Abusos IVE y SSVM

Tag: mental health

  • The “Crystal Generation” at the Institute of the Incarnate Word: A Mechanism of Institutional De-Responsibility

    The “Crystal Generation” at the Institute of the Incarnate Word: A Mechanism of Institutional De-Responsibility

    The term “crystal generation” has become prevalent in contemporary discourse to designate young people as emotionally fragile. Although it is used colloquially, in institutional contexts it can be transformed into a tool for emotional control, a mechanism described in depth by studies of social psychology and sectarian dynamics (Singer, 2003; Lalich & Tobias, 2006; Hassan, 2018).

    At the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), this expression serves to exonerate the institution from responsibility for the psychological suffering of young members and to reinforce a system of vertical obedience, a dynamic widely documented in the literature on authoritarian organizations (Lifton, 1989; Barker, 1984).

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  • Psychologist Marcos Randle and the Institute of the Incarnate Word

    Psychologist Marcos Randle and the Institute of the Incarnate Word

    We publish here an anonymous testimonial left on our blog that reflects information that we have been receiving in recent years.

    I was a seminarian at the “Finca”*. They squeezed me with the schedules (as well as me, everyone). I was exploited with jobs, since I was in charge of many things, and I hardly had time to study, and sometimes to sleep. I could no longer pray, because of the stress and anxiety I was enduring due to the sickly rhythm of that asylum (and not a Catholic seminary).

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