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Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America » Read Now
by James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Perskin Sue. 269 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

A personal but also scholarly journey into the clandestine and confusing world of ritual abuse, this book provides unique insights into the catastrophic experiences of ritual abuse survivors and their efforts to find healing through psychological treatment. This revised edition provides contemporary...
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A personal but also scholarly journey into the clandestine and confusing world of ritual abuse, this book provides unique insights into the catastrophic experiences of ritual abuse survivors and their efforts to find healing through psychological treatment. This revised edition provides contemporary revelations about cults in existence today and also new therapies developed since the first edition was published in 1995. Co-authored by a clinical psychologist and the executive director of a professional organization dedicated to treating survivors of cult and ritual abuse, this edition will be of interest to both academic and professional markets.
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Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt » Read Now
by Debbie Nathan, Michael Snedeker. 291 pgs.

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...Satans Silence Satans Silence RITUAL ABUSE AND THE MAKING OF A MODERN AMERICAN...Nathan, Debbie. Satans silence : ritual abuse and the making of a modern American...ISBN...
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The Historical Significance of Sacrificial Ritual: Understanding Violence in the Modern Black Fraternity Pledge Process, in The Western Journal of Black Studies » Read Now
by Ricky L. Jones. 12 pgs.

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...Significance of Sacrificial Ritual: Understanding Violence in the...BGFs. Unfortunately, physical abuse is often encountered in the...process is a form of sacrificial...
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Deeply into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage ("Satanic Ritual Abuse" begins on p. 302) » Read Now
by Ronald L. Grimes. 384 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

"There is no other book even remotely like this. "Deeply into the Bone" is an exceptional, imaginative book on the topic of rites and the shaping of human life. Grimes is one of the few people who ably combines scholarly disciplines and perspectives with firsthand narratives, literary essays, films...
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"There is no other book even remotely like this. "Deeply into the Bone" is an exceptional, imaginative book on the topic of rites and the shaping of human life. Grimes is one of the few people who ably combines scholarly disciplines and perspectives with firsthand narratives, literary essays, films and observations of general culture. He is unquestionably a first-rate author and thinker, and this is an unquestionably magnificent book."--Lawrence Hoffman, author of "Covenant of Blood"
""Deeply into the Bone "is guaranteed to change our minds about ritual. Using a global and ethnic array of rites new and old, Grimes shows that contrary to popular belief, the ritual marking of life passages is anything "but" universal. By teaching us how to think comparatively we see that rites of passage are enduring rituals not for their uniformity, but because they serve as cornerstones for cultural and spiritual creativity and innovation."--Madeline Duntley, College of Wooster
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Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior ("Remembrances of Ritual Abuse" begins on p. 172) » Read Now
by Robert I. Simon. 362 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Making Social Work News ("Suspicions of Ritual Abuse in Rochdale" begins on p. 72) » Read Now
by Meryl Aldridge. 238 pgs.

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Child Sexual Abuse and False Memory Syndrome ("Allegations of Ritualistic and Satanic Abuse" begins on p. 442) » Read Now
by Robert A. Baker. 479 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Is repressed memory fact or fiction? What role should therapists play in determining the truth? What if any, weight should these "memories" be given when prosecuting claims of child sexual abuse? Noted experts seek answers that could affect thousands of lives.
Tabloid talk shows and the courts are...
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Is repressed memory fact or fiction? What role should therapists play in determining the truth? What if any, weight should these "memories" be given when prosecuting claims of child sexual abuse? Noted experts seek answers that could affect thousands of lives.
Tabloid talk shows and the courts are overflowing with adults alleging sexual and other abuses they endured as children. Parents have been hauled into court, convicted, and jailed over their children's claims of abuse, many of which have been based upon "memories" that have surfaced after therapists employed dubious techniques and suggestive "therapies". In some cases, the abuse really did occur. Alarmingly, in other cases, it did not.
Noted psychologist and author Robert A. Baker states that experienced and responsible therapists vehemently disagree about the nature, source, and reliability of these "memories". In Child Sexual Abuse and False Memory Syndrome doctors, therapists, victims, researchers, and others search for answers in seven major areas: memory and its recovery, childhood trauma, repression and amnesia, hypnosis, suggestibility, professional problems and ethical issues, as well as needed research and legal implications.
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Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (Chap. 6 "The Crisis") » Read Now
by Joan Acocella. 215 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

In 1989 Elizabeth Carlson, a Minneapolis housewife, went to a psychotherapist for help with depression. Before long the therapist suggested to her that perhaps her problem was actually multiple personality disorder (MPD), a condition that according to the "experts" was connected to childhood abuse...
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In 1989 Elizabeth Carlson, a Minneapolis housewife, went to a psychotherapist for help with depression. Before long the therapist suggested to her that perhaps her problem was actually multiple personality disorder (MPD), a condition that according to the "experts" was connected to childhood abuse. With coaching from the therapist-and under heavy medication-Carlson soon came up with more than twenty-five personalities, including Wild Child, Sister Mary Margaret, and Little Miss Fluff. Horrifying abuse memories invaded her consciousness. She had been molested, she said, by her parents, her grandparents, her great-grandparents. Her family was part of a satanic cult. They raped and killed. They aborted babies and ate the afterbirth. Or did they? In Creating Hysteria Joan Acocella tells how, over the past three decades, thousands of women seeking help for various psychological problems were told that they had multiple personality disorder and were sucked into this nightmarish therapy. In session after session, under their therapists'' prompting, they produced "memories"-and screaming reenactments-of childhood victimization. Asked to search within themselves for hidden personalities, they came up with entire squadrons: children, harlots, angels, devils. Prior to the 1970s, multiple personality disorder was considered an exotically rare condition. But beginning in the 1980s, an estimated 40,000 people, most of them women, had been initiated into this newly popular disorder. This groundbreaking book describes how a group of reckless therapists used hypnosis, drugs, and sheer persuasion to mold their patients'' symptoms into multiple personality disorder. While these practitioners were publishing books and running workshops on how to "spot" MPD, the patients were languishing in hospitals_in some cases for years. They sacrificed their marriages, their jobs. Some even lost their children. Creating Hysteria analyzes the forces that fed into the MPD epidemic: media sensationalism, Christian fundamentalism, the culture wars, and feminism. (Though ruinous to women, this diagnosis was endorsed by many feminists.) Money was another factor. MPD, the experts said, took years to cure. An MPD diagnosis was one way of getting around the new restrictions placed on psychotherapy by managed care. Eventually, victims of this cruel hoax discovered what had happened to them and began suing their therapists. As a result, the MPD empire is now crumbling. In her brilliant concluding chapters, Acocella describes the damage this bizarre craze did to the profession of psychotherapy, to the child-protection movement, and to women''s rights. The patients ultimately triumphed, but the wreckage will take years to clear away. Manufactured Epidemic: The True Story of MPD From 1985 to 1995 an estimated 40,000 Americans, most of them women, were told they suffered from multiple personality disorder. Feminists, fundamentalists, and a substantial portion of the mental health community endorsed this "Sybil-ing" of America. Sensation-seeking television talk shows took up the MPD rallying cry. In Creating Hysteria, Joan Acocella tells a riveting tale of therapists betraying their patients, of a psychotherapy profession at war within its own ranks, and finally of expatients rising up and putting an end to the MPD scandal."Creating Hysteria exposes one of the most frightening mental roller coaster rides taken by thousands of people in modern times. Joan Acocella brilliantly illuminates how the mental health profession spearheaded, perhaps inadvertently, a fin-de-siècle hysteria, the fallout from which will take us into the next millennium. Anyone who has ever been interested in mental health should read this book."_Elizabeth Loftus, president, American Psychological Society"A remarkable exposé of an embarrassing and mischievous epidemic instigated by a small group of ''multiple personality'' proponents. This book provides ample warning for patients and therapists alike."_Her
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Clinical Assessment of Adolescents Involved in Satanism, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Cynthia M. Clark. 8 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...Snowden, K. K. (1988). Satanic cult ritual abuse. Unpublished Manuscript. Tennant-Clark...personality disorder and satanic ritual abuse: The issue of credibility...
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Playing with Fire: Looking at Heaven's Gate, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Martin E. Marty. 2 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...justice and mercy. I might also bring up the idea of religious development. The Abraham story is not the legitimator of child abuse in the name of God. Isaac is not...