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Understanding the Effects of Adult Grooming and sexual exploitation in Spiritual Settings
Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy, Relationship Support, Spiritual Abuse
Understanding the Effects of Adult Grooming and sexual exploitation in Spiritual Settings
Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy, Relationship Support, Spiritual Abuse

This article by psychologist Kylie Walls explores the psychological effects of adult sexual grooming and exploitation in religious and spiritual settings, including clergy sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, and clergy sexual misconduct. Written by a psychologist specialising in religious trauma, it examines how grooming works in faith communities, why survivors often do not recognise it as abuse, and what the aftermath looks like, including PTSD, complex trauma, shame, loss of faith, and disrupted sense of self.

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Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy, Relationship Support, Spiritual Abuse
Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy, Relationship Support, Spiritual Abuse Kylie Walls Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy, Relationship Support, Spiritual Abuse Kylie Walls

The Sign in the Window: On Complicity, Ideology, and the Architecture of Spiritual Harm

What sustains harm in spiritually abusive churches isn't the perpetrator alone — it's the quiet, semi-conscious compliance of those around them. A psychologist’s analysis of Václav Havel's The Power of the Powerless and his greengrocer as a lens for religious trauma, bystander complicity, and the slow work of repair.

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