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Summary: Wild Imagination...Sad But True
Review: I have seen such overwhelming evidence to support the fact that almost all "ritual abuse" cases WERE indeed caused by mass hysteria and community pressure. So many individuals in these communities were forced not to appear "weak," and jumped on the neighborhood bandwagon to accuse, accuse, accuse.
Nothing is more horrifying than the thought of our children being in peril...but that fear sadly caused a lot of irreversible damage to many innocent people's lives in these cases. From the Salem Witch trials to the Senator McCarthy insanity to this mess, it seems that every so often the civilized world goes mad. We can learn from it...but not by reading this wrongheaded book.
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Summary: Helpful and Harmful
Review: I think this book can be both helpful and harmful. For me, in the long run, I can say it was helpful. It gave me information that helped me to make sense of unusual childhood trauma. However, the book's claims that there is a widespread conspiracy involving doctors and government officials who worship satan is both harmful and unfounded.
While it is possible that a few people may try to create the perception of a widespread conspiracy to disempower their victims, having therapists "validate" that as truth is wrong. It can set people astray from understanding the true nature of their trauma.
In general, satanic ritual abuse therapy leads people to become more dependant upon their therapists and less trusting of others. Any therapy that does that should be seen as not effective.
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Summary: Helpful and Harmful
Review: I think this book can be both helpful and harmful. For me, in the long run, I can say it was helpful. It gave me information that helped me to make sense of unusual childhood trauma. However, the book's claims that there is a widespread conspiracy involving doctors and government officials who worship satan is both harmful and unfounded.
While it is possible that a few people may try to create the perception of a widespread conspiracy to disempower their victims, having therapists "validate" that as truth is wrong. It can set people astray from understanding the true nature of their trauma.
In general, satanic ritual abuse therapy leads people to become more dependant upon their therapists and less trusting of others. Any therapy that does that should be seen as not effective.
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Summary: An Excellent Resource for Victims and Helpers!
Review: Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) has been debated and debotched for as long as people have been aware of its existence. There are those who say it can't be true and there are those who know it can. This book offers real, in-depth, and detailed examples of SRA and its reprocutions. Whether you're a victim, know someone who was a victim, or work with those who do, this book is worth it's price in gold! To list everything this book offers would take way too long. Here are some issues discussed: symptoms and characteristics of SRA victims, information on Satanism (including holidays and symbols), therapists' reactions, working with children who speak of SRA, dissociation and Multiple Personality Disorder, mind control, advanced clues, recovery groups, drugs, demons, fighting back and resources. In addition, this book includes many first-person accounts of their experience with this horrifying occurence (Can be very triggering for victims). This book will defintely give you the facts and the information you need to help understand what so many would rather deny. Highly recommended...one of the best on the topic. :vD
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Summary: Taken seriously in the '80s, but not anymore
Review: This book is a comically repellent/fascinating read (in a Weekly World News sort of way), but I have to rate it as poor because it is really trying to cash in on a hoax which damaged some peoples lives during the child abuse witch hunts of twenty years ago. Law enforcement of today doesn't take any of this seriously. The main consumers of these kind of scare stories are typically people who've led very sheltered lives and are attracted to stories of those who violate society's rules in a horrific way. Many of these types fantasize about "recovered memories" and books like this provided them with inspiration/corroboration for their tales of victimhood. A morbidly interesting record of a weird social phenomenon of a bygone era.
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Summary: Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse
Review: This is an interesting and helpful book, particularly for practioners who deal with patients who are somewhere along the line of dissociative disorders. I am a therapist and a survivor of ritual abuse and found many similarities in various ritual abuse themes in the book. I found it useful both to myself personally in dealing with my past and in dealing with patients who are starting to deal with similar issues or experiences.
I do not doubt ritual abuse can happen, now that I have come to believe and assimilate my own experiences. I can see why others doubt the evil of which some factors of mankind are capable. Survivors don't make this up...it is far too weird and far too painful to think about, never mind invent these atrocities for "fun".
I am glad that it is rare enough for people to question if such evil exists...I am sad that it is so common that people experience it, suffer from it and then need to defend their reality to others...sometimes even to themselves.
This book warns you about sections that may be "triggering" so one can intelligently exercise caution when reading it.
I would recommend this book to anyone who may treat trauma survivors (or to others who are getting back these unbelievable grotesque type memories), as their are many folks out there who may along their path through therapy and healing discover the unthinkable in their history or herstory.
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