Cult And Ritual Abuse

Author : James Randall Noblitt,Pamela Sue Perskin
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0275966658

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Cult and Ritual Abuse by James Randall Noblitt,Pamela Sue Perskin Pdf

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.

Author : James Randall Noblitt,Pamela Sue Perskin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012436809

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Cult and Ritual Abuse by James Randall Noblitt,Pamela Sue Perskin Pdf

The purpose of this book is to educate professionals and the public regarding the etiology of cult and ritual trauma disorder. There have been increasing numbers of reports of ritual abuse by individuals and cults that have been made to law enforcement agencies, courts of law, child protection services, mental health professionals, media, and clergy. This team of researchers bring an objective approach to a subject that has been either sensationalized or dismissed for lack of evidence. By combining patients' descriptions with careful reading of the literature on cult practices, the authors have provided a much needed resource for understanding and treating trauma associated with cult and ritual experiences.

Author : James Randall Noblitt,Pamela Perskin Noblitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798216068938

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Cult and Ritual Abuse by James Randall Noblitt,Pamela Perskin Noblitt Pdf

This personal yet scholarly journey into the confusing and clandestine world of ritual abuse survivors sheds light on their catastrophic experiences and their efforts to heal afterward. Revised, updated, and expanded, this third edition of a classic study is one of the most authoritative and evenhanded volumes to tackle its hotly debated subject matter. Incorporating the authors' firsthand observations, the book provides historical, anthropological, and psychological context for contemporary reports of both ritual abuse and ritual crime. In addition to sharing patient vignettes and a history of cult and ritual abuse in society, the authors explore fascinating topics related to these practices, among them what triggers personality shifts for victims even many years after the abuse has stopped. Importantly, the book shows how ritual abuse affects society as a whole, influencing civil and criminal law, politics, legislation, social movements, social welfare, and psychological theory. It provides unique insights into the scientific study, forensic investigation, and implementation of social services for survivors of cult and ritual abuse, discusses new research and treatment strategies, and establishes the foundation for a psychological diagnosis to be called Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder.

Author : Colin A. Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0802073573

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Satanic Ritual Abuse by Colin A. Ross Pdf

. Although Dr. Ross has found no evidence of a widespread Satanic network, he is open to the possibility that a certain percentage of his patients' memories may be entirely or partially historically accurate. In treatment, he recommends that the therapist adopt an attitude hovering between disbelief and credulous entrapment.

Author : Orit Badouk Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429918704

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Ritual Abuse and Mind Control by Orit Badouk Epstein Pdf

People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated, facing the same levels of disbelief and denial from other professionals within the mental health field. This report - based on proceedings from a conference on the subject - presents knowledge and experience from both clinicians and survivors to promote understanding and recovery from organized and ritual abuse, mind control and programming. The book combines clinical presentations, survivors' voices, and research material to help address the ways in which we can work clinically with mind control and cult programming from the perspective of relational psychotherapy.

Author : Pamela Perskin Noblitt
Publisher : Robert Reed Publishers
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Multiple personality
ISBN : PSU:000066022633

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Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century by Pamela Perskin Noblitt Pdf

Allegations of ritual abuse are universal and mental health professionals, theologians, law enforcers, scholars, victim advocates, and others struggle to comprehend the enormity of the devastation left in the wake of these heinous acts. Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century addresses the concerns that naturally evolve from any discussion of this phenomenon from the perspectives of professionals, advocates, and survivors from around the world (eight countries, seven states in the U.S.) * How valid are the survivors' stories? * Is there evidence? * What are the consequences of these acts to the individual and society? * Why have these allegations been ignored or discredited whenever they have surfaced? The authors of these chapters respond to these and other questions in an effort to illustrate the constellation of psychological, health, legal, criminal, societal, and spiritual ramifications of ritual abuse. Chapters address current issues including ritually based crime, civil suits involving allegations of ritual abuse, that are universal. The value of understanding ritual trauma for diagnostic and treatment applications is discussed.

Author : David K. Sakheim,Susan E. Devine
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : UCSC:32106010934559

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Out of Darkness by David K. Sakheim,Susan E. Devine Pdf

The authors bring together leading researchers in the fields of forsenic psychiatry, multiple personality and dissociative disorders, traumatic stress, and religious studies, as well as an FBI agent and two survivors of ritual abuse, to offer a balanced look at the deeply troubling phenomenon of satanism.

Author : Daniel Ryder
Publisher : Compcare Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000029957127

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Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse by Daniel Ryder Pdf

The first comprehensive recovery book to address the issues surrounding satanic cult ritual abuse--what it is, what the signs are, how to recover from it, and what is being done to combat this growing problem.

Author : Margaret Smith
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 006250214X

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Ritual Abuse by Margaret Smith Pdf

Describes the impact of ritual abuse on children, including the formation of multiple personalities, looks at the individuals and groups practicing ritual abuse, and explains what can be done to rescue abuse victims

Author : Alison Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429914461

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Healing the Unimaginable by Alison Miller Pdf

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these most extreme forms of child abuse and mental manipulation.

Author : Michelle Smith,Lawrence Pazder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Recovered memory
ISBN : 0671694332

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Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith,Lawrence Pazder Pdf

"A best-seller, Michelle Remembers was the first book written on the subject of satanic ritual abuse and is an important part of the controversies beginning in the 1980s regarding satanic ritual abuse and "recovered" memory. The book has subsequently been discredited by several investigations which found no corroboration of the book's events, and that the events described in the book were extremely unlikely and in some cases impossible. ... Soon after the book's publication, Pazder was forced to withdraw his assertion that it was the Church of Satan that had abused Smith when Anton LaVey (who founded the church years after the alleged events of Michelle Remembers) threatened to sue for libel"--Wikipedia.

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : PSU:000025523263

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Satanic Ritual Abuse by Dee Brown Pdf

Author : George A. Fraser
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0880484780

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The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse by George A. Fraser Pdf

Since the mid-1980s, when stories of ritualized satanic or sadistic abuse drastically increased, ritual abuse has become entangled in the controversy surrounding false memory syndrome and recovered memory. Because this debate has not been conclusively resolved, therapists require methods and guidelines for treating patients who present a history that may involve abusive satanic or sadistic rituals. In The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse, experts in the field offer balanced, carefully considered advice on approaches therapists can use when patients report they have experienced ritual abuse. These qualified clinicians explain and demonstrate their techniques and offer caveats against accepting a patient's recollections at face value. Additional chapters deal with psychological and pharmacological treatment programs that have helped patients whether the reports of abuse were accurate, symbolic, or false. Several illustrations vividly depict the types of abuse that therapists will hear from these patients. For further guidance, an appendix containing the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees' "Statement on Memories of Sexual Abuse" is also included.

Author : Jeffrey S. Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015029949578

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Satanic Panic by Jeffrey S. Victor Pdf

Again and again we are told - by journalists, police, and fundamentalists - that there exists a secret network of criminal fanatics, worshippers of Satan, who are responsible for kidnapping, human sacrifice, sexual abuse and torture of children, drug-dealing, mutilation of animals, desecration of churches and cemeteries, pornography, heavy metal lyrics, and cannibalism. This popular tale is almost entirely without foundation, but the legend continues to gather momentum, in the teeth of evidence and good sense. Networks of 'child advocates', credulous or self-serving social workers, instant-expert police officers, and unscrupulous ministers of religion help to spread the panic, along with fabricated survivors' memoirs passed off as true accounts, and irresponsible broadcast 'investigations'. A classic witch-hunt, comparable to those of medieval Europe, is under way. Innocent victims are smeared and railroaded. Satanic Panic uncovers the truth behind the satanic cult hysteria, and exposes the roots of this malignant mythology, showing in detail how unsubstantiated rumor becomes transformed into publicly-accepted 'fact'.

Author : Alison Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429911255

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Becoming Yourself by Alison Miller Pdf

In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is designed for survivors of these abuses. It takes the survivor systematically through understanding the abuses and how his or her symptoms may be consequences of these abuses, and gives practical advice regarding how a survivor can achieve stability and manage the life issues with which he or she may have difficulty. The book also teaches the survivor how to work with his or her complex personality system and with the traumatic memories, to heal the wounds created by the abuse. A unique feature of this book is that it addresses the reader as if he or she is dissociative, and directs some information and exercises towards the internal leaders of the personality system, teaching them how to build a cooperative and healing inner community within which information is shared, each part's needs are met, and traumatic memories can be worked through successfully.