Description
Book SynopsisExperts in the field offer balanced, carefully considered advice on approaches therapists can use when patients report they have experienced ritual abuse. These qualified clinicians explain and demonstrate their techniques and offer caveats against accepting a patient's recollections at face value.
Trade Review[T]his is the book for which many mental health professionals have been waiting. . . . Inevitably, in an edited collection, there is some repetition but it was useful repetition in that it underscored that fact that experts in a wide variety of locations are fairly much in accord on the issues. . . . A great source book and a balanced appraisal of the subject.
* Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry *
The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse is a good portrayal of many of the clinical issues that arise in the treatment of people alleging ritual abuse histories. . . . [T]he book provides a good overview and it is useful to have all of this information pulled together in one volume.
* Bullentin of the Menninger Clinic *
The book is intended mainly for psychiatrists but is readable enough to hold interest for therapists of all disciplines, who will benefit greatly from the two sections that deal with clinical experience and special techniques, and with the need for thorough assessments in these cases.
* Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health *
Table of Contents 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.
