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Satan's Children

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This book encapsulates common belief on the behavior of multilple personalities and it adds in the beliefs of the American publics opinion on Satanism. The book, as a read not a study, is very interesting and holds the readers attention. But as a study into multiple personality disorder verges onto the unbelievable. I recommend it to those who enjoy a good tale in other's misery.

Do not fall for this now discredited book and theory. The whole notion of satanic ritual abuse that supposedly produced multiple personality disorder (now renamed dissociative identity disorder) has been debunked. There were no SRA cults, and there is no such thing as multiple personality disorder, unless someone is trained into it by a misguided form of therapy or books such as these. MPD is a subset of "recovered memories" and is just as pseudoscientific, based on the idea that people can completely forget (repress) years of severe childhood trauma and then remember them years later. On the contrary, the worse the abuse is, the more likely it is to be remembered all too well. Robert Mayer used hypnosis to "uncover" MPD and speak to "alters." Hypnosis is not the only way to create such confabulations, but it is one of the most effective ways to create false memories. Contrary to popular opinion, hypnosis does not probe into the subconscious to unearth forgotten memories -- it simply makes us more suggestible.

The case studies presented in this book are fascinating and compelling. The clients' accounts seemed genuine, and revealed evidence of a satanic underground in our society that we are in great denial about.

My only problem with this book is that after all he went through with his clients, and all he witnessed, that the author himself does not conclude that what his clients revealed was, in fact, real.

I have a difficult time understanding his skepticism in the face of what he witnessed. If he saw a plane crash, I sincerely doubt he would minimize its reality. He saw lives crash, and pretends not to be convinced. I don't get it, and am repelled by that kind of cynicism.