Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of these books contain laundry lists of symptoms of repressed-memory victims. They inform their readers that even though they have no memory of the acts, they may have been victims of childhood sexual or ritual abuse if they experience some of the following conditions: depression, anxiety, loss of appetite or eating disorders, sexual problems and difficulty with intimacy. The all-inclusive nature of that list, critics say, suggests that among the entire U.S. population, only the rare individual has managed to escape childhood sexual abuse. That doesn't seem to surprise therapist E. Sue Blume. In her book...
Almost any night, in any major American city, adult incest and ritual-abuse survivor meetings are held in church basements and community rooms. Churches and other institutions also offer counseling for dissociative disorders and satanic-ritual-abuse victims...
...some of the recovered memories of familial childhood abuse sound fanciful, the recollections of satanic-ritual abuse are downright bizarre. These tales have proliferated since the publication in 1980 of Michelle Remembers, a book about a belatedly aware satanic-ritual victim. They describe a massive secret conspiracy to abuse children sexually in order to brainwash them into worshipping Satan. Victims recall being raped by their parents and then by members of a cult who drink blood and sacrifice fetuses. More often than not the abusers are pillars of their communities -- the mayor, police chief or school superintendent -- who come...
...could such satanic rituals be that commonplace, let alone exist at all? In 1990, a group of researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo conducted a nationwide sample of clinical psychologists, asking them if they had encountered claims of ritual abuse. Some 800 of the psychologists, about a third of the sample, had treated at least one case...
...says, "there should be bodies in all our backyards." Still, incest-survivor groups are inundated with these claims. Monarch Resources, a California referral service for survivors, is said to receive more than 5,000 calls annually from people who believe they have been victims of satanic abuse. Alleged ritual abuse is also involved in about 16% of the calls to Philadelphia's False Memory Syndrome Foundation...