Ruby Franke and religious trauma

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Ruby Franke and religious trauma

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This therapist’s most recent analysis of some of the issues behind the Franke/Hildebrandt kettle of fish:

She remarks on how dangerous it is for religious leaders, therapists and other people of influence to disengage people from their own instincts and to defer, instead, to that leader’s counsel, making them dependents. This is one of the red flags raised by the content put out by ConneXions. But it’s also something inherent in Mormonism.

She also explains the damage that is done by moralizing a person’s natural behaviors. Examples might include calling a child sneaky for wanting to stay up late and asking for book after book to be read to them, which is probably a bid for attention and time with a parent. But it also extends to things like addiction which, psychologically, are merely ways to deal with unresolved pain. Instead of calling those people with addictions weak and seeing the behavior as wrong and sinful - it would be more helpful to see the addiction as a symptom of a wound that needs to be healed.

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