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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 near consensus among mental health professionals that memories of
past: existence of:
| Ritual Abuse (RA), and |
| Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), |
are mainly derived from false memories which, in turn, are generally generated by suggestive Recovered Memory Therapy (RMT) techniques, whether administered by a therapist, a mutual support group, or by oneself. They are unrelated to real events from the past.
Further, there is a near consensus that
| Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), and |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
do not occur naturally, but are iatrogenic -- created by an interaction of client and therapist -- without either being aware of the process,
This website was started up in 1995, at a time when beliefs in RA, SRA, MPD and DID had just started to decline after having captured the public's attention and acceptance since the early 1980s. There were two main reasons for their decline:
| The complete absence of hard evidence for their existence, and |
| Increasing knowledge about the nature of human memory. |
These four belief systems involve:
| Satanic Ritual Abuse is psychological, sexual, spiritual, 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. |
We expect that by the year 2010, SRA, RA, RMT, and MPD/DID will be be generally recognized to have been a cruel hoaxes that:
| Harmed tens
of thousands of adult clients who were victimized by recovered memory therapy |
| Harmed hundreds of thousands of individuals in these client's family of
origin. |
| Hurting many thousands of children who were subjected to incompetent
interview techniques about MVMO (multi-victim, multi-offender) abuse in day
cares, Sunday schools, etc., and |
| Triggering hundreds or thousands of suicides which otherwise would not have happened |
It is important to study these past tragedies in order to prevent the public from experiencing similar tragedies in the future.
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