The Internal Enslavement project began in the spring of 1999 under the name
Internal Slave Development, with the intention of combining knowledge of
Total Power Exchange relationships, with concepts from mainstream
Psychology.
Internal Enslavement is now based on three main pillars: the Theory of
Psychological Reactance, Transactional Analysis and Evolutionary Psychology.
This page links to relevant books, both from Psychology and from
mainstream BDSM.
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of Amazon, since some of these books have limited availability.
Consensual Slavery and D/s
Miss Abernathy's "Concise Slave Training Manual"
This is a good example of
what Internal Enslavement itself is NOT about!
Abernathy concentrates exclusively on the external
aspects of service with only incidental comments on the psychological states
of "slaves" (servants in our terminology.)
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Amazon.co.uk
(£8.99 £7.33)
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($11.95 $9.56)
"Slavecraft" by Guy Baldwin
This is probably the book about consensual slavery that comes closest to
Internal Enslavement, although Baldwin's main theme is the slave creating and
maintaining the correct mindset.
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(£15.95)
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Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology has emerged during the 1990's as an important source
of new ways at looking at a variety of problems in social psychology. It
remains extremely controversial, since it strikes at the heart of the
1960's Social Science dogma: Evolutionary Psychology argues for the existence
of human nature,
denying that humans are blank slates on which arbitrary behaviour
patterns can be written by society. We believe many of the conclusions of
Evolutionary Psychology are highly relevant to understanding gender-specific
interactions of Masters and female slaves during Enslavement.
Transactional Analysis is used by IE as a theory of personality, and as way
of understanding some negative behaviour patterns which may need to be
removed during Enslavement. Transactional Analysis also provides some other
useful concepts which have been adapted for IE, including the Stroke Economy
- which gave rise to our description of the Dominance Economy.
The Reactance model is a powerful way of understanding how humans cope with
restrictions being placed on their freedom. The theory makes concrete
predictions about the ways in which a slave will react as her freedoms are
stripped away, and this allows her Master to better understand and manage her
progressive enslavement. Acknowledging the existence of Reactance is one of
the main distinguishing features of IE compared to some other schools of
Master/slave relationship, which see anything other than unquestioning
obedience as proof of unsuitability as a slave.
"Psychological Reactance" by Brehm and Brehm
This is the key account of Reactance.
(This is out of print but can sometimes be obtained second hand.)
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"Freedom and Reactance" by Wicklund
Robert A. Wicklund is the "other" writer on Reactance, and
in this book introduced the hydraulic model. (Again this is out of print
but can sometimes be obtained second hand.)
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Other Psychology
"Attitudes and Persuasion" by Petty and Cacioppo
This is a classic textbook which surveys the main theories of attitude and
belief change.
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(£16.90)
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($24.00)
"Battle for the Mind" by William Sargent
Sargent's original 1950's description of conversion experiences, in religious,
political and military contexts with comparisons to the claimed
"brainwashing" of the Korean war. (This included here not so much
for its applicability to Internal Enslavement, but because the processes
it describes are clearly different but often misrepresented as useful in
M/s.)
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This is a good example of
what Internal Enslavement itself is NOT about!
Abernathy concentrates exclusively on the external
aspects of service with only incidental comments on the psychological states
of "slaves" (servants in our terminology.)
This is probably the book about consensual slavery that comes closest to
Internal Enslavement, although Baldwin's main theme is the slave creating and
maintaining the correct mindset.
A very accessible textbook which introduces Evolutionary Psychology and applies it to a wide range of human behaviours. This is intended both as a university textbook but also as an introduction to the subject for interested laypersons.
A collection of academic essays on Evolutionary Psychology, including Daly and Wilson's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel" about the biological underpinnings of women's sexuality being seen as property to be acquired and owned by men.
This study reveals the scientific evidence that female-type brains are
better at empathizing, while male brains are stronger at building systems,
whether concrete or abstract. It also theorizes that autism and Asperger's
Syndrome are examples of the extreme male brain.
(We 
The first popular account of Transactional Analysis (TA), written by its
originator. This is a shorter and more technical introduction to TA than
Steiner's "Scripts People Live."
This is more accessible and detailed than Berne's "Games People Play."
This textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Transactional Analysis. Originally published in the 1980's, it is still one of the most up to date TA textbooks and widely set by UK universities.
Sargent's original 1950's description of conversion experiences, in religious,
political and military contexts with comparisons to the claimed
"brainwashing" of the Korean war. (This included here not so much
for its applicability to Internal Enslavement, but because the processes
it describes are clearly different but often misrepresented as useful in
M/s.)
