Stripped Naked

By Lauren Stratford

"Ms. Stratford has presented the how' and the why' of ritual abuse in such a systematic, well-documented way that even the most vehement nonbeliever will surely think again. I will use this book as a basic text to explain the concepts of brainwashing, programming, and mind control to judges and juries when I am called to present expert testimony in cases where ritual abuse is alleged." -Pamela J. Monday, Ph.D., Editor Newsletter for the Society for the Investigation, Treatment, and Prevention of Ritual and Cult Abuse " Baby' came on the scene when I was about four years old, splitting off in a moment from the trapped and terrorized little girl that I was then in order to experience and remember the trauma that I could not handle." -From Stripped Naked
Baby is just one of Lauren's alter personalities. In this, her latest book, she emotionally portrays Baby and several of the others whom she recently discovered operating inside of her. Each personality was created to absorb the emotional and physical pain of her abusive childhood, which included forced membership in a cult. Cult members programmed her alters to serve the cult's objectives. Some were even programmed to punish Lauren if she exposed the cult, including punishment as severe as suicide. Stripped Naked is a viable resource for mental health professionals, clergy, law enforcement, survivors, and lay people. With humor, heart, and honesty, it describes how Lauren and her therapists meet the personalities, and it addresses the key issues of recognizing abuse and alters, and then learning how to function in every day life. Lauren Stratford takes readers on a harrowing journey to recovery, which she describes as elevating a Multiple Personality Disorder into a Multiple Personality Gift. She is also the author of Satan's Underground and I Know You're Hurting: Living Through Emotional Pain, both of which are published by Pelican.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882899678
• ISBN13: 9780882899671
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Firebird Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Truth will always win out!!!!

I would have to agree that there are many in Denial about Lauren Stratford. There were many inside and outside the church who wanted to discredit and demonize her. For those of you who deny her story, do you deny the existence of pornography and satanism? Do you believe they exist? Lauren's story needs to be told and told again, and who among us, if having gone through the same thing she did, would have not maybe behaved in the manner which she did. The abuse she went through, including all kinds of pornographic and satanic ritual abuse. I dare anyone to ever be "normal" again. But she won through the power of Jesus Christ. And if there's anything Satan wants to do, it is to discredit the name of Jesus Christ. The investigations can go on all day long, but the Truth will always win out!!! Lauren's story will touch your heart. You need only to put on love and compassion.

THE ONLY FICTION HERE ARE THOSE IN DENIAL

THE ABOVE REVIEW SAYS:"Lauren Stratford has been investigated by a number of Evangelical ministries and has been shown to be a writer of fiction."Yeah, and you are someone who blindly believes everything you hear, have others' beliefs for your own, never question the government...etc. You are what's wrong with this world---Sit in judgement, all the while being a foolish follower. You tell us not to believe everything we read---and yet, you believe these 'Evangelical ministries' that 'proved' her story to be 'fiction'. Sorry, but the only fiction here is people who try to be something they're not...

Helpflul to those who sufferd childhood trauma

It's very sad when those who have been abused are sought after to be discredited. It sure makes it hard to be a vicitim and not be belived because people are always out to discredit things they don't want to belive happen. Stripped Naked is a testimony of one woman's walk through Mulitiple Personalites.. a ray of hope for others like her out there.