Betrayal Trauma: Illegal Psychology
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Prologue: Audience Statement
In the beginning, when one became two, three became the reality that we all can see and feel. From there, either this truth sets in or it doesn’t. There will always be some who doubt, but to choose personally or have to make a profession out of it seems remiss without the meaning of the words used to define professional terms, industry values, philosophical truths, and justify their immoral actions. Like starting a war on a drug or putting innocent children and victims on the stand to testify against a parent or abuser, we must all see how we feel about these standards of professional practice now that we know they are abusively, illegally, and immorally practicing their professions on each other (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; HERE; O’Brien, 2025).
When those who don’t know show us that they don’t know, not knowing that they are showing us, or not believing in how or why they don’t know, their ignorance breeds while our experience with them increases. When their ignorance is used to create a state of addiction in a population (HERE; HERE) and the conditions of psychological warfare (e.g., hybrid wars (HERE)), the professions of psychology and the law better have their terms accurately defined to be able to say that they are acting in the “best interest” or are acting with agreement with the “will of the people”. While psychology can now claim to know what they know (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c), they will not be believed by the legal professionals because their job is dependent on the truth that is right in front of them that they say they don’t see. We also see how paradoxically influencing and questioning psychology helps pad their bottom line with their double standards (HERE), suggesting that addictive classical and operant conditioning are factors to consider when evaluating our current societal dynamics and cultural development (O’Brien, 2023a).
The way psychology sees it, those who know what they see and feel as true, trust and love and are able to thrive effectively. While those who will not accept the truth outside and inside themselves are able to still survive – because this is how people, systems, and society are built: on the back of others. While implying hatred and fear for each other so they can justify their immoral actions and inactions, we see that there is more psychologically going on with the law then the law is willing to accept – let alone change. Those who doubted the existence of truth are those who don’t trust and are avoiding the moral terms, the personal agreement between life and death. To equate professional privilege to morals is criminal in our book (O’Brien, 2024b; HERE) because it violates common sense (O’Brien, 2024c). While they state that they care, their actions, inactions, and citizen betrayal have intergenerationally spoken volumes. By doing so they revealed their developmental age, level of dissociation, what they are addicted to (O’Brien, 2023a) and their level of moral character (O’Brien, 2024b) or type of intellect (O’Brien, 2024c).
To those who do not believe in what they have seen and feel, they cannot be those morally in charge of knowing what is true, what is right, define justice, or know what moral character requires. But this is what exactly appears to be happening professionally (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c), societally (HERE), and historically (HERE). When it comes to who is to blame or who is paying the bill, those who do not know should not be dictating other citizens regarding personal action, choices, or influencing public policy. While those who don’t know label those who do (O’Brien, 2023a), readers can see that this is impacting their moral development and character. Therefore, concluding that some professions and professionals do not seem to not know “who is who” psychologically in life and what that means, as this work will highlight. For those who misuse language to gain control and power are those who induce evil into our societal soul and collective consciousness.
As a result of our work on trauma, dissociation, and addiction (O’Brien, 2023a), those who don’t know can now psychologically and legally know and confirm who is who. Therefore, psychology and all of their symptoms and diagnoses, are admissible in court as evidence; suggesting that the law must live up to their own stated ethics and moral character. But since psychology is diagnostically incomplete (O’Brien, 2023a), we can only respect the law as much as the law respects and values the field of psychology (HERE; HERE). Our observation and lived experience as a receiver of services and clinician is that the law fears psychology and psychology fears law; therefore, immature fears are what are driving Western civilization’s fate. This denial-fear system is informing political decisions, while love (in the form of unconscious feelings, emotions, needs, and psychedelics) is actively being suppressed by their own legal logic. We state, claim, and predict that this is professionally due to their level of dissociation and addiction of the professionals because they are addicted to their trauma (O’Brien, 2023a), outcomes (HERE), and being abusive to other professions (O’Brien, 2024b), and do not know it (O’Brien, 2024c).
Again, since psychology is diagnostically incomplete and missing operational definitions to key terms (O’Brien, 2023a), if psychology actually offered anything tangible to court systems, treatment, or solid diagnostic conceptualizations that the law could use, then they would use them to justify their actions and inactions and they could rely on psychological treatments to perform the kind of healing needed for those who are living with unresolved trauma, dissociation, and addiction. In our clinical experience, this is most people, even the professionals who claim their authority over others (O’Brien, 2024e).
When one knows what they feel and what they see to be truth, they trust their senses and can readily accept what is true. What is true is that we are not alone, we are all one, we are we, what is pseudo is real, and 1 + 1 = 3 (O’Brien, 2024c). Those who don’t, can’t, or won’t accept these truths will be those that depend on their own truths to justify their actions, hence the law and psychology’s dependence on cognitive-based treatments. In this paradox, we find the reasons why we all still bleed; for what is truth without the need for it? Our need to express our research in this format is because unconscious informed consent can psychologically and legally be obtained (O’Brien, 2023c); therefore the law must concede to psychology’s knowledge base or die trying. To put it plainly, laws would have never had to have been born if psychology was understood, societally appropriated, and legally accepted. But since mental health is not accepted societally, the law will continue to be the field of psychology’s abuser (HERE; HERE).
Because we have yet to hear a client say that the trial was less traumatizing than the trauma, we have to question the professions who would put their own sick citizens in prison for “disease” when it is not (O’Brien, 2023a), foods that heal when they said they didn’t (O’Brien, 2023b), and who put victims (even children) on the stand to testify against abusers, while also being abused by the profession and professionals who cross examine them. Psychologically, we have to question an industrialized system that supports taking away religious exemptions for the “public good”, still holds that psychedelics have “no medical value” while negating psychological and spiritual value, allowed for non-addictive opiates to be promoted, or created a safe flu shot “vaccine” for people who didn’t need it – and implicitly forced citizens who don’t need it to take it. For these examples and many more, psychology knowing “who is who”, who is diagnosable and who isn’t, and who is abusing whom is legally admissible in court if these are the behaviors that courts and public policy are allowing. The time has come for the law and policymakers to engage in trauma recovery care before they accept their job. The same goes for those who have made psychology their career. For our part, we have chosen the spiritual path of becoming the Healer that we were not able to become due to society’s need to suppress what it does not understand. In our work we have come to define the unknown, who is in charge, and what their true motives are.
Who, what, when, how, and why can be psychologically and unconsciously answered with the completion of our doctoral meta-cognitive analysis (O’Brien, 2025). Therefore, the law has been psychologically diagnosed (HERE) and we can start to treat these types of systematic bureaucratic abusers the same way they treated us or they can own that they were in denial, had moral failings, and are diseased as well. To the astute reader, their crimes were against humanity and were legally done, citizen sanctioned, and were committed against its own citizenry by professional citizens. Our aim here is to point out what is what, who is who, and how we know; why is it that these types of intergenerational abuses won’t happen again and again and again. Yet, we know that this is how we learn recovery and healing (O’Brien, 2023c). But since who and why history (collective unconscious) has been intergenerationally repeating has been solved by this work (O’Brien, 2023a), we must offer the scientific community the opportunity to apply our research to see if it is replicable and to find out if it is transferable.
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