ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the internal world of the paedophile—a little-known region of the mind of adults and juvenile individuals who experience the imperative need for sexual congress with children and act upon it. It presents the early sexual experiences of a person who later became a paedophile, the difficulty that the therapist had in dealing with his paedophile patient, and the kind of therapeutic relationship that had to be maintained. So that the patient could begin to gain some control over his perversion, not interrupt therapy, and simultaneously protect children. The book describes the paedophile patient as a juvenile socially disturbed individual and presents clinical incidents of child abuse. It reviews the non-analytic literature dealing with the ritualized sexual abuse of children and the lawsuits pertaining to the intensive investigation of Satanic cults.
