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 | "...the Satan-chasers' incredible claims are distinguished by an utter lack of evidence, except for the rantings elicited from 'victims' by dubious psychotherapists and church counselors." Mark Sauer, movie review of "By Satan Possessed." |
Overview:
There is a growing belief among mental health professionals that belief in the existence of:
| Ritual Abuse (RA), |
| Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), |
| Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), and |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
This website was started up in 1995, at the time when beliefs in RA, SRA, MPD and DID started to decline after having captured the public's attention and acceptance since the early 1980s.
These four belief systems involve:
| Satanic Ritual Abuse is the psychological, sexual, and/or physical assault forced on an unwilling victim and committed by one or more Satanists according to a prescribed ritual, the primary aim of which is to fulfill the need to worship the Christian devil, Satan. Since the mid 1990s, belief in SRA has been in rapid decline, largely because of the complete lack of hard evidence that SRA has ever existed. |
| Ritual Abuse (RA) is similar to SRA, except that the perpetrators are not motivated by Satanic belief; they are following another religion. Although there is hard evidence of Christian Ritual Abuse (CRA) in the form of exorcisms involving physical assault and occasional homicide, other forms of ritual abuse appear to be very rare or non-existent. |
| Multiple Personality Disorder (now generally called Dissociative Identity Disorder) is a belief that a single person can be the host of two or more discrete alters or individual personalities. There is a grown belief that MPD and DID are iatrogenic disorders -- caused by the physician or therapist in conjunction with the client. It does not seem to exist in nature. |
| Recovered Memory Therapy is a form of counseling that rapidly declined across North American in the 1990s. It involves suggestive forms of therapy including hypnotism, guided imagery, dream analysis, etc. It appears to be an effective method of transferring the beliefs of the therapist to the client without either being aware of the process. The client often develops false memories of events that never happened. If the therapist is a enthusiastic supporter of SRA, then the client may well recovers memories of SRA; if the therapist believes that MPD/DID is widespread in society, then her/his clients may develop MPD/DID. And so with other belief systems such as abuse in former lifetimes, abuse onboard UFOs, ritual abuse within Masonic and similar men's organizations, etc. |
Belief in SRA, RA, RMT, MPD/DID has been in serious decline since 1995. We expect that, by the year 2010, they be generally recognized to have been a cruel hoaxes, harming tens of thousands of adult clients who were victimized by recovered memory therapy hurting thousands of children who were subjected to incompetent interview techniques, and triggering hundreds of suicides.
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