by Ellen Lacter, January 1, 2025 I. Brief Background on MKULTRA In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr. Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA’s MKULTRA program, which included experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new dissociated identities, new memories, and responses to hypnotic access codes. In 1972, then-CIA director Richard...
Compiled by Ellen Lacter, Ph.D., January 1, 2026 Resources for DID and PTSD: I. For Partners II. Healing Sexuality III. Parenting Traumatized Children I. For Partners 10 Tips For Spouses and Partners of Survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder, by Kathy Broady, MSW A Relationship with 40 Identities (Lovers with Dissociative Identity Disorder) (video) After the War Zone: A Practical Guide for...
On September 19, 2025, I presented at the International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference on: Modern-Day Trafficking of Young Children (< 13): Prevalence, Severity, Familial Offenders, Production of Child Abuse Materials, and Organized Crime Networks. The nature of child sexual abuse and trafficking crimes against children is rapidly evolving in the modern era. Psychological and...
by Ellen Lacter, Ph.D., February, 2025 I have been working as a psychologist with victims of extreme and sadistic child abuse, including ritual abuse, torture-based mind control, and production of sadistic child abuse materials, for 30 years now. In the last 15 years, my understanding of coercion of victims to harm and kill other victims, including victims’ pets and other animals, has...
In about 1986, based in my work with abused children, I (Ellen Lacter) began to create a list of reasons why children cannot disclose their abuse or why they delay disclosure. I found this list to be a very useful therapy tool with victims of all ages – children, teens, and adults. Many child abuse victims condemn themselves for not being able to disclose their abuse earlier. Well-meaning...
Presented at: The Centre for Knowledge on Transgenerational Organized Violence (Kenniscentrum – KTTG), The Netherlands, Semi-annual Online Conference on April 22, 2023, and The Survivorship Ritual Abuse and Mind Control 2023 Online Clinician Conference on May 19, 2023. Course Description: This presentation will examine the psychological mechanisms that perpetuate the cycle of extreme child abuse...
Introduction: The Purpose of this Article There are many kinds of networks that abuse children and adults. These include ritualistic abusers, clergy abusers, government mind control projects, sex traffickers, and producers of child abuse materials. Perpetrators of these crimes use many methods to maintain long-term control of their victims. These include standard tactics of organized crime, such...
I am a survivor of trafficking and human experimentation, beginning in childhood. It is quite rare for those of us who were used in still-classified experimentation programs to find evidence of what happened to us, but in 2017, an unforeseen event led to such a discovery.In the spring of that year, I was watching The Keepers, a Netflix documentary about the unsolved murder of a nun in 1965...
Remembering Why I Could Not Tell Victims of child abuse condemn themselves unfairly for so much, for the abuse, for being powerless, for being “weak,” for not escaping, for not fighting off a larger and terrifying perpetrator, and for not having told someone sooner. They forget the impossible odds. They forget how they calculated the consequences if they resisted or fought. Perhaps they fought...
In 1996, Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D., neuroscientist at New York University, wrote a seminal book in the field of psychotraumatology: The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. (Simon and Schuster). (Link to purchase on Amazon: ) In this book, LeDoux provides extensive neurological and psychological evidence for two long-term memory systems: An explicit memory system...