Cult and Ritual Abuse Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America
Revised Edition

Subjects:

• Psychology » Clinical Psychology
• Psychology » Sensation & Perception
• Psychology » Abnormal Psychology
• Anthropology » Cultural Anthropology

Reviews:

• Not all observations and conclusions drawn by the authors may so far meet with the unanimous approval of the respective specialists. However, not is specialist knowledge, but in the courage to ask new questions and in search for answers, to transgress borders between scientific disciplines, is the value of this publication based...it will have a stimulating effect on the future interdisciplinary and unbiased research into ritual violence, Dissociative Identity Disorder as well as the phenomenon of possession.
  —NUMEN 2002
• 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 .

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