Ritual abuse, perpetrated by secretive cults within groups as diverse as Christian sects, Satanic worshipers, and even day-care providers, often involves the drugging, torture, rape, and exposure of children to animal or human sacrifice. Smith's courageous work offers clear insights and hard facts about this most underestimated form of child abuse.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the best books about ritual abuse,
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This review is from: Ritual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help (Paperback)
There are many books today about ritual abuse. Some of them are wrtten by armchair sceptics, who, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, dismiss the whole subject as a "modern myth". Others are written by professionals who believe in the existence of ritual abuse but indeed write from a very distanced and academic point of view. This kind of books can of course be quite useful for researchers. But I think that the best boks about ritual abuse is written by survivors. This is one of these books. It is well written and pedagogic. I think it is a great recource for survivors, and to those who want to support them.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A hard read, but one that is imbued with hopefulness.,
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This review is from: Ritual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help (Paperback)
Of the books currently available on ritual abuse, Margaret Smith's is the clearest and cleanest. She shares information in a factual way without glossing over the experiences of survivors. This is a hard read, but one that is imbued with hopefulness, and belief in survivability. Anyone who seeks to understand the nature of good and evil should read this book, and work honestly with the reactions that will unavoidably come up.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Truthful,
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This review is from: Ritual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help (Paperback)
I read this book with great sadness and hope. Almost all of what is described in this book has happened to me over a period of 18 years. I no longer felt quite so alone. It was a very difficult book to read, but it helped me educate psychology students in a nearby college about ritual abuse and MPD, which I was diagnosed with over a decade ago. Anyone who is a skeptic of ritual abuse should read this book. Ms. Smith starts with a reasonable arguement based with facts that ritual abuse does indeed exist. I also applaud the fact that this book was published in a cover that appeared non-threatening. (It's in soft pastel colors, unlike the red, black and white colors of the covers of some other books on ritual abuse.) Thank you Ms. Smith for your sensitivity and frankness. I hope this book will be on the published list once again.
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