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- Title
Satanism and Psychopathology: Some Historical Cases.
- Authors
ANDRADE, GABRIEL; REDONDO, MARIA SUSANA CAMPO
- Abstract
Satanism has baffled many historians and cultural commentators. Who in their right mind would ever worship Satan, the representation of absolute evil? When in the 1980s, there was an alleged epidemic of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the United States, mental health professionals were pressured to approach this phenomenon from a clinical perspective. In this article, we consider the way some diagnostic criteria laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), could (and could not) be applied to some historical and contemporary aspects of Satanism.
- Subjects
SATANISM; SATANIC ritual abuse; SATANIC rituals; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; PSYCHOHISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Psychohistory, 2019, Vol 47, Issue 2, p126
- ISSN
0145-3378
- Publication type
Article