" As our medical schools and graduate programs fill with students who were born after 1989, we meet

young mental health professionals-in-training who have no knowledge or living memory of the

Satanic ritual abuse (SRA) moral panic of the 1980s and early 1990s. To those of us who are old

enough to have been there, that era already seems like a curious relic of the past, bracketed in our

memory palaces behind a door we are loathe to open again. "

https://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Psychiatric_Times_-When_Psychiatry_Battled_the_Devil-_2013-12-06.pdf

7 pages, 2013

"Just 25 years ago, American psychiatry was infected by a psychic pandemic that originated outside

the profession. In 1983 it broke out of a reservoir of religious, legal, psychotherapeutic, and mass

media mixing bowls. Children in US day care centers and adults in psychotherapy told 2 distinct

versions of their malady. By 1988 some elite members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)

were making it worse. They had become its vectors. Then other elite psychiatrists stepped in to

quarantine the profession. Eventually, just like the last wave of the influenza pandemic, after 1994 it

ended as suddenly and incomprehensibly as it had started."

https://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Psychiatric_Times_-When_Psychiatry_Battled_the_Devil-_2013-12-06.pdf

"As our medical schools and graduate programs fill with students who were born after 1989, we meet

young mental health professionals-in-training who have no knowledge or living memory of the

Satanic ritual abuse (SRA) moral panic of the 1980s and early 1990s. But perhaps they should.

Cautionary tales may prevent the recurrence of pyrogenic cultural fantasies and the devastating

clinical mistakes they inspire.

But who should tell this tale? To those of us who are old enough to have been there, that era already

seems like a curious relic of the past, bracketed in our memory palaces behind a door we are loathe

to open again.

In the 1980s thousands of patients insisted that they were recovering childhood memories of

physical and sexual abuse during Satanic cult rituals. In addition to the red or black robes of the

abusers and other paraphernalia of devil worship familiar to any horror film devotee, these memories

often included the ritual sacrificial murder of children, blood-drinking, cannibalism, bestiality, and

incest. Famous believers in SRA ranged from Gloria Steinem to Pat Robertson. A prominent historian

of religion has argued that “the emergence of SRA motifs” served as “a kind of feminist and

evangelical Christian pornography.”2"

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"A few months later, in March 1989, this conference paper was published in Kluft and Braun’s journal,

Dissociation.

10 It quickly became a citation success in the SRA literature as evidence in favor of the

historical continuity of Satanic cults and their rituals.9(p393),19 (p177) The message to the public and the

mental health professions was clear: elite members of the American psychiatric profession seemed

to be sanctioning the SRA moral panic. Satanic cults were probably real, had probably been around

for almost 2 millennia, and were abusing children and creating the MPD epidemic."

https://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Psychiatric_Times_-When_Psychiatry_Battled_the_Devil-_2013-12-06.pdf

" Along with my fellow panelists, I too

mentioned the October 1989 preliminary report of an investigation by Supervisory Special Agent Ken

Lanning from the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico which found no corroborating evidence of

the existence of Satanic cults engaged in any criminal activity, let alone kidnapping and ritually

sacrificing thousands of American babies. Lanning’s findings had emboldened Putnam to organize

the special plenary session and go public with his private skepticism. The full FBI report appeared 3 years later."

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"In 1991 Putnam and Ganaway continued to distance themselves from SRA.19,20 Braun and others who

shared his beliefs continued to exploit the medical literature to bolster the construct validity of

SRA.21 Kluft continued his editorship of Dissociation. In the years that followed, the pages of

Dissociation kept possession and exorcism alive as relevant psychiatric issues in diagnosis and

treatment.22 Psychiatry could not abandon its jurisdictional claim on the supernatural.

New APA work groups for the preparation of DSM-IV were formed. Not surprisingly, none of the

former members of the DSM-III-R Advisory Committee on Dissociate Disorders was invited to be on

the work group for the dissociative disorders. When the new diagnostic manual finally appeared in

1994, MPD had vanished. Renamed and revised as dissociative identity disorder (DID), it also had

been dethroned from first place in the sequence of dissociative disorders. “I don’t want it to be seen

as some sort of circus sideshow,” said the chair of the new DSM-IV work group.23(p19) DSM-IV

reinstated the order of DSM-III. The new guards at the APA were doing their best to quarantine the

profession from not only the men who had enabled the MPD epidemic but also from any lingering

connection to the moral panic."

https://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Psychiatric_Times_-When_Psychiatry_Battled_the_Devil-_2013-12-06.pdf

It's been a while since I stopped watching utubbers.

Be careful predictions, rumors, lying shills..