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This book is aimed at the alleviation of a particular form of human misery, namely, the group terrorization, physical and sexual abuse—“soul murder,” if you will (Shengold, 1989)—of children. What it describes is dreadful, appalling, and shameful.
Thirty-eight contributors, members of important psychiatric, psychoanalytic, and psychological establishments in Great Britain, professionals working in the fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and mental health management, provide essential background information and a wealth of practical advice for those working in the field treating the survivors of ritual, group (Satanist) abuse. It is not a book for the faint-hearted, for what it describes is group sadistic pedophilia (whether obligatory or nonobligatory is unknown), whose aim is to produce sexual excitement and orgasm, a sense of power, and a control over young victims through the infliction of bodily harm and indoctrination techniques.
The practitioners of these group sexual perversions cloak themselves in occultism in order to terrify their victims: they make them drink blood and urine, force them to eat feces and insects, or