Research Catalog

Title

Cult and ritual abuse : its history, anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America / James Randall Noblitt and Pamela Sue Perskin.

Author

Noblitt, James Randall.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Perskin, Pamela Sue.

Description

xvi, 225 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Ritual abuse > United States
• Occult crime > United States
• Ritual abuse victims > United States
• Multiple personality > United States
• Multiple personality
• Mental illness
• Occultism
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Mental Disorders
• Occultism
• mental disorders
• occultism
• occult sciences
• Mental illness
• Multiple personality
• Occult crime
• Ritual abuse
• Ritual abuse victims
• Kult
• Missbrauch
• Ritual
• Kriminalität
• Okkultismus
• Multiple Persönlichkeit
• Ritus
• Sectes > États-Unis
• Personnalité multiple > États-Unis
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-219) and index.

Contents

1. The Church in Thetford Forest -- 2. On the Borderline -- 3. Entering Uncharted Territory -- 4. Multiple Personalities -- 5. Possession, Ritual Abuse, and Dissociation -- 6. Breaking the Code -- 7. The African Connection -- 8. Other Cultures -- 9. 1990: The Year of the Awakening -- 10. Investigating Western Occultism -- 11. An Introduction to Wicca -- 12. Satanism? -- 13. The Politics of Psychotherapy -- 14. The Media -- 15. Will "The System" Protect Them? -- 16. Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder -- 17. Nihilists and Revisionists -- Appendix A: Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder: A Proposed Diagnosis in DSM Format -- Appendix B: What is the Society for the Investigation, Treatment and Prevention of Ritual and Cult Abuse?

ISBN

• 0275952819
• 9780275952815

LCCN

95002492

OCLC

• ocm32085287
• 32085287
• SCSB-2096543

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library