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The particular evil that has given rise to this amendment is the pattern of charlatan therapists or counsellors securing clients or patients, usually young and deeply troubled, and then effectively taking over their lives. Typically, such clients are having difficulties in coming to terms with their world. They are often gullible, far too credulous and easily led. Tragically, the pattern of abuse—for such it is—far too often involves the quack therapists persuading their young clients that they have been abused by their parents or families as children, implanting in them false memories of dreadful abuse, often sexual abuse, that never happened, and quite intentionally alienating them from their families. Clients are then led to believe that their parents and families are responsible for all that has gone wrong in their lives and come, under the influence of this insidious persuasion, to rely on their counsellors by a form of transference for misplaced support and false guidance. Far too often, this malign process has led to separation of young people from their families, sometimes permanent, frequently lasting for years.