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I want therapy. No. No. You’re going to call in sick. What do you know about me? Are you flattering me? I don’t like the way I feel. Like Shit. All of the time. I want you to fix that. Killing Eve s4e3: A Rainbow in Beige Boots, Villanelle, BBC 2018
I’m going to be a licensed massage therapist. The Sopranos s5e1: Two Tonys, Tony Blundetto, HBO 2004
Here he is – Mr Clean. The Sopranos s5e3: Where’s Johnny? Tony re Tony Blundetto
I’m serious about this massage therapy. I told my cousin I want to stay a civilian. ibid. Tony Blundetto
Some people don’t realise what massage involves. The Sopranos s5e6: Sentimental Education, Tony Blundetto
Even in 2013 homosexuality is still seen by many to be a psychological problem. And something that can be cured. A growing movement exists on both sides of the Atlantic offering controversial gay to straight conversion therapies. Christian Jessen, Undercover Doctor Cure Me: I’m Gay, Channel 4 2014
Aversion therapy ... free on the NHS 1948 to the 1980s. ibid.
These addiction-based therapies are still carried out all over America. ibid.
Reparative Therapy: $100-140 per hour. ibid.
Preaching that homosexuality is a curable dysfunction has dangerous consequences. Stephen Fry: Out There, BBC 2013
America is the home of reparative therapy. ibid.
In the late ’90s, 16 children were removed from their parents and never came back. There ensued 16 years of controversial trials also known to the press as ‘the Devils of Lower Modena’. Veleno: The Town of Lost Children, captions, Sky Documentaries 2022
A paedophile ring organised parties and took pictures. ibid. television news
In 2015 journalist Pablo Trincia stumbled on the case and after years of investigations, he produces the podcast Veleno. ibid. caption
Satanic rituals inside graveyards: the adults were sentenced to dozens of years of jail and never saw their children again. ibid.
‘I was blindfolded when they did those things. They had masks. They wore the mask of a devil and the robe of a monk.’ Veleno: The Town of Lost Children II, girl
It was really strange that a little girl in another department with another colleague was telling and describing similar scenarios. ibid. therapist
Following the seven convictions in the first trial in early 1998 social services were informed of new allegations of child sexual abuse. ibid. commentary
If social workers could do what they wanted, then the threat to your children felt like the breath on your neck of a ferocious beast chasing you. ibid. mother
In the following months, investigations continued at full speed. In a protected place and without the knowledge of their families the children participated in a series of filmed meetings with the therapists appointed by the judge for the preliminary investigation. ibid. commentary
There was confidence in the community that this was a judicial error. So this community voiced its conviction. ibid.
What pained me most was to know they were in the hands of scum. Those people were scum. Veleno: The Town of Lost Children III, mother
According to the prosecution, Don Giorgio is the leading figure of the group of alleged paedophiles. ibid.
I don’t know why they are accusing me. I do not even know the children. ibid. Don Giorgio
I felt the therapists were more powerful than the magistrates. Can this be a fair trial? I would say no. ibid. woman
The police never noticed anything. In this process there was talk of ritual murders. No child’s body was ever found, not a trace of blood. There was talk of unearthed caskets. Not a square centimetre of unearthed soil was ever found. ibid. Don Giorgio’s lawyer
All the defendants were convicted including for the charges of ritual cemetery abuse. ibid.
June 9th 2010: Convicted in the first degree, acquitted on appeal overturned sentence for two parents from Modena accused of abusing their four children. ibid. television news
‘They made me kill little kids’ [child] … How did they come to tell those stories? Who talked to them? How did they talk to them? Veleno: The Town of Lost Children IV
It was impressive to discover how this story, which at first seemed like a strange unique provincial story was actually part of a gigantic phenomenon. It was a recurring theme … Around the United States there sprung up like mushrooms cases that had similar elements. ibid.
How can a child tell such a story while laughing and joking? ibid.
None of them [children and adoptive parents] had any doubts. They all believed that the truth had come out from the trial. ibid.
I saw violence in that [therapist] attitude … Depending on the terms you use in your question, you risk influencing the answer. ibid.
It is disputed that the methods of empathic listening which do not take into account the potential presence of suggestions are dangerous because they risk creating false memories and accusations. ibid.
‘Honestly, I’m not even sure any more what happened or didn’t happen. They took me away when I saw little. So many therapists also try to make you say what they want you to say. ibid. Dario’s interview
So we understand that we are dealing with a young man who for 20 years of his life believed he had killed children he never killed. ibid.
An entire community had suddenly awakened from its slumber. ibid.
Among the 16 removed children, there is one [Simona] who never accused her parents. Alessia had contacted her via Facebook but she never replied. However, I had spoken to her mother Daniela. And her story struck me very much because she had never been involved in any of the trials and yet she had never been able to get her daughter back home. Veleno: The Town of Lost Children V
Police officers secretly recorded conversations between psychologists and children at a centre in Bibbiano called Centro La Cura which is run by the Hansel and Gretel Study Centre. ibid.