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> Ritual Abuse
>
> copied with permission
>
> Ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports,
> journal articles[1][2][3], web pages[4][5][6][7][8][9] and criminal
> convictions of crimes against children and adults [10][11][12].
>
> Contents
> * 1 Definition
> * 2 Origins of the term
> * 3 Evidence
> * 4 References
> * 5 Bibliography
> * 6 External Links
>
> Definition
>
> Ritual abuse has been defined as:
>
> a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults,
> consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving
> the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic. However,
> most survivors state that they were ritually abused as part of satanic
> worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs
> and practices. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode. It
> usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The
> physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The
> sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and humiliating, intended
> as means of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological abuse
> is devastating and involves the use of ritual/indoctrination, which
> includes mind control techniques and mind altering drugs, and ritual/
> intimidation which conveys to the victim a profound terror of the cult
> members and of the evil spirits they believe cult members can command.
> Both during and after the abuse, most victims are in a state of
> terror, mind control, and dissociation in which disclosure is
> exceedingly difficult.[13]
>
> and as
>
> WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (BROAD DEFINITION) Ritual abuse is the abuse
> of a child, weaker adult, or animal in a ritual setting or manner. In
> a broad sense, many of our overtly or covertly socially sanctioned
> actions can be seen as ritual abuse, such as military basic training,
> hazing, racism, spanking children, and partner-battering. Some abuse
> is private...some public. Public ritual abuse may be either open or
> secret. WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (NARROW DEFINITION) The term ritual
> abuse is generally used to mean prolonged, extreme, sadistic abuse,
> especially of children, within a group setting. The group's ideology
> is used to justify the abuse, and abuse is used to teach the group's
> ideology. The activities are kept secret from society at large, as
> they violate norms and laws.[14]
>
> Origins of the term
>
> Pazder introduced the term "ritualized abuse" in 1980, describing the
> experiences of an adult survivor that was disclosing satanic abuse
> memories. He defined the phenomenon as "repeated physical, emotional,
> mental, and spiritual assaults combined with a systematic use of
> symbols, ceremonies, and machinations designed and orchestrated to
> attain malevolent effects." Later definitions came mostly from
> professionals addressing ritual abuse in child care settings.
> Finkelhor, Williams, Burns, and Kalinowski elaborated on Pazder's
> definition, defining ritual abuse as "abuse that occurs in a context
> linked to some symbols or group activity that have a religious,
> magical or supernatural connotation, and where the invocation of these
> symbols or activities are repeated over time and used to frighten and
> intimidate the children." Kelley referred to ritual abuse as the
> "repetitive and systematic sexual, physical, and psychological abuse
> of children by adults as part of cult or satanic worship"[15].
>
> Evidence
>
> There is a great deal of evidence supporting the existence of ritual
> abuse crimes as a worldwide phenomenon. Bottoms, Shaver and Goodman
> found in their 1993 study evaluating ritual abuse claims that in 2,292
> alleged ritual abuse cases, 15% of the perpetrators in adult cases and
> 30% of the perpetrators in child cases confessed to the abuse[16]. "In
> a survey of 2,709 members of the American Psychological Association,
> it was found that 30 percent of these professionals had seen cases of
> ritual or religion-related abuse (Bottoms, Shaver & Goodman, 1991). Of
> those psychologists who have seen cases of ritual abuse, 93 percent
> believed that the reported harm took place and 93 percent believed
> that the alleged ritualism occurred....The similar research of Nancy
> Perry (1992) which further supports (the previous findings)…Perry also
> conducted a national survey of therapists who work with clients with
> dissociative disorders and she found that 88 percent of the 1,185
> respondents indicated ”belief in ritual abuse, involving mind control
> and programming”[17].
>
> Recently an online survey[18] of over one thousand people answered
> questions about ritual abuse and extreme abuse crimes. In a summary of
> the survey [19], it was found that ritual abuse/mind control is a
> global phenomenon. Fifty-five percent stated they were abuse in a
> Satanic cult. Seventy-seven percent of the adult survivors that
> responded "had been threatened with death if they ever talked about
> the abuse." Also, "257 respondents reported that secret mind control
> experiments were used on them as children." Eighty-two percent
> reported being sexually abused by multiple perpetrators.
>
> Anne Johnson Davis in her book Hell Minus One reported that her
> parents confessed to her abuse in writing and verbally to clergymen,
> and to the detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Her
> suppressed memories started when she was in her mid-30s, which were
> fully substantiated by her mother and stepfather[20][21].
> Many scientific journals articles have discussed the reality of ritual
> abuse and its effect on its victims. Some of these articles have
> discussed the extreme nature of these crimes[22], proof of the reality
> of the ritual abuse phenomenon and victims' symptoms[23], the
> connection between ritual abuse, multiple personality disorder and
> mind control[24] and the connections between ritual abuse reports and
> the higher levels of symptoms of childhood sexual and physical
> abuse[25]. Several additional studies and organizations have compiled
> research on the reality of ritual abuse crimes[26][27][28].
>
> Ritual abuse and mind control crimes have also been confirmed in other
> books[29][30].
>
> A study which identified 270 cases of sexual abuse in day care
> settings found that allegations of ritual abuse occurred in thirteen
> percent of the cases[31]. Additional evidence of ritual abuse in day
> care and child abuse cases has been found in news reports, journal
> articles and legal transcripts[32][33][34][35][36][37].
>
> Ritual abuse occurrences have also been found in the
> Netherlands[38]and England[39]. Reports of ritual abuse have also been
> found in multiple personality disorder sufferers[15]. Kent believes
> that intergenerational satanic accounts are possible and that rituals
> related to them may come from a deviant interpretation of religious
> texts[40][41]. Others have stated that the theories and research
> around recovered memory "strongly confirm the reality of...cult abuse"
> of SRA survivors[42].
>
> References
>
> 1. Satanic Ritual Abuse evidencehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evid en...
> 2. 2008 Publications on Ritual Abuse and Mind Controlhttp://www..endritualabuse.org/citation%202.htm
> 3. Lacter, E (2008-02-11). “Brief Synopsis of the Literature on
> the Existence of Ritualistic Abuse”.http://endritualabuse.org/Brief%20Synopsis.htm
> 4. http://ritualabuse.us
> 5. http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/
> 6. http://www.ra-info.org
> 7. http://www.survivorship.org
> 8. http://web.archive.org/web/20080116175648/http://theawarenesscenter.o...
> 9. http://www.endritualabuse.org/
> 10. Believe the children (1997). “Conviction List: Ritual Child
> Abuse”.http://www.ra-info.org/resources/ra_cases.shtml
> 11. The Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archivehttp://www.endritualabuse..org/ritualabusearchive.htm
> 12. Noblitt, PhD, J. R. - An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse
> Controversy (2007)http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at-the-r...
> 13. Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force - Los Angeles County
> Commission for Women "Mind control is the cornerstone of ritual abuse,
> the key element in the subjugation and silencing of its victims.
> Victims of ritual abuse are subjected to a rigorously applied system
> of mind control designed to rob them of their sense of free will and
> to impose upon them the will of the cult and its leaders. Most often
> these ritually abusive cults are motivated by a satanic belief system
> [only on the surface.] The mind control is achieved through an
> elaborate system of brainwashing, programming, indoctrination,
> hypnosis, and the use of various mind-altering drugs. The purpose of
> the mind control is to compel ritual abuse victims to keep the secret
> of their abuse, to conform to the beliefs and behaviors of the cult,
> and to become functioning members who serve the cult by carrying out
> the directives of its leaders without being detected within society at
> large." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/report-of-the-ritual-abuse...htt p://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/ra.htm
> 14. Survivorship - Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.survivorship.org/faq.html
> 15. Van Benschoten, Susan C. (1990). Multiple Personality Disorder
> and Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility Dissociation Vol.
> III, No. 1 "A large number of adult MPD patients in psychotherapy are
> reporting memories of explicitly satanic ritual abuse beginning in
> childhood. The authors of two limited surveys, conducted with a select
> group of MPD therapists, suggest the percentage of reported satanic
> ritual abuse in the MPD population to be 20% (Braun & Gray, 1986) and
> 28% (Braun & Gray, 1987). A survey by Kaye and Klein (1987) reveals
> that 20 of the 42 MPD patients in treatment with seven Ohio therapists
> describe a history of satanic ritual abuse. Ilopponen (1987) states
> that 38 of the more than 70 MPD patients she has treated report
> memories of "satanic-type ritualized abuse " (p. 11). Two inpatient
> facilities specializing in the treatment of MPD report that
> approximately 50% of their patients disclose memories of satanic
> ritual abuse (Braun, 1989a; Ganaway, 1989). Similar accounts of
> satanic ritual abuse are being reported by personally unrelated MPD
> patients from across the United States (Braun, 1989b; Braun & Sachs,
> 1988; Kahaner, 1988; Sachs & Braun, 1987). In addition, according to
> Braun (1989b), the reports of patients in this country are similar to
> data collected from adult survivors in England, Holland, Germany,
> France, Canada, and Mexico...Brown (1986), noting many similar
> allegations in child and adult satanic ritual abuse accounts, suggests
> that reports are not only comparable across geographical and personal
> boundaries, but across generations as well."http://www.empty-memories.nl/dis_90/vanbenschoten_sra.pdf
> 16. Data from Brown, Scheflin and Hammond (1998).”Memory, Trauma
> Treatment, And the Law” (W. W. Norton) ISBN 0-393-70254-5 (p.62)
> Bottoms, B. Shaver, P. & Goodman, G. (1993) Profile of ritual abuse
> and religion related abuse allegations in the United States. Updated
> findings provided via personal communication from B. Bottoms. Cited in
> K.C. Faller (1994), Ritual Abuse; A Review of the research. The
> American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Advisor , 7, 1,
> 19-27
> 17. Noblitt, J.R.; Perskin, P. (2000). Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its
> History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America p.
> 269, Greenwood Publishing Group.http://books.google.com/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C
> 18. Extreme Abuse Surveyhttp://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
> 19. Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from
> three online surveyshttp://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-t r...
> 20. Johnson Davis, Anne Hell Minus One: My Story of Deliverance
> From Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom Transcript
> Bulletin Publishing - ISBN 978-0-9788348-0-7 - 2008http://hellminus1.com/
> 21. Hell Minus One - signed verified confessions of satanic ritual
> abusehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/hell-minus-one-sig. ..
> ‘
> 22. Cozolino, L.J. (1990). “Ritual child abuse, psychopathology, and
> evil”. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 18(3):218-227 "Ritualistic
> abuse is an extreme form of psychological, physical, and sexual
> maltreatment of children in the context of "religious" ceremony. The
> clinical presentation of the victims of such abuse is complex and
> raises many issues related in the diagnosis and treatment of
> psychopathology as well as the importance of spiritual counseling"https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
> 23. Cozolino, L.J.; Shaffer, R.E (Fall 1992) "Adults who report
> childhood ritualistic abuse." Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The
> current state of knowledge. Journal of Psychology and Theology 20(3)
> "Skeptics question the legitimacy of these reports, but many factors
> point to the reality of the phenomenon of ritualistic abuse. First of
> all, the degree of consistency between reports of individuals from
> different parts of the country is very high. The fact that children as
> young as 2 and 3 report ritualistic abuse experiences that mirror
> those reported by adult victims is especially striking in light of the
> fact that young children do not have access to the kind of printed
> information that might conceivably allow an older person to fabricate
> such experiences (Gould, 1987). Second, experiences of ritualistic
> abuse reported by victims of all ages are virtually identical to
> written historical accounts of Satan worship and the like (Hill &
> Goodwin, 1989; Russell, 1972), findings that substantiate our present-
> day understanding of Satanism and ritualistic abuse as
> intragenerational phenomenon. Third, the symptoms from which
> individuals reporting histories of ritualistic abuse tend to suffer
> are consistent with our current understanding of post-traumatic stress
> disorder and the dissociative disorders. The progression in which
> ritualistic abuse survivors respond to psychotherapy places these
> victims squarely within the category of individual who have suffered
> real-not imagined-trauma."https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
> 24. Gould, C., & Cozolino, L. (1992) “Ritual abuse, multiplicity,
> and mind-control.” Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The current
> state of knowledge. Journal of Psychology and Theology 20(3):194-6 "As
> a result of the psychologically intolerable nature of their early
> childhood experiences, victims of ritual abuse frequently develop
> multiple personality disorder (MPD)....Ritual abuse is conducted on
> behalf of a cult whose purpose is to establish mind control over the
> victims. Thus, these perpetrators have a conscious motive for the
> abuse beyond compulsively repeating their own childhood abuse in an
> effort to gain mastery over the original trauma. Most victims state
> that they were ritually abused as part of satanic worship, for the
> purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs (Los Angeles
> County Commission for Women, 1989). Mind control is originally
> established when the victim is a child under 6 years old."https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
> 25. Lawrence, K.J.; Cozolino, L.; Foy, D.W. (1995). Psychological
> sequelae in adult females reporting childhood ritualistic abuse. Child
> Abuse & Neglect 19 (8): 975-984. doi:10.1016/0145-2134(95)00059-H.
> "Women reporting ritualistic features scored significantly higher on
> measures of childhood sexual and physical abuse. Neither PTSD
> diagnostic status nor severity for PTSD nor dissociative experiences
> were significantly different between the groups." http://www.sciencedirect..com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7N-3YB56D. ..
> 26. Gould, C. (1995). Denying ritual abuse of children. Journal of
> Psychohistory, 22(3), 329-339. "The evidence is rapidly accumulating
> that the problem of ritual abuse is considerable in scope and
> extremely grave in its consequences Among 2,709 members of the
> American Psychological Association who responded to a poll, 2,292
> cases of ritual abuse were reported (Bottoms, Shaver, & Goodman,
> 1993). In 1992 alone, Childhelp USA logged 1,741 calls pertaining to
> ritual abuse, Monarch Resources of Los Angeles logged approximately
> 5,000, Real Active Survivors tallied nearly 3,600, Justus Unlimited of
> Colorado received almost 7,000, and Looking Up of Maine handled around
> 6,000. Even allowing for some of these calls to have been made by
> people who assist survivors but arc not themselves survivors, and for
> some survivors to have called more that one helpline or made multiple
> calls to the same helpline, these numbers suggest that at a minimum
> there must be tens of thousands of survivors of ritual abuse in the
> United States. Evidence also continues to accumulate that the ritual
> abuse of children constitutes a child abuse problem of significant
> scope. In 1988, Finkelhor, Williams and Burns published the results of
> a nationwide study of substantiated reports of sexual abuse in day
> care involving 1,639 young child victims. Thirteen percent of these
> cases were found to involve ritual abuse. Other studies of ritually
> abused children have been relatively small. Kelly (1988; 1989; 1992a;
> 1992b; 1993) reported on 35 day care victims of ritual abuse, Waterman
> et al. (1993) reported on 82 children complaining of ritual abuse in
> preschool, Faller (1988; 1990) studied 18 children who had disclosed
> ritual abuse in their preschool, and Bybee and Mowbray (1993) from the
> Michigan State Department of Mental Health identified 62 children
> alleging ritual abuse in their preschool and 53 children who reported
> seeing others be ritually abused. Snow and Sorenson (1990) studied 39
> children reporting ritual abuse in five neighborhoods in Utah, and
> Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991) reported on a total group of 98
> children, at least 48 of whom were believed to be victims of ritual
> abuse. The latter case is the only one cited here which was conducted
> outside of the United States." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/denying-ritual-abuse-of-ch...htt p://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/denyra.htm
> 27. Paley, K. (June 1992). Dream wars: a case study of a woman with
> multiple personality disorder(PDF). Dissociation 5 (2): 111-116.
> "Apologists believe that reports of satanic cult abuse either must or
> could be true. There is some evidence to support the apologists. In
> 1986, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Commonwealth v.
> Drew (397 Mass. 65) upheld the conviction of Carl H. Drew for the
> murder of Karen Marsden. There was evidence that Drew conducted
> satanic ritual meetings and that he had killed Marsden "because she
> wanted to leave the cult " (Commonworth v. Drew, 1986, p. 66). Marsden
> had gone to the police and reported a human sacrifice. Scott
> Waterhouse was convicted of the murder of a twelve year-old girl, and
> the conviction was upheld in the State of Maine v. Scott Waterhouse
> (513 A. 2d 862, Me. 1986). It was ruled that the trial court's
> introduction of the defendant's satanic beliefs was relevant in
> establishing motive and intent. In a study of hundreds of day care
> centers, Finkelhor and Williams found that "... [c] lear-cut
> corroboration of ritualistic practices was available in a few cases,
> such as Country Walk [in Miami], where ritual objects were found by
> police and where the female perpetrators did admit to some of the
> sadistic practices alleged in the children's stories" (1988, pp.
> 59-60). Greaves (1992) describes a video made by the Chicago Police
> Department of two sites allegedly used for satanic ceremonies. He was
> struck by the similarity of the material to descriptions he had heard
> from many of his clients.
> 28. Report of Utah State Task Force on Ritual Abuse Utah Governor’s
> Commission for Women and Families (1992)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/bitstream/1794/1646/1/Diss_5_...
> 29. Secret Weapons - Two Sisters’ Terrifying True Story of Sex,
> Spies and Sabotage by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D.
> and Ted Schwartz. New Horizon Press, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 -
> ISBN0-88282-196-2 "“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility,
> knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors
> understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each
> unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both
> extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not
> yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was
> almost always of a sexual nature…” p. 52 “The government
> researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals,
> decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric
> dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy
> children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired
> for national security and defense.” p. 53 - 54
> 30. Rutz, Carol (2001). A Nation Betrayed. Grass Lake, MI:
> Fidelity Publishing. ISBN 0-9710102-0-X. http://my.dmci.net/~casey/
> 31. Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A National Study - Executive Summary -
> March 1988 - Finklehor, Williams, Burns, Kalinowskihttp://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage _01/...
> "“The study identified 270 “cases” of sexual abuse in day care meaning
> 270 facilities where substantiated abuse had occurred involving a
> total of 1639 victimized children….This yielded an estimate of 500 to
> 550 reported and substantiated cases and 2500 victims for the three-
> year period. Although this is a large number, it must be put in the
> context of 229,000 day care facilities nationwide service seven
> million children…allegations of ritual abuse (”the invocation of
> religious, magical or supernatural symbols of activities”) occurred in
> 13% of the cases.”
> 32. Day Care and Child Abuse Cases Information on the McMartin
> Preschool Case, Michelle Remembers, the Fells Acres - Amirault Case,
> the Wenatchee, Washington Case, the Dale Akiki Case, the Glendale
> Montessori - Toward case, the Little Rascals Day Care Center case,
> Fran’s Day Care case, the Baran case and the Halsey casehttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day-care-and-child-abuse-c.. .
> 33. McMartin Preschool Case - What Really Happened and the Coveruphttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-w h...
> 34. Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site
> 35. deMause, Lloyd, Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children The
> Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 [4]"
> "Cult abuse is increasing, only that-as with the increase in all child
> abuse reports-we have become more open to hearing them. But it seemed
> unlikely that the surge of cult memories could all be made up by
> patients or implanted by therapists. Therapists are a timid group at
> best, and the notion that they suddenly begin implanting false
> memories in tens of thousands of their clients for no apparent reason
> strained credulity. Certainly no one has presented a shred of evidence
> for massive "false memory" implantations." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/why-cults-terrorize-and-ki...htt p://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/whycult.htm
> 36. Summit, R.C. (1994). The Dark Tunnels of McMartin Journal of
> Psychohistory 21 (4): 397-416. “The opportunity came in April, 1990
> with permission from the new owner of the preschool to search for the
> tunnels before he demolished the building and redeveloped the
> property. These soiled but solid citizens managed to find what the
> district attorney had disclaimed: solid, scientific evidence that
> someone had not only dug tunnels under the preschool, but also had
> taken the trouble to try to undo them. The results of this definitive
> excavation are described in meticulous detail in the 185 page Report
> of the Archaeological Excavation of the McMartin Preschool Site by E.
> Gary Stickel, Ph.D., the UCLA archaeologist commissioned to do the
> study....Dr. Stickel's report (p.95) concludes: There is no other
> scenario that fits all of the facts except that the feature was indeed
> a tunnel. The date of the construction and use of the tunnel was not
> absolutely established, but an assessment of seven factors of data all
> indicate that it was probably constructed, used and completely filled
> back in after 1966 (the construction date of the preschool). This age
> assessment has also been corroborated by the consulting Geologist for
> the project, Dr. Don Michael.”http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-dark-tunnels-of-m cmart...http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/mcmartin..htm
> 37. Tamarkin, C. (1994a). Investigative Issues in Ritual Abuse
> Cases, Part I. Treating Abuse Today, 4 (4): 14-23. Tamarkin, C.
> (1994b). Investigative Issues in Ritual Abuse Cases, Part II. Treating
> Abuse Today, 4 (5): 5-9.http://abusearticles.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/investigative-issues-in.. .
> 38. Jonker, F.; Jonker-bakker, P. (1991). “Experiences with
> ritualist child sexual abuse: a case study from the Netherlands”.
> Child Abuse and Neglect 15: 191-196. doi:10.1016/0145-2134(91)90064-K.
> PMID 2043971 "The case of apparent ritual sexual abuse of children in
> a community in the Netherlands is described in terms of the children's
> stories, behaviors, and physical symptoms and the community's reaction
> to reactions of police and other professionals."http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detail...
> 39. Sinason, V (1994). Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse. New
> York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10543-9. Major publications by Valerie
> Sinasonhttp://www.valeriesinason.com/PublicationsVSinason.htm
> 40. Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual
> Satanic Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences”. Religion
> 23(23):229-241.
> 41. Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual
> Satanic Abuse. II: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan
> influences”. Religion 23(4):355-367
> 42. McCulley, D. “Satanic ritual abuse: A question of
> memory.”Journal of Psychology and Theology Fall 1994 22(3) p.167-172
> "leading memory researchers such as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard
> Medical School maintain that traumatic memories, which typically are
> engraved in the sensorimotor processes, are not subject to the same
> kinds of contamination that can affect normal memory. Traumatic
> amnesia, described in the DSM-III-R as psychogenic amnesia, is a
> phenomenon which has been known to mental health professionals for
> more than 100 years. The clinically observed characteristics of
> traumatic memory formation and retrieval match precisely the patterns
> of memory recovery exhibited by SRA survivors, and strongly confirm
> the reality of their cult abuse....If satanic ritual abuse is a
> question of memory, the data redound to the credibility of those
> thousands of individuals who identify themselves as SRA survivors. All
> the scientific studies of memory under trauma indicate that the
> bimodal response described by van der Kolk (1994), whether
> hyperpotentiated or dissociative, heightens the reliability of recall.
> The phenomenon of recovered memory is not a new therapeutic fad
> created by irresponsible clinical experimentation, but a well
> established aspect of trauma. The connection between trauma and memory
> disturbance is made clear by the definition of psychogenic amnesia in
> the DSM-III-R (1987)...Further, there often is corroboration for these
> retrieved memories. Judith Herman and Emily Schatzow (1992) found that
> in a sample of 53 women who disclosed memories of abuse for which they
> had been amnesic, 74% of the subjects were able to find independent
> confirmation from family members, pornographic photos, or diaries.
> Ivor Browne (1990a) found the "internal consistency of the traumatic
> account" persuasive, and also discovered that in the sizeable minority
> of cases where there was an available witness that "in every instance,
> the traumatic events . turn out to be true" (p. 30). There is no
> longer room for denial and disbelief - for evading the grim reality of
> SRA - by recourse to memory research which simply does not apply.
> Solid scientific inquiry does not allow us that luxury; neither should
> Christian conscience."https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
>
> Bibliography
>
> * Brown, Scheflin and Hammond (1998).”Memory, Trauma Treatment,
> And the Law” (W. W. Norton) ISBN 0-393-70254-5
> * Cook, C. (1991). Understanding ritual abuse: A study of thirty-
> three ritual abuse survivors. Treating Abuse Today, 1(4), 14-19.
> * Gould, Catherine. (1992) “Ritual abuse, multiplicity, and mind-
> control.” Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of
> knowledge. Journal of Psychology and Theology 20(3):194-6
> * Hersha, C.; Hersha, L.; Griffis, D.; Schwarz, T (2001). Secret
> Weapons. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press. ISBN 0-88282-196-2.
> * Hill, J. “Believing Rachel” The Journal of Psychohistory 24 (2)
> Fall 1996
> "Rachel's story is one of suffering, courage and hope. As a young
> child she was the victim of unspeakable crimes, but because she
> received therapy and the support of a loving family, she has emerged
> intact." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/believing-rachel-jeanne-hi...
> * Johnston, Jerry (1989). The Edge of Evil - The Rise of Satanism
> in North America. Dallas: Word Publishing. ISBN 0-8499-0668-7.
> * Jonker, F and Jonker-Bakker, I. (1997). “Effects of Ritual
> Abuse: The results of three surveys in the Netherlands.” Child Abuse &
> Neglect 21(6):541-556
> * Kent, Stephen. (1994). “Diabolic Debates: A Reply to David
> Frankfurter and J. S. La Fontaine,” Religion 24: 135-188.
> * Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic
> Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences”. Religion 23(23):
> 229-241.
> * Kent, Stephen. (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic
> Abuse. II: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan influences”.
> Religion 23(4):355-367
> * Leavitt, Frank. Measuring the impact of media exposure and
> hospital treatment on patients alleging satanic ritual abuse. Treating
> Abuse Today 8(4) 1998 pp. 7-13 "This study provides evidence that
> clients who report SRA exhibit a set of associations to SRA-related
> words that cannot be explained by exposure to the popular media or
> from inpatient treatment."http://web.archive.org/web/20000306224228/http://idealist.com/tat/lea...
> * Neswald, D., Gould, C., & Graham-Costain, V. (1991). Common
> programs observed in survivors of Satanic ritual abuse. The California
> Therapist, 3 (5), 47 50. "Increasingly, cases of Multiple Personality
> Disorder (MPD) and Satanic Ritualistic Abuse (SRA) are being reported
> in the psychotherapeutic community. Though controversy concerning
> authenticity remains, such cases are slowly gaining in acceptability
> as a genuine social and psychopathological phenomenon. Concurrently,
> the etiological underpinnings and treatment demands of these special
> patients are being unraveled and understood as never before. As a
> result, it is becoming increasingly clear that perhaps the most
> demanding treatment aspects of such cases concern the problems posed
> by what is known as "cult programming." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/common-programs-observed-i...htt p://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/sracp.htm
> * Noblitt, J.R.; Perskin, P. (2000). Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its
> History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America p.
> 269, Greenwood Publishing Group.http://books.google.com/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C
> * Noblitt, R.; Perskin, P. (2008). Ritual abuse in the 21st
> century p. 552, Bandon, OR: Reed Publishers.http://www.rdrpublishers.com/catalog/item/6339393/5820690.htm
> * Pike, P.L.; Mohline, R.J.(Eds.). Ritual abuse and recovery:
> Survivors' personal accounts. Journal of Psychology and Theology
> Spring 1995 23 (1) p.45-55https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt
> * Sachs, A. & Galton, G. (Eds) (2008). Forensic Aspects of
> Dissociative Identity Disorder London: Karnac. Chapters include
> discussions on ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, mind
> control, extreme abuse, survivor accounts and criminal convictionshttp://www.karnacbooks.com/product.php?PID=25876http://books.goo gle.com/books?id=upHtL9lual0C&dq=Forensic+aspects+of+...&printsec=f rontcover&source=bl&ots=caNy__6-zt&sig=VwIOryBkcSN0nh24CJR3aJkS _gs&hl=en&ei=702fSbmpOo_ftgfe5eSVDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&a mp;resnum=2&ct=result#PPA142,M1
> * Scott, S. (2001). The politics and experience of ritual abuse:
> beyond disbelief. Open University Press. ISBN 0335204198.http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Experience-Ritual-Abuse/dp/033520 4198
> * Smith, Margaret. (1993). Ritual Abuse: What it Is, why it
> Happens, and how to Help by Margaret - HarperCollins
> * Waterman, Jill; Kelly, Robert J.;Oliveri, M. K.;and McCord, Jane
> (1993). Behind the Playground Walls - Sexual Abuse in Preschools. New
> York, London: The Guilford Press, 284-8. ISBN 0-89862-523-8.
> * Young, Walter C., Sachs, Roberta G., Braun, Bennett G., and
> Watkins, R. T. (1993) “Patients reporting ritual abuse in childhood: A
> clinical syndrome. Report of 37 cases.” Child Abuse and Neglect 15(3):
> 181-9
>
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> * An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversyhttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/an-empirical-look-at- the-r...
> * Ritual Abuse articleshttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evid en...
> * Ritual Abuse Caseshttp://www.ra-info.org/resources/ra_cases.shtml
> * Extreme Abuse Surveyhttp://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
> *http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/
> *http://www.ra-info.org
> *http://www.survivorship.org
> *http://theawarenesscenter.org/ritualabuse.html
> * Ritual Abuse Statistics & Researchhttp://web.archive.org/web/20071210161357/http://home.mchsi.com/~ft io...
Thats alot like when gav abused my love tunnel with his strap-on.
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