survivorship site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 16, 2016 &nbsp; \u201cWe thought \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d was a wholly debunked artifact of the 1980s, but apparently there are still a few \u2018therapists\u2019 out there dedicated to \u2018helping survivors\u2019&#8230;. \u201cAccording to the Satanic Temple (who aren\u2019t really \u201cSatanists\u201d so much as anti-theocracy advocates), the \u2018therapists\u2019 seem to be the ones who are desperately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}