Editing Religious abuse (section)

===Psychohistorical explanation===
{{Main|Psychohistorical views on infanticide}}

A small number of academics subscribe to the theory of [[psychohistory]] and attribute the abusive rituals to the [[psychopathology|psychopathological]] [[projection (psychology)|projection]] of the perpetrators, especially the parents.{{Sfn|deMause|2002|pp=258–262}}{{Sfn|Godwin|2004|p=124–176}}

This ''psychohistorical'' model claims that practices of [[Tribal society|tribal societies]] sometimes included [[incest]] and the sacrifice, [[mutilation]], rape and torture of children, and that such activities were culturally acceptable.<ref>{{cite book |last=deMause |first=Lloyd |title=Foundations of Psychohistory |date=January 1982 |publisher=Creative Roots Publishing |isbn=9780940508019 |pages=132–146 |author-link=Lloyd deMause}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Rascovsky |first=Arnaldo |url=https://archive.org/details/filicidemurderhu0000rasc/ |title=Filicide: The Murder, Humiliation, Mutilation, Denigration and Abandonment of Children by Parents |publisher=[[Jason Aronson|Aronson]] |year=1995 |isbn=9781568214566 |location=Northvale |pages=107 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>