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Cult and ritual abuse : its history, anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America

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.
Print Book, English, 2000
Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2000
xvii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
9780275966645, 9780275966652, 027596664X, 0275966658
41090628
The Church in Thetford Forest
On the borderline
Entering uncharted territory
Multiple personalities
Possession, ritual abuse, and dissociation
Empirical evidence of ritual abuse
Breaking the code
The African connection
Other cultures
1990: the year of the awakening
Investigating western occultism
An introduction to Wicca
Satanism?
The politics of psychotherapy
The media
Will "the system" protect them?
Cult and ritual trauma disorder
Nihilists and Revisionists