I have been writing about my writing, or rather about the topics on which I have researched and published through the centuries. Today’s topic, the Satanism Scare. In the 1980s, the issue of child sexual abuse attracted enormous public attention, and themes of trauma and recovery generated a whole publishing industry. One of the most popular and influential recovery texts, The Courage to Heal (1988) includes the story of a woman who claimed that she had as a child been... Read more