Sex abuse hysteria : Salem witch trials revisited / Richard A. Gardner.
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TextPublication details: Cresskill, N.J. : Creative Therapeutics, c1991.Description: xiii, 150 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0933812221
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Includes index
The basic sex abuse problem --
The normal fantasies of childhood --
Sex abuse prevention programs --
The ubiquity of environmental sexual stimuli --
The parental contribution --
Vicarious gratification --
Projection --
Reaction formation --
Voyeurism --
Release of anger --
Displacement of blame --
Substitution --
Suggestibility and the mass hysteria phenomenon --
Greed --
The validators and other examiners --
Who are these people? --
What do they do? --
Why do these people do it? --
Concluding comments --
The children --
The parental impact prior to the first interview --
Caveats regarding the first interview --
Children are liars --
Ingratiation to adult authorities --
The keeping-up-with-the-Joneses phenomenon --
Notoriety --
The progressive elaboration of the accusations --
Physicians --
Prosecutors --
Judges --
Lawyers --
The so-called therapists --
Society --
Exaggerated reactions to pedophilia --
Public media --
Fanatic feminists --
The alleged devil worshipers --
Additional social factors --
The Salem witchcraft trials --
A historical review --
Similarities between the late-twentieth-century sex abuse hysteria and the Salem witchcraft hysteria --
The major differences between the Salem witch trials and our twentieth-century sex abuse hysteria.
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