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Cult and Ritual Abuse Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America
Revised Edition
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James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Sue Perskin
Book Code: B6665
ISBN: 0-275-96665-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96665-2
288 pages
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 6/30/2000
List Price: $38.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This provocative book should be read by all who work in the area. This book provides the reader with a rigorous and interesting account of a contentious issue/
    —Contemporary Psychology     December 2001
  • ...anyone who is interested in the topic of cult and ritual abuse will find this book worth the time to read.
    —Psychiatric Services
Description: 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. The special legal dilemmas, survival problems and day-to-day life experiences of these survivors are examined in a scholarly but sensitive manner. The book presents the idea that ritual abuse is an age-old phenomenon found in many cultures throughout the world. That ritual abuse causes a variety of specific psychiatric symptoms is noted. Special attention is given to the diagnosis dissociative identity disorder that is frequently found among ritual abuse survivors. Suggestions are offered for effectively dealing with the various social and legal problems that result from this severe form of abuse. New diagnoses--cult and ritual trauma disorder--are proposed for this newly identified problem.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Church in Thetford Forest
  • On the Borderline
  • Entering Uncharted Territory
  • Multiple Personalities
  • Possession, Ritual Abuse, and Dissociation
  • Empirical and Forensic 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
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index
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