Richard p kluft biography of albert

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Richard Kluft is in some ways the scientific architect of the Satanic Panic.

Richard p kluft biography of albert

His early clinical interest was in hypnosis, and he was writing on its use in the treatment of multiple personality disorder (MPD) already in 1982. In 1983, he founded the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD; then the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality) with seven colleagues.

Kluft’s writing during the 1980s was prolific and focused almost exclusively on MPD, later rebranded as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). He also served as a consultant to “several hundred colleagues working with patients suffering [MPD] over the 15 year period 1973-1988.” His writing, editorial work, consulting work, and role in the ISSTD's annual conferences place him among the most dominant forces spreading the MPD message to the larger therapeutic community in the 1980s.

He also helped produce the videotape "Ritual Child Abuse: A Professional