Supposed mind-control victims share the same narrative structure as other claimed abuse victims.

Evidence

In any case, enough individuals believe they have undergone such experiences to constitute themselves a community of victims, complete with the apparatus of self-help groups and hypnotic regression that is evident in other victim populations. Indeed, self-described mind-control victims tend to resemble other, better-known groups, including those who consider themselves victims of childhood sexual abuse, satanic ritual abuse, and abduction by extraterrestrials. One fi nds the same motifs of sexual violation and the disbelief of others. To these woes the people focused on mind-control traumas add a repertoire of technologically sophisticated tortures and body implants that allegedly made them robotic servants of the New World Order. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 393

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the literature on moral panics and recovered-memory controversies (satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s-90s) and to social-constructionist work on victim communities. — connects to: Self-described mind-control victims form communities despite no evidence — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 392

Broader Connections

• Self-described mind-control victims form communities despite no evidence #complicates (0.75) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 392