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The Mirror – Craig Childress PsyD

The Mirror.

To reveal that which is hidden. It’s an Archetype – a deep-pattern in our collective minds.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show us who we are.

It’s active. It’s grabbed our our mind’s unfolding. We’ve been collectively “captured” by an Archetype.

You think you’re “choosing” – no, you’re not. Your “choices” are arising from places inside you that you don’t comprehend. You are so much more than your consciousness is aware of, and it’s the more that controls what you think and do, not you.

The Mirror is here because it’s time for us to transform into something… more. Our minds formed in times before that are no longer relevant.

We’ve reached the world of abundance we were promised when we set out upon our journey away from chipping stone tools onto a path we call “civilization” – a path of immense trauma and suffering.

The price in human suffering was extraordinarily high to get to this world of magic and plenty. We’ve arrived, the children’s children of those who set out on this new path of evolution so many years ago.

On our journey to here, our unconscious balanced our conscious orientation, unfolding the path beneath our steps as we walked blindly into a future unseen. Now our collective unconscious is preparing our minds for the next step – a doozie.

We’re transforming in our minds to something different. We – inside – will be different.

The Archetype of the Mirror guides us – once you see it, you’ll see it everywhere because it is… everywhere. In us, through us, we are the Mirror that reflects us to us.

The next Archetype in the sequence if the patterns hold true will be the Cauldron of Rebirth – ugh – that’s not pleasant either. But… the rebirth is magnificent – the Phoenix rising is wonderful.

But for the Phoenix to rise from the ashes… there must be ashes.

Believe me, don’t believe me. I don’t really care. I have five more years plus-or-minus two here in this place, then it’s entirely your concern and entirely none of mine.

It’s the way of things.

The problem is NOT that we don’t know what the problem is. The problem is NOT that we don’t know how to fix the problem. The problem is that you don’t listen.

The reason you don’t listen is because you’re working some things out – you have a parasite of trauma in your minds. It’s not us, but it controls us, it makes us do things – terrible things.

It makes you not listen to anything that would expel the mind-virus within us. It wants to live… in us.

We are the host-organism for an alien creature-thing that lives in our minds, in our attachment networks, in our love-and-bonding system.

It’s a specific set of damaged neural networks in the love-and-bonding system of our brains – damaged by trauma – and it’s passed from one generation’s mind to the next through the damaged parenting that the damaged love creates.

The trauma damages our mind – our damaged mind damages our parenting – our damaged parenting inflicts the trauma on the child, damaging their love-and-bonding system… and so it moves from generation to generation, mediated by the damaged parenting that the unresolved trauma creates.

The Mirror will show us – us – so we can extract the mind-parasite that’s formed through thousands of years of immense suffering received through our Ages of Violence – our Ages of Empires – our Ages of Trauma.

It’s my pathology. I’m a trauma psychologist out of foster care, the trans-generational transmission of trauma is spot-on my pathology of expertise. I see it.

I’ve read its source code. I know what the pathogen is going to do before it does.

Which means… I know what you’re going to do before you do.

There are things you must see. Our collective unconscious is opening our self-reflective insight capacity in our frontal lobe executive function systems – The Mirror.

Our self-reflective insight will allow us to see the mind-parasite of trauma that’s within us… so we can extract it and be free of its brutal and savage control.

I’ve read the pathogen’s source code… and it has a Death line – Thanatos. Don’t assume we’ll survive – in truth, none of us are getting out of here alive.

It’s the way of things. The Mirror – to reveal that which is hidden. The sooner you see, the sooner the next phase comes.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857

Forensic Custody Evaluation-Craig Childress

Wanna see something?

When I conduct a line-by-line review of a forensic custody evaluation, I generate a Checklist of Applied Knowledge at the end of my review.

The Checklist of Applied Knowledge provides a structured way to document compliance with Standard 2.04 and the application of the “established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline” as the bases for their professional judgments.

It’s a 4-page checklist with a one-page written Summary. Here’s the written Summary for a recent review:

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Checklist of Applied Knowledge for Dr. Xyz

A Checklist of Applied Knowledge was used to evaluate Dr. XYZ’s application of the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline as the bases for her professional judgments. Based on a review of Dr. XYZ’s report, no domain of established professional knowledge was evident in application as the bases for her professional judgments.

Applied Knowledge:

• Family Systems: Despite Dr. XYZ being tasked with assessing a family conflict, no family systems constructs were evident in her reporting or analysis.

• Attachment: Despite Dr. XYZ assessing severe attachment pathology being displayed by the children toward their father, no application of attachment constructs was evident in her reporting or analysis of the family conflict.

• Trauma Pathology: Despite Dr. XYZ assessing issues of possible child abuse, as well as issues of possible spousal abuse, no constructs from complex trauma or child abuse were evident in her reporting or analysis of the family conflict.

• Personality Pathology: Despite indicators in the reported data of possible personality pathology in a parent (possible narcissistic-borderline-dark personality pathology), no constructs from personality pathology were evident in her reporting or analysis of the family conflict.

• Child Development: Despite assessing childhood pathology across multiple child developmental levels, no constructs from child development were evident in her reporting or analysis.

• Self Psychology: Despite assessing the psychological development of children within the parent-child relationship, no constructs from self psychology were applied regarding the psychological development of children in the parent-child psychological relationship.

• DSM-5 Diagnostic System: No diagnostic constructs from the DSM-5 were applied, despite multiple relevant differential diagnoses including:

1) a possible shared shared/induced persecutory delusion (DSM-5 297.1)

2) a possible factitious attachment pathology being imposed on the child for secondary gain to the parent (DSM-5 300.19),

3) possible psychological child abuse (DSM-5 V995.51)

4) possible spousal psychological abuse of the father by the mother using the children’s induced pathology as the spousal abuse weapon (DSM-5 V995.82)

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Diagnostic Formulation

No diagnosis was provided by Dr. XYZ. No discussion of any diagnostic issues was provided. No theoretical orientation was evident in case formulation, and no organized case formulation was offered.

Treatment Plan Formulation

No treatment plan formulation was offered.

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Hello, I’m Dr. Childress. It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’ve been asked by an attorney in this matter to review your report.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857