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General Information About Ritual Abuse

Ritual Abuse Definition

Ritual abuse can be defined as organised sexual, physical, and psychological abuse, which can be systematic and sustained over a long period of time. It involves the use of rituals, with or without a belief system. It usually involves more than one person as abusers. Ritual abuse usually starts in early childhood and involves using patterns of learning and development to sustain the abuse and silence the abused. read more

Evidence of Ritual Abuse

People are always demanding evidence of the existence of ritual abuse so that they can believe more readily that it happens or deny its existence more rigorously. Unfortunately, the abusers do not usually proof lying about for others to find. They do not want the world to know what they are doing and therefore do their best to carefully dispose of evidence. read more

Beliefs, Myths & Facts about Ritual Abuse

There are a wide range of beliefs and myths regarding ritualised abuse and the survivors of it. If people could only keep a more open mind rather than simply believing what they read in the press or have heard on the grapevine, we might eventually arrive at the more factual information. If we close our minds and dismiss accounts of survivors of anything, we will never know the truth. Even if it turns out that only one person in the world has experienced ritual abuse, in any of its forms, we need to know about it. read more

Beliefs, Myths & Facts about Survivors of Ritual Abuse

One of the most important things to understand about any survivor of any kind of abuse is that generalisation is not useful. People are individuals with individual responses. It is better to get to know individuals rather than swallowing the many myths that abound. read more

Why Don't Ritual Abuse Survivors Tell?

Ritual Abuse survivors are taught from an early age that no one will believe them. The fact that this tends to be true re-enforces this. read more

What are the Rituals?

It is useful to know what people mean when they use the word ritual in the context of ritual abuse. read more

Why is it so hard to believe or accept?

It is hard for ordinary people to believe that ritual abuse happens. It is easier to deny that it does. Unfortunately, that denial of it doesn't make it go away. read more

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