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The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse

Cautions and Guides for Therapists
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Since the mid-1980s when sensational 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 requrie methods and guidelines for treating patients who present a history that may involve abusive satanic or sadistic rituals. In this text, experts in the field offer balanced, carefully considered advice on approaches therapists can use when patients or clients report they have experienced ritual abuse. These 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 programmes that have helped patients whether the reports of abuse were accurate, symbolic or false. Several illustrations depict the types of abuse that therapists will hear from these patients. For further guidance, an appendix containing the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustee's "Statement on Memories of Sexual Abuse" is also included.
Clinical Experience. A credulous skeptic's approach to cults and multiple personality disorder. Hypnosis and memory: a cautionary chapter. Overview of the treatment of patients alleging that they have suffered ritualized or sadistic abuse. Recognition and special treatment issues in patients reporting childhood sadistic ritual abuse. Satanic ritual abuse: first research and therapeutic implications. Ritual abuse: lessons learned as a therapist. Ritual abuse in European countries: a clinician's perspective. Special Techniques and Issues. Pharmacological guidelines for sadistically abused patients: from routine to critical issues. Visions of memories: a patient's visual representation of ritual abuse ceremonies. The court system and the problem of hypnotically recovered memories : a forensic psychiatrist's concerns. Teen involvement in the occult. Appendix: Statement on memories of sexual abuse. Index.
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