Ritual Abuse: Primary and Secondary Source Books

Below is a bibiography of primary and secondary source books about ritual abuse and mind control, including books about cults, the occult and new religious movements, and other non-mainstream belief systems, mind control, and unethical human experimentation.

Note that some of the primary sources are written by known perpetrators (e.g., psychiatrists involved in the CIA’s Project MK-ULTRA) or alleged perpetrators, others simply describe occult or Satanic practices that commonly involve rituals or specific ideologies (belief systems).

Ritual Abuse and Mind Control have a long history, and have been documented and described in artwork and drawings, poetry, memoirs and other first-hand accounts, in academic sources such as journal articles, in edited books and on websites.

More sources

• ritual abuse bilbiographies
• mind control bilbiographies
• cults
• all articles about cults, occult and new religious movements, and other non-mainstream belief systems
• convictions
• books about specific cases
• ritual abuse books
• mind control books
• human experimentation
• torture

Where to find the books

Some of these books are now available to read for free on the Internet Archive, some are also available on kindle or as eBooks.

• The Internet Archive allows you to read for free and search inside books if you setup an account, use Open Library to search the internet archive. This is especially useful for out of print, historic or older books.

Primary sources

Primary works by Satanists, Occultists and Cult Leaders

British occultist and Satanist Aleister Crowley was a prolific writer, with approximately sixty books to his credit. We have listed only those with sections that seem most apt to have served as source material for abusive rituals.
American Satanist Anton LaVey is founder of the Church of Satan.

Crowley, Aleister (1969). The confessions of Aleister Crowley: An autohagiography. Cape, London.
Other editions: 1970, Hill and Wang, NY, NY; and 1979, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, England and Boston, MA.

Crowley, Aleister (1973). Book 4: Magick. Edited, annotated, and introduced by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. Routledge and K. Paul, London, England.

Crowley, Aleister (1973). Magick without tears. Edited by Israel Regardie. Llewellyn, St. Paul, MN. Edited by Israel Regardie. with annotations by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. Duckworth, London, England.
Other editions: 1982, Falcon Press, Phoenix, AZ and 1983, Magick without tears: unexpurgated, commented (being the Oriflamme, volume VI, no. 3-4). Duckworth, London, England and Society Ordo Templi Orientis International, Nashville, TN.

Crowley, Aleister (1905/1973). The book of the law (technically called Liber al vel legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI) An Ixii sol in Aries March 21, 1973 e.v. Thelema Pub., Oceanside, CA. Available on The Internet Archive.

Crowley, Aleister (1974). Magical and philosophical commentaries on “The book of the law” Edited and annotated by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. 93 Publishing, Montreal, Canada and S. Weiser, York Beach, ME.

Crowley, Aleister (1974). The works of Aleister Crowley. Gordon Press, NY, NY.

Crowley, Aleister (1975). The law is for all: An extended commentary on “The book of the law.” Edited, with an introduction, by Israel Regardie. Llewellyn, St. Paul, MN.
Other editions: 1983, Falcon Press, Phoenix, AZ.

Crowley, Aleister (1976). Magick in theory and practice. Dove, NY, NY.

Crowley, Aleister (1983). The holy books of Thelema. S. Weiser, York Beach, ME.

LaVey, Anton Szandor (1969). The satanic bible. Avon, NY, NY.

LaVey, Anton Szandor (1971). The compleat witch; Or, what to do when virtue fails. Dodd, Mead, NY, NY.

LaVey, Anton Szandor (1972). The satanic rituals. Avon, NY, NY.

LaVey, Anton Szandor (1992). The devil’s notebook. Feral House, Portland, OR.

LaVey, Anton Szandor (1998). Satan speaks! Feral House, Venice, CA.

Manson, Charles and Charles, Emmons, Nuel (1986). Manson in his own words: As told to Neul Emmons. Grove Press, NY, NY. Available to read on The Internet Archive.

Primary works by William Sargent

British Army psychiatrist William Sargent was conducted government/military mind control research.

Sargant, William (1973). The mind possessed; A physiology of possession, mysticism, and faith healing Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA.

Sargant, William Walters (1967). The unquiet mind: the autobiography of a physician in psychological medicine. Heinemann, London, England and Little, Brown, Boston, MA.

Sargant, William Walters (1957). Battle for the mind; A physiology of conversion and brain-washing. Heinemann, London, England.
Other editions: 1975, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. and 1997, Malor Books, Cambridge, MA.

Sargant, William Walters (1946). An introduction to somatic methods of treatment in psychiatry. The Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA.

Sargant, William Walters and Slater, Eliot (1972). An introduction to physical methods of treatment in psychiatry. Science House, NY, NY.

Primary works by others

Hassan, S. (2022). Freedom of mind: Helping loved ones leave controlling people, cults, and beliefs. Freedom of Mind Press.
Note: An analysis of above-board cult induction, brainwashing, and exit counseling techniques. A very well known book aimed at survivors of abusive cults.
From the publisher: In the post 9-11 world, people are more susceptible than ever to charismatic figures who offer simple, black v. white, us v. them, good v. evil, formulaic solutions. The rise of the Internet; increasingly sophisticated knowledge about how to influence and manipulate others; and the growing vulnerabilities of people across the planet—make for a dangerous, potentially devastating combination. Steven Hassan’s book Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs provides the knowledge and awareness needed to help yourself and loved ones avoid or escape from such dangerous people and situations. This must-read volume is a significantly updated and revised edition of Hassan’s groundbreaking Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves. It provides an up-to-the-minute guide to the reality of ‘undue influence’—the preferred term for mind control—in the post 9-11 era.
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs exposes the techniques and methods that individuals, cults, and institutions of all types—religious, business, therapeutic, educational, governmental—use to undo a person’s capacity to think and act independently. Hassan details his groundbreaking approach, the Strategic Interactive Approach, which can be used to help a loved one. Step-by-step, Hassan shows you how to evaluate the situation, interact with dual identities, develop communication strategies using phone calls, letter writing and visits, understand and utilize cult beliefs and tactics, and use reality-testing and other techniques to promote freedom of mind. He emphasizes the value of meeting with trained consultants to be effectively guided and coached and also to plan and implement effective interventions.

Hunter, Edward (1956). Brainwashing: the Story of Men who defied it. Farrar. Straus and Cudahy, Nova York.
Free to read at https://archive.org/details/brainwashingstor00huntrich/

Hunter, Edward (1951). Brainwashing: the Story of Men who defied it. Straus and Cudahy, Nova York.
Free to read at https://archive.org/details/brainwashingstor00huntrich/
Note: Ground-breaking work on analysis of the psychological torture of the experiences of servicemen captured during the 1950s Korean War, which came to be known as “brainwashing”.

Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625/1969). Wits miserie and the worlds madnesse. In the series: The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 198. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Amsterdam: Da Capo Press, NY, NY.
Original title page reads: VVits miserie, and the VVorlds madneffe: Difcouering the Deuils Incarnat of this Age. London, Printed by Adam Iflip, and are to be sold by Cutbert Burby, at his shop by the Roiall-Exchange, 1596. S.T.C. no. 16677.
Also found in The complete works of Thomas Lodge (1580-1623?) on The Internet Archive. Multiple reprints, including a free download from https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06183.0001.001 – University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.

Meerloo, Joost A.M. (1956). The rape of the mind: The psychology of thought control, menticide, and brainwashing. World Publishing Company: Tulsa, OK.
Full book on The Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/the-rape-of-the-mind-the-psychology-of-thought-control-menticide-and-brainwashing-pdfdrive/
From the publisher: Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective “truth” on their victims’ minds. In “The Rape of the Mind” he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people’s minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized “rape of the mind.” He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The “Rape of the Mind” is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.
Contents: Part One: The Techniques of Individual Submission. 1. You Too Would Confess. 2. Pavlov’s Students as Circus Tamers. 3. Medication into Submission. 4. Why Do They Yield? The Psychodynamics of False Confession. Part Two: The Techniques of Mass Submission. 5. The Cold War against the Mind. 6. Totalitaria and its Dictatorship. 7. The Intrusion by Totalitarian Thinking. 8. Trial by Trial. 9. Fear as a Tool of Terror. Part Three: Unobtrusive Coercion. 10. The Child is Father to the Man. 11. Mental Contagion and Mass Delusion. 12. Technology Invades Our Minds. 13. Intrusion by the Administrative Mind. 14. The Turncoat in Each of Us. Part Four: In Search of Defenses. 15. Training Against Mental Torture. 16. Education for Discipline or Higher Morale. 17. From Old to New Courage. 18. Freedom – Our Mental Backbone.

Los Angeles County Commission for Women (1988). Ritual abuse: Definitions, glossary, the use of mind control. Available from: Ritual Abuse Task Force, 383 Hall of Administration, 500 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Note: Small, concise booklet, this definition and description has been frequently cited.

Works by doctors describing mind control brain implants

Note: Primary research by doctors including human experiments by brain surgeons focused on mind control using electrodes, electronic devices or other brain implants, also known as psychosurgery.

José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado in particular implanted electrodes into the brains of both people and animals, initially to control movements, and later emotions, such as fear or happiness, in the 1950s and 1960s.

Delgado, José Manuel Rodríguez (1962). Pharmacological analysis of central nervous action. Pergamon, Oxford, UK.

Delgado, José Manuel Rodríguez (1965). Evolution of physical control of the brain. American Museum of Natural History, NY, NY.

Delgado, J.M.R. (1966). Emotions. Self-Selection Psychology Textbook. W.C. Brown., Dubuque, IA.

Delgado, José Manuel Rodríguez (1969). Physical control of the mind: Toward a psychocivilized society. Harper and Row, NY, NY.

Delgado, J.M.R.; Obrador, S. and Martin-Rodriquez, J.G. (1973). Two-way radio communication with the brain in psychosurgical patients. In Laitinen, L.V. and Livingston (eds.). Surgical approaches in psychiatry Medical and Technical Publishing. Lancaster, England.

Delgado, J.M.R. (1977). Therapeutic programmed stimulation of the brain in man. In Sweet, W., Obrador, S., and Martin-Rodriguez, J.G. (eds.). Neurosurgical treatment in psychiatry, pain, and epilepsy. Univ. Park Press, Baltimore, MD, p.615-637.

Lilly, J.C. (1960). Injury and excitation of brain by electrical current. In Ramey, E.R. and O’Doherty, D.S. (eds). Electrical studies of the unanesthetized brain. Hoeber, NY, NY. p.96-105.

Miller, A. (2012). Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control. Karnac.
Also published by Routledge and available as an eBook. Preview in Google books. https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/healing-the-unimaginable-treating-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control/30026/
Note: This best-selling book is aimed at therapists and includes many accounts from survivors of ritual abuse, describing their torture-based mind control programming. A prior understanding of Dissociative Identity Disorders/Dissociative Identities (multiple personalities) is required first, e.g. Boon, S., Steele, K., & Van Der Hart, O. (2011). Coping with trauma-related dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists. Review: ‘In Healing the Unimaginable, Dr Alison Miller provides you with the information, tools, and reassurance that you need in order to treat this challenging population with confidence and skill. She demystifies the methods used by perpetrator groups to create programming and to ensure the victims’ belief in their abusers’ omnipotence. She breaks down this complicated topic into its manageable parts, and, most importantly, provides what therapists always really want in their training manuals: a step by step “how-to” guide. Dr Miller has been doing this work for many years, and it shows. This is the book we all have been waiting for. It shines a much needed, long overdue, and perfectly designed light on a form of abuse that has been protected by darkness for too long. – E. Sue Blume, LCSW, author of Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and its Aftereffects in Women.
Table of Contents: Preface by E. Sue Blume, Forward by Valerie Sinason, Introduction;
Chapter One: A therapist’s first experience with ritual abuse and mind control (with thanks to “Lorraine”, “Teresa”, “Tony”, and “Jennifer”);
Chapter Two: Ritual abuse and mind control: the definition evolves;
Chapter Three: The basics of therapy;
Chapter Four: Markers of mind control and ritual abuse;
Chapter Five: “Ritual” abuse: religious and creed-based abuses with contributions by: Old Lady: “The special child’s spiritual training”, Adriana Green: “The strangers’ house”;
Chapter Six: Military, political, and commercial uses of mind control with contributions by: Trish Fotheringham: “Mind control as I experienced it”, Jeannie Riseman: “A 40s system of programming”;
Chapter Seven: A reversed Kabbalah trainer speaks contributed by Stella Katz;
Chapter Eight: The programming: indoctrination, lies, and tricks;
Chapter Nine: Understanding and working with alters’ jobs and hierarchies with a contribution by: LisaBri: “When therapists make mistakes”;
Chapter Ten: Dealing with programming: alternative strategies with contributions by: Jeannie Riseman: “Programming: taking the wind out of its sails”, Robin Morgan: “Dismantling my inner structures”;
Chapter Eleven:“Stabilization” takes on a new meaning;
Chapter Twelve: “Maybe I made it up” with contributions by: LisaBri: “Honesty and denial”,Carol Rutz: “Validating my mind control memories”;
Chapter Thirteen: Boundaries and bonds: the therapeutic relationship with contributions by Stella Katz: “For Miranda”, LisaBri: “A survivor in therapy”;
Chapter Fourteen: Treating programmed pedophilia (with thanks to “Jennifer”);
Chapter Fifteen:The unimaginable;
Chapter Sixteen: Working with the traumatic memories;
Chapter Seventeen: Successful resolution: co-consciousness or integration with contributions by: Jen Callow: Part: “To integrate or not to integrate”, Jen Callow: Part: “Building inner community”, Stella Katz: “Reclaiming me”;
Chapter Eighteen: Ritual abuse and mind control treatment: greater than the sum of its parts; Appendix: Resources (books and websites), Appendix: Satanic calendar, References, Index.

Penfield, Wilder and Kristiansen, K. (1951). Epileptic seizure patterns. Thomas, Springfield, IL.

Penfield, Wilder and Jasper, Herbert H. (1954). Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain. Little, Brown, Boston, MA.
Free to read on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/epilepsyfunction0000penf

Penfield, Wilder and Rasmussen, T. (1957). The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function. Macmillan, NY, NY.

Penfield, Wilder (1958). The excitable eortex in eonscious man. Liverpool Univ. Press, Liverpool, England.

Penfield, Wilder and Roberts, L. (1959). Speech and brain mechanisms. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.

Penfield, Wilder (1975). The mystery of the mind. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.

Penfield, Wilder (1977). No man alone: A neurosurgeon’s life. Little, Brown, Boston, MA.

Works by MKUltra Psychiatrists and Doctors

Cameron, Ewen (1968). Psychotherapy in action. Grune and Stratton, Gillmor, NY, NY.
Free to read on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/psychotherapyina0000came.
Note: Ewen Cameron, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association, was one of the perpetrators of Project MK-ULTRA. This early book mostly describes his approaches to psychotherapy, although it does briefly refer to some of his abusive treatments such as “semi-sleep” induced by drugging with insulin, which he called “somnolent insulin treatment” (p.128) to “reorganize” the mind, later called “depatterning”, which is essentially destruction of the personality and brainwashing combined as an attempt at a psychiatric cure. Some of Cameron’s Canadian patients later received compensation for the harm they suffered.
The CIA’s Cold War era Project MKUltra involved abusive and unethical human experimentation, some of the psychiatrists involved also published academic research on mind control. Dr Ewen Cameron and George Estabrooks were perpetrator in Project MK-Ultra.

Cameron, Ewen (1968). Psychotherapy in action. Grune and Stratton, Gillmor, NY, NY.
Free to read on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/psychotherapyina0000came.
Note: Ewen Cameron, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association, was one of the perpetrators of Project MK-ULTRA. This early book mostly describes his approaches to psychotherapy, although it does briefly refer to some of his abusive treatments such as “semi-sleep” induced by drugging with insulin, which he called “somnolent insulin treatment”(p.128) to “reorganize” the mind, later called “depatterning”, which is essentially destruction of the personality and brainwashing combined as an attempt at a psychiatric cure. Some of Cameron’s Canadian patients later received compensation for the harm they suffered.

Estabrooks, George (1943 / 1957). Hypnotism. Dutton, NY, NY.
Note: The 1943 edition has accounts of personal experiments and anecdotes of effects of hypnosis. Mentions work done with the War Department, including the possibility of creating programmed couriers and assassins. See especially the chapters on hypnosis in warfare and crime.

Estabrooks, George H. and Gross, Nancy E. (1961). The future of the human mind. Dutton, NY, NY.
Note: Contains material on parapsychology and extrasensory perception.

Secondary sources

Andres, R. and Lane, J. R. (1988). Cults and consequences: The definitive handbook. Commission on Cults and Missionaries, Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. https://archive.org/details/cultsconsequence0000unse_w2d3

Appel, W. (1983). Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, NY.
Note: Recruitment methods, indoctrination, brainwashing, and exit counseling from above-board modern American cults.

Bainbridge, William S. (2025). Lucifer’s Power: Beliefs and Practices of the Process Cult. Feral House.
Previous edition: Satan’s Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult (1978), Univ. of CA Press. Note: About The Process (called “the Power” by Bainbridge.) The Process, an English sect/cult, was incorporated in the US in January 1968. This book contains chapters describing Charles Manson’s link to the Process.

Barton, B. (1990). The secret life of a satanist: The authorized biography of Anton LaVey. Feral House, Los Angeles, CA.

Barton, B. (1990). The church of satan: A history of the world’s most notorious religion. Hell’s Kitchen Productions, NY. NY.
Note: Approved by the Church of Satan. of Anton LaVey. Feral House: Los Angeles, CA.

Baskin, Wade (1971). Dictionary of satanism. Philosophical Library, NY, NY.
Note: A dictionary of magic and satanic terms.

Blood, Linda Osborne (1994). The new satanists. Warner, NY, NY.
Note: Contains information about the history of Satanism, details of documented ritual abuse cases, and information about current Satanic groups and organizations. Also documents the arrest and investigation of Lt. Col. Aquino for his alleged rape and occult ritual abuse of children who attended the Army day-care center in Presidio, CA. There are descriptions of similar investigations into alleged ritual abuse at other military day-care centers.

Bowart, Walter H. (1994). Operation mind control. Researcher’s Guide. Flatlands Editions.
Other editions: 1978, Operation Mind Control by Dell Publishing Company. Read the revised Researcher’s Guide for free on The Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/OperationMindControlResearchersEdition/

Burnett-Rae, Alan (1971). Aleister Crowley: a memoir of 666. Edited by Victor Hall; with four poems by Aleister Crowley. Vision Press, London, England.

Cavendish, R. (1967). The black arts. Wideview/Perigree, NY, NY.
Note: A readable and complete scholarly history of numerology, the Cabala, alchemy, and satanism, with a clear explanation of satanic theology.

Cerullo, Morris (1973). The back side of satan. Creation House, Carol Stream, IL.
Note: Satanism and witchcraft in the United States.

Cervantes, Fernando (1994). The devil in the New World: The impact of diabolism in New Spain. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT.
Note: History of satanism in Mexico.

Cheit, Ross E. (2014). The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children. Oxford University Press.
Preview at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26137345M/The_WitchHunt_Narrative. Other editions: 2016, Oxford University Press.
Note: Contains information drawn directly from court transcripts of many high profile court cases involving ritual abuse including the McMartin daycare ritual abuse case, plus information on the accuracy of the popular press book Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (Nathan & Snedeker), and about the religioustolerance.org website. Written by lawyer Ross E. Cheit, a survivor of child sexual abuse and founder of the Recovered Memory Project at Brown University.

Cohn, N. (1993). Europe’s inner demons: The demonization of Christians in medieval Christendom. Pimlico, London, England.

Cooper, John Charles (1990). The black mask: Satanism in America today. F.H. Revell, Old Tappan, NJ.

Daraul, Arkon (1962). A History of Secret Societies. Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ.

De Young, M. (2002). The ritual abuse controversy : an annotated bibliography. McFarland & company, Inc.
By sociologist Mary De Young. Free to read at The Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ritualabusecontr0000deyo/page/n5/mode/1up

De Young, M. (2004). The day care ritual abuse moral panic. McFarland & company, Inc.
By sociologist Mary De Young.
From the publisher: This work is a sociologically based analysis of the day care ritual abuse panic in America. It introduces the concept of moral panic and analyzes its relevance to the ritual abuse scare, explores the ideological, political, economic, and professional forces that fomented the panic, discusses the McMartin Preschool case as the incident that brought attention to satanic menaces and children, and examines the dialect between the various interest groups that stirred up and spread the moral panic and the day care providers accused of ritual abuse. Also covered are the popular culture representations of day care ritual abuse, the diffusion of the scare to areas overseas, the institutionally symbolic and ideologically contradictory social ends of the panic, and the outcomes of the panic in various settings. The book ends with a discussion of moral panic theory and how it needs to be changed for a complex, multi-mediated postmodern culture, and what lessons can be learned from the scare. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-day-care-ritual-abuse-moral-panic/

French, Joel (1991). The secret diary of a satan worshipper New Leaf Press, Green Forest, AZ.
Note: Christian autobiography

Epstein, O. B., Schwartz, J., & Schwartz, R.W. (Eds.). (2011). Ritual abuse and mind control: The manipulation of attachment needs. Routledge.
Other editions: 2014, Karnac books. Free to download from The Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/bowlby-centre-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control
Contents: Introduction; Chapter One: What has changed in twenty years?; Chapter Two: An evil cradling? Cult practices and the manipulation of attachment needs in ritual abuse; Chapter Three: Torture-based mind control: psychological mechanisms and psychotherapeutic approaches to overcoming mind control; Chapter Four: Love is my religion; Chapter Five: Working with the Incredible Hulk; Chapter Six: Maintaining agency: a therapist’s journey.
Note: Primarily aimed at therapists working with ritual abuse survivors, includes a case study of a ritual abuse survivor with dissociative identity disorder.

Galanter, Marc (1989). Cults: Faith, healing and coercion. Oxford Univ. NY, NY.

Galanter, Marc (Ed.) (1989). Cults and new religious movements. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC.
Note: Examination of the spectrum of religious movements. Does not include Satanism.

Grant, Kenneth (1973). Aleister Crowley and the hidden god. Muller, London, England.

Johnston, J. (1989). The edge of evil: The rise of satanism in North America. Word Publishing, Dallas, TX.

Katchen, Martin H. (1992). Satanic beliefs and practices. In Sakheim, David K. and Devine, Susan (eds.). Out of darkness: Exploring satanism and ritual abuse, p.21-43. Lexington Books/Macmillan, NY, NY.
Preview: https://archive.org/details/outofdarknessexp0000sakh/page/n10/mode/1up?q=Katchen
Note: A book chapter. From the introduction “Provides some insight into the significance that these groups (i.e., satanic groups) attribute to rituals, symbols, objects, numbers, and dates”.

King, Francis (1977). The magical world of Aleister Crowley. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, NY. NY.
Other editions include 1977, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: London. England.

Lewis, James R. (2001). Satanism today: An encyclopedia of religion, folklore, and popular culture. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.

Lacter, Ellen P. (2018). Mind control: simple to complex. In Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder (pp. 185-195). Routledge.
Also see Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder. A similar but shorter article including proposed types of mind control including within ritual abuse can be found on the Mind Control: Simple to Complex page.

Lockwood, Craig (1993). Other alters: Roots and realities of cultic and satanic ritual abuse and multiple personality disorder, Compcare Publications, Minneapolis, MN.

Masello, Robert (1996). Raising hell: A concise history of the black arts – and those who dared to practice them. Berkley Pub. Group, NY, NY.

Masters, Anthony (1978). The devil’s dominion: The complete story of hell and satanism in the modern world. Putnam, NY, NY.

Medway, Gareth J. (2001). Lure of the sinister: The unnatural history of satanism. NY Univ. Press, NY, NY.

Melton, J. Gordon (ed) (1994). The encyclopedia of American religions, religious creeds: A compilation of more than 450 creeds, confessions, statements of faith, and summaries of doctrine of religious and spiritual groups in the United States and Canada. Gale Research Co., Detroit, MI.
First edition in 1988. Read to free on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam0000unse_g9h6/page/n7/mode/1up.

Melton, J. Gordon (1992). Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America. Garland, NY, NY and London, England.

Melton, J. Gordon (ed.) (1990). Rosicrucianism in America. Garland, NY, NY.
Contents: The grand secret, or, Physical love in health and disease / Paschal B. Randolph – The book of the triplicate order / Paschal B. Randolph – The master key of love and the psychology of human behaviour / Harry O. Saxon – Rosicrucian symbology / KHEI – Regeneration / F.B. Dowd – Rosikrucianism / Sergius Rosenkruz.

Michelet, Jules (1992). Satanism and witchcraft: The classic study of medieval superstition. Translated from the French by Allinson, A.R. Carol Pub., NY, NY.
Note: History of witchcraft and satanism in Europe to 1500.

Minnery, Tom (ed.) (1986). Pornography: A human tragedy: With excerpts from the surgeon general’s report and attorney general’s commission. Tyndale House, Wheaton, IL.

Nevius, John Livingston (1968). Demon possession, 8th ed. Pref. by Merrill F. Unger. Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI.
Note: First edition published in 1895 under the title: Demon possession and allied themes. F. H. Revell, Chicago, IL.

Newton, M. (1993). Raising hell: An encyclopedia of devil worship and satanic crime. Avon Books, NY, NY.
Note: Short, accurate entries on a variety of subjects. Extensive bibliography, but entries are not referenced.

Newton, Toyne; Walker, Charles and Brown, Alan (1987). The demonic connection: An investigation into satanism in England and the international black magic conspiracy. Poole, NY, NY, also Blandford Press, NY, NY.

Newton, Toyne (2002). The dark worship. Vega, London, England.
From the publisher: A historian of the occult sheds new light on the influence of groups such as the Gnostics, Sufis, Assassins, Druids, Templars, and other secret societies whose members have included British and French royalty and leaders in modern American governments. Little-known groups such as the Black Sorcerers, Friends of Hekate, and Zoroastrian Priesthood receive their notorious due, with photos of worship sites, ritual objects, and hidden documents.

Noblitt, Randall and Perskin, Pamela (2014). Cult and ritual abuse: Its history, anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America. Praeger Publishing, Westport. CT.
Preview: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16980327M/Cult_and_ritual_abuse. Other editions: 1995, 2000.From the publisher: This personal yet scholarly journey into the confusing and clandestine world of ritual abuse survivors sheds light on their catastrophic experiences and their efforts to heal afterward.
Revised, updated, and expanded, this third edition of a classic study is one of the most authoritative and evenhanded volumes to tackle its hotly debated subject matter. Incorporating the authors’ firsthand observations, the book provides historical, anthropological, and psychological context for contemporary reports of both ritual abuse and ritual crime.
In addition to sharing patient vignettes and a history of cult and ritual abuse in society, the authors explore fascinating topics related to these practices, among them what triggers personality shifts for victims even many years after the abuse has stopped. Importantly, the book shows how ritual abuse affects society as a whole, influencing civil and criminal law, politics, legislation, social movements, social welfare, and psychological theory. It provides unique insights into the scientific study, forensic investigation, and implementation of social services for survivors of cult and ritual abuse, discusses new research and treatment strategies, and establishes the foundation for a psychological diagnosis to be called Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments, Introduction
Chapter 1 The Church in Thetford Forest
Chapter 2 On the Borderline
Chapter 3 Entering Uncharted Territory
Chapter 4 Multiple Personalities
Chapter 5 Possession, Ritual Abuse, and Dissociation
Chapter 6 Empirical and Forensic Evidence of Ritual Abuse
Chapter 7 Breaking the Code
Chapter 8 The African Connection
Chapter 9 Other Cultures
Chapter 10 1990: The Year of the Awakening
Chapter 11 Investigating Western Occultism
Chapter 12 An Introduction to Wicca
Chapter 13 Satanism?
Chapter 14 Nihilists and Revisionists
Chapter 15 The Politics of Psychotherapy
Chapter 16 The Media
Chapter 17 Will “the System” Protect Them?
Chapter 18 Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder
Chapter 19 Where Do We Go from Here?
Appendix A Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder: A Proposed Diagnosis in DSM Format
Appendix B Letter from the FBI, January 18, 1993
Notes, References, Name Index, Subject Index, About the Authors.

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Other editons: BLUEBIRD Other editions: The Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality Disorder by American Psychiatrists.
From the publisher: Dr. Ross provides proof, based on 15,000 pages of documents obtained from the C.I.A. through the Freedom of Information Act, that there have been pervasive, systematic violations of human rights by American psychiatrists over the last 65 years. As well, he proves that the Manchurian Candidate “super spy” is fact, not fiction. He describes the experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new identities, hypnotic access codes, and new memories in the minds of experimental subjects. The funding of the experiments by the C.I.A., Army, Navy and Air Force is proven by the C.I.A. documents and the doctors’ own publications. The C.I.A. Doctors proves that there were extensive violations of human rights by psychiatrists in North America throughout the second half of the twentieth century, perpetrated not by a few renegade doctors, but by leading psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacologists, neurosurgeons and medical schools.Note: By psychiatrist Colin Ross, who was briefly a member of the Scientific Board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and specialises in treating complex trauma including in people with Dissociative Identity Disorder. The CIA Doctors is an extensive account of research by the doctors who worked on the CIA’s Project MKUltra military mind control programme, many of which were also board members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation before it was dissolved. The account includes detailed verifiable references from existing published academic research by MKUltra doctors and from the Freedom of Information Act files on Project MKUltra. Read for free on the Internet Archive, also available as an eBook/on kindle. https://archive.org/details/ciadoctorshumanr0000ross

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Sachs, Ada and Galton, Graeme (Eds) (2018). Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Routledge.
Other editions: 2007, Routledge.
Contents: Chapter Introduction by Adah Sachs; Chapter One Satanist ritual abuse and the problem of credibility by Joan Coleman; Chapter Two Unsolved: investigating allegations of ritual abuse by Chris Healey; Chapter Three The Extreme Abuse Surveys: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder by Thorsten Becker, Wanda Karriker, Bettina Overkamp, Carol Rutz; Chapter Four The protectors of the secrets by “Aahbee”; Chapter Five Am I safe yet? by Sue Cross, “Louise”; Chapter Six Dissociative identity disorder and criminal responsibility by James Farmer, Warwick Middleton, John Devereux; Chapter Seven When Murder Moves Inside by Valerie Sinason; Chapter Eight When the Imaginary Becomes the Real: reflections of a bemused psychoanalyst by Phil Mollon; Chapter Nine Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient by Graeme Galton; Chapter Ten Infanticidal attachment: the link between dissociative identity disorder and crime by Adah Sachs; Chapter Eleven Letter from a general practitioner by Alison Anderson; Chapter Twelve Corroboration in the body tissues by John Silverstone; Chapter Thirteen Opening Pandora’s box by Sue Cook; Chapter Fourteen From social conditioning to mind control by Valerie Sinason; Chapter Fifteen Mind control: simple to complex by Ellen P. Lacter. Preview: https://books.google.com/books/about/Forensic_Aspects_of_Dissociative_Identit.html?id=XnlTDwAAQBAJ

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From the publisher: Cults today are bigger than ever, with broad ramifications for national and international terrorism. In this newly revised edition of her definitive work on cults, Singer reveals what cults really are and how they work, focusing specifically on the coercive persuasion techniques of charismatic leaders seeking money and power. The book contains fascinating updates on Heaven’s Gate, Falun Gong, Aum Shinrikyo, Hare Krishna, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and the connection between cults and terrorism in Al Queda and the PLO.

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Comments: Preface, Part I – Torture and seduction: 1 The birth of a word, 2 God or the group? 3 The power of persuasion, 4 Hoping to heal, 5 ‘I suggest, you persuade, he brainwashes’, 6 Brainwashing and influence, Part II – The traitor in your skull: 7 Our ever-changing brains, 8 Webs and new worlds, 9 Swept away, 10 The power of stop-and-think, 11 That freedom thing, Part III – Freedom and control: 12 Victims and predators, 13 Mind factories, 14 Science and nightmare, 15 Taking a stand, End Matter, Notes, Glossary.

Thomas, A. and Graham-Hyde, E. (eds.) (2024). ‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Preview on Google books.
Table of Contents – Foreword: Introduction to the ‘Religion at the Boundaries’ Series – Suzanne Newcombe and Sarah Harvey – Part I: Approaches to ‘Cult’ Rhetoric – Chapter 1: ‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century: The Disconnect Between Popular Discourse and the Ivory Tower, Aled Thomas and Edward Graham-Hyde – Chapter 2: Balancing Pragmatism and Precision: Inform’s Approach to Cult Rhetoric, Suzanne Newcombe and Sarah Harvey – Chapter 3: A History of Anti-Cult Rhetoric, George D. Chryssides – Chapter 4: The Paradigm Shift from Sacred to Profane, William Sims Bainbridge – Chapter 5: The Dangerous Cult Exercise: Popular Culture and the Ongoing Construction of the New Religious Threat, Douglas E. Cowan – Chapter 6: The Recognition of Cults, Roderick P. Dubrow-Marshall – Part II: Contemporary ‘Cultic’ Issues – Chapter 7: The Light of the World: La Luz del Mundo, Liminality, and NRM Studies, Donald A. Westbrook – Chapter 8: Cults of Conspiracy and the (On-Going) Satanic Panic, Bethan Juliet Oake – Chapter 9: ‘There is no QAnon’: Cult Accusations in Contemporary American Political and Online Discourse, Susannah Crockford – Chapter 10: Playing at Religion: Understanding Contemporary Spiritual Experiences in Popular Culture, Vivian Asimos – Chapter 11: Attempting to Educate Journalists about the Role of Cult Essentialism in the Branch Davidian-Federal Agents Conflict, Catherine Wessinger – Afterword: Critical Reflections and Conclusions, W. Michael Ashcraft – Bibliography – Index.

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Free to read on Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21258
Contents: Satanism in the nineteenth century – The mask of masonry – The first witnesses of Lucifer – Ex ore leonis – The discovery M. Ricoux – Art sacerdotal – The devil and the doctor – Dealings with Diana – How Lucifer is unmasked – The vendetta of Signor Margiotta – Female freemasonry – The passing of Doctor Bataille – Diana unveiled – The radix of modern diabolism – Diana Vaughan and the question of modern Palladism – The conspiracy in outline – The railleries of Dr. Bataille – The Margiotta embroilment – The Trent Congress and Diana Vaughan – The secret doctrine of Albert Pike – Women and freemasonry – Who is Diana Vaughan? – Some consequences of the conspiracy.

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