Now I can see the Moon : a story of a social panic, false memories, and a life cut short

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Label

Now I can see the Moon : a story of a social panic, false memories, and a life cut short

Title remainder

a story of a social panic, false memories, and a life cut short

Statement of responsibility

Alice Tallmadge

Creator

• Tallmadge, Alice

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Tallmadge, Alice

Subject

• Multiple personality
• Ritual abuse victims
• Electronic books
• Tallmadge, Michelle -- Death and burial
• Tallmadge, Michelle
• False memory syndrome

Language

eng

Summary

In the 1980s and 1990s, a mind-boggling social panic over child sex abuse swept through the country, landing childcare workers in prison and leading hundreds of women to begin recalling episodes of satanic ritual abuse and childhood abuse by family members. Now I Can See the Moon: A Story of a Social Panic, False Memories, and a Life Cut Short is a deeply personal account of the devastating impact the panic had on one family. In trying to understand the suicide of her twenty-three-year-old niece, a victim of the panic, the author discovers that what she thought was an isolated tragedy was, in fact, part of a much larger social phenomenon that sucked in individuals from all walks of life, convincing them to believe the unbelievable and embrace the most aberrant claims as truth

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

616.85/2360092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult