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103. After the demon left it felt like a 103. Although relived by the extrusion of weight fell from my shoulders, but I was her demon, S was frightened by the still scared, and didn't know what to do. realisation that she stood In solitary Now I was standing all alone against the opposition to the Satanists' spiritual power. Satanists. It was quite hard. Its a spiritual thing. 104. At that stage Satan couldn't get to me 104. Although immune to Satan's because I was covered in the blood of retribution by virtue of Jesus' protection, S Jesus. But if I got a letter from the did not know how to manage the Satanists' Satanists, I didn't know what to do. attempts to contact her. 105. Everyone around was Catholics or 105. S perceived herself to be surrounded Methodists who didn't believe what I'd by individuals who did not believe her been through. satanic experiences. 106. But I trusted God and that helped me, 106. S was assisted by her trust in God. that brought me through. 107. I do sometimes get phone calls, 107. S is still threatened with retribution by especially when I help other Satanists come Satanists. out. Letters saying I 'm on their hit list, and they're going to get me. 108. Now I think its funny because they 108. S now experiences herself as invincible don't have any power over me. I'm sorting from satanic influence, and as having the Satan out, I can help people. power to combat Satan. How would you describe yourself now? Natural meanin2 units Central themes 109. Well, I'm a very calm person now, a 109. Since leaving Satanism S has very spontaneous person. Totally changed, experienced a dramatic change, becoming more relaxed, listening to people, serving calm, relaxed, spontaneous, open to others people. and willing to serve them. 110. Earlier, I would never do that. I got 110. S attributes her personality a piece of my heart that only God could transformation to a God-given metaphorical give me. I've got a total personality heart graft, and now attempts to emulate change. I try to be like Jesus now. Jesus Christ. 16
APPENDIX 1 (b) Significant interpersonal contexts, fantasies, and corresponding object relations derivatives Interoersonal Context Fantasy Self rep. Affect link Obiee!reo. T. no. Striving to Will parental Being a perfect child IS Successful, Unexpressed Depriving, 2,3,4 love/recognition ill absence of necessary to earn parental morally good resentment frustrating meaningful relationship with love as the ordinary child is parents. not good enough. [Nucleus of persecutory superego]. Maternal relationship based on Sporting and scholastic Needy, frustration, Withholding, 2,1l physical provision, rather than love. achievement will make S inadequate, hope unresponSIve loveable, not being loveable lacking as she is. [Identification with perceived parental ideals] Paternal drunkenness, physical Father IS dangerous and Frightened, Fear, Violent, 7,8 abuse, and exploitation. wishes to hurt me abused, impotence, punitive [Internalisation of abusive vulnerable hatred paternal object] Paternal denial of S's Father treats me like the son Sexless, Anger, unresponSIve, 9 femininity/individuality. I am not [My femininity is unrecognised, frustration rough not recognised and IS not angry valuable] Paternal prediction of disastrous S is a disaster in Fathers' anXIOUS, Desperation malevolent 10 life. eyes. [S is the childhood defiant receptacle of father's projective identifications]
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVO
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis is ded
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract Introduc
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PART FOUR: OBJECT RELATIONS, ANALYT
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15.3.3 Experience of satanic cult i
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ii abuse, holding professional conf
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iv personal experience of satanic c
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vi This dissertation spans a number
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Vlll perceptions of Satanic phenome
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1 PART ONE THE EMERGENCE OF DEMO IC
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3 makes the notion of evil possible
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5 / is largely a creation of Christ
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7 J for the Judaeo-Christian belief
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9 Cavendish, 1967, p. 281). The Heb
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11 worship God's creation, man. Lus
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13 In the New Testament, Satan's id
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15 portrayed as an independent evil
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17 perception that heretics were un
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19 witches are subservient (Cohn, 1
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21 the body was divided into 'honou
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23 Cathar monks corrupted the tradi
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25 chief Archon was frequently iden
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27 A number of factors were respons
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29 While there is no doubting the h
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31 19th Century. Satan became a cen
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33 and practised black magic and ca
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35 values and ends, what all these
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37 been known to commit crimes and
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39 much from his character and "dep
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41 1972), stylised rituals, and dra
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43 of Magick: "a way of perfecting
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45 to exist in the same way as God
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47 3.4.8. Charismatic authority Sat
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49 them more vulnerable to assuming
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51 victims may be babies or artific
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53 PART TWO THEORIES OF SATANIC CUL
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55 Two on the rise and fall ofthe d
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57 Satanism is more than the romant
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59 adolescent conflict may interfer
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61 Bourget et al. (1988) documented
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63 Levine and Salter (cited in Ross
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65 unattainable with the patient's
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67 3. The emotional energy and exci
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69 therapeutic function distinguish
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71 description of a danger, identif
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73 reinforcing agencies and influen
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75 5.2.5 The Survivor/recovery move
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77 supporting a history of alleged
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79 the social construction of Satan
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81 falsely 'remembers' as one's own
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83 Each of the above alternative ex
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85 CHAPTER SIX THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DE
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87 the soul" (Ellenberger, 1970, p.
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89 6. When the party vomits up stra
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91 occurs without any cult particip
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93 Pfeifer interprets the relativel
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95 7. Unusual impact on others: oth
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97 simply a form ofhysteria. He app
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99 belief systems, and the impact o
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101 enemies by having the demoniac
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103 possession and hysteria. A hypo
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105 has little relevance to the dis
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107 psychic disturbance which captu
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109 the ambivalent impulses ansmg f
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III both neurosis and religion have
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113 Freud noted similar totemic asp
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115 ritual element in both obsessio
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117 Despite this suggestion that de
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119 melancholia" and the Devil had
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121 What he is rebelling against is
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123 hides behind a civilised veneer
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125 theory of the superego, and res
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127 7.3 Freudian interpretation in
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129 the hostile castrating father b
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131 PART FOUR OBJECT RELATIONS, ANA
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133 CHAPTER 8 KLEINIAN PSYCHOANALYS
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135 of Klein's object relations the
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137 of the bad object and the infan
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139 fantasies and splitting defence
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141 which the self is identified wi
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143 This combination of negative fe
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145 feelings of resentment and depr
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147 Summary Although Freud portraye
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149 fantasies, i.e. mental represen
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151 The positive aspects of the ori
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153 However, through a process of p
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155 Fairbairn, by deliberately empl
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157 Since the joy of loving seems h
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159 differentiation of experience i
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161 Implicit in Kernberg's emphasis
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Identification also occurs through
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165 CHAPTER 10 AN INTEGRATED OBJECT
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167 child is confronted with the re
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169 These individuals typically exp
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17\ forces. Certain individuals in
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173 Where dependence on internal go
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175 Meltzer (1979) employs the conc
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177 Chasseguet-Smirgel does not dis
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179 The implication ofthis is that
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181 structured around mythological
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183 of oral sadistic impulses. The
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185 CHAPTER ELEVEN e.G. JUNG AND TH
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187 Religion appears to me to be a
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189 "redeeming" quality, rather tha
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191 Not only were the gods dragged
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193 experience, and we turn now to
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195 The child is guided by the powe
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197 In lung's model of mind, even m
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199 fact that we may identitY with
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201 1. In the first subtype, corres
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203 Possession, in this sense, is a
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205 If ever we are disposed to see
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207 depends on the strategies that
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209 possessive symptoms, such as pe
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211 gives psychological life its dy
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213 demonic spiritual aspect in Chr
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215 When attempting to relate objec
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217 12.2 The role of fantasy in psy
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219 experience of their real parent
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221 Even if the meaning conferred u
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223 12.5 The ego and the self in ob
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225 12.6 An archetypal object relat
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227 consciousness, before it IS onc
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229 most individuals, those drawn t
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231 objective of exploring the mean
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233 reVIew suggests that a theoreti
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235 1. It lays bare prior conceptio
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237 without generating an unmanagea
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239 components of internal object r
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241 I. Identification of significan
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243 3. General interpretation of sa
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245 should be testable by other rea
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247 thus defensively split offfrom
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249 S's split-offand dissociated ps
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251 Her status as a "Bride of Satan
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253 S once witnessed Satan's materi
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255 be a crazed, perverse, and unju
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257 triumph, S's oedipal victory ca
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259 from his identification with th
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261 S's grandiose belief that he ha
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263 S, now identified with the prev
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265 the reported actual qualities o
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267 original family interactions (3
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269 S's hallucinatory perception of
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271 This situation perpetuated S's
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273 rejected by women until now, th
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275 himself to be a willing recepta
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277 based on the triumphant fantasy
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279 split-off negative self represe
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281 14.5.3. Experience of satanic c
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283 Satan, the more destructively S
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285 previous manic elation was repl
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287 contaminating bad internal obje
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289 socially withdrawn child, who h
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291 gratification, reversed the tra
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293 which S's ego could not assimil
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295 After being arrested for exhibi
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297 identifying with his destructiv
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299 S's ceremonial initiation comme
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301 that he and his demons were hel
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303 When the spirits were commanded
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305 interacting with self represent
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308 attractive. For individuals who
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310 Satanism's status as an aggress
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312 Satanic activity, however, does
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314 The second phase of individuals
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316 aggravated by the children's ho
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318 14.2.5. Motives for leaving Sat
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320 his family. These interpersonal
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322 reactions may be understood as
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324 continues to project both good
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326 their own internal world - in o
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328 CHAPTER FIFTEEN DISCUSSION Intr
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330 Although the realist and constr
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332 argues in this regard that narr
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334 form, happens prior to satanic
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336 maternal object plays no role i
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338 to peer groups and teachers wit
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340 about... being destructive, des
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342 heroic rebellion which matches,
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344 identity of Satan is echoed by
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346 experience a sense of euphoria
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348 The question of whether the Sat
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350 propitiatory act in-that the vi
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352 Identification with the pervers
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354 The magician prepares himself b
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Page 418 and 419: spirit to go to places, you can wat
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Page 422 and 423: 89. Well, I wanted to get out. I wa
Page 426 and 427: Interoersonal context Fantasy Self
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Page 432 and 433: out. 8. And so all this was forming
Page 434 and 435: father". 22. I didn't say nothing b
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Page 438 and 439: why don't you be that person he sho
Page 440 and 441: to you, to get close to you. He cre
Page 442 and 443: don't like them. They think they ha
Page 444 and 445: death or reaping. They bring in cer
Page 446 and 447: age, and a very high sexual vitalit
Page 448 and 449: some aren't. Some of these spirits
Page 450 and 451: It's the fastest way for a man to d
Page 452 and 453: eferred to the Christian church as
Page 454 and 455: my mouth and they died I didn't hav
Page 456 and 457: comes walking into the house - J sa
Page 458 and 459: mutual agreement. There's certain t
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Page 464 and 465: Interpersonal Context Hears mother
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17. The more I got involved in it t
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How did being a Satanist effect you
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animals, but also for my fellow man
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... you had to cut yourself. I used
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normalpsycho wardat the hospital. 7
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suppose that's part of the compulsi
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E derived pleasure from being cruel
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The collective satanic in-group Non
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E's avoidance of further human sacr
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E acknowledges that, in the light o
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APPENDIX 4 (a) SUBJECT FOUR S is a
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17. Anyway, it began I was nineteen
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their Satanic identity secret. I di
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53. Through using black magic there
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and obeyed him, like a teacher, wer
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serious (laughs). 83. After a long
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99. f love attending church ... get
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S experienced his self-declared The
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S's friend presented himself as liv
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S's satanic membership gave him a n
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S invited demonic possession m orde
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S, feeling cleansed of all internal
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11. I wasforced to keep the demon a
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you". 31. I must Slry I felt a lot
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49. I could only see my real mother
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68. My demon screamedat me, calling
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had to write out. 83. Then they put
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employment. attend rituals, 99. Dad
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everybody, and then suddenly change
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130. Relationships in the coven wer
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about what I was involved in. I'd d
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andeveryone likes you. But I was, I
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was exhausted I couldn't walk prope
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and God supremely powerful. 201. No
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S's pet animals start following his
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S's parents' disclose that his birt
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Satanism gave S power, material goo
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Believing that Lucifer wished him t
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Love was absent from S's satanic I
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The horror of S's satanic I cannot
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S was called up for compulsory I do
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The spiritual battle inside of S ma
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S's spiritual battle ended at the p
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communicate with. 10. As we got old
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28. I then got involved with a bike
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46. I only came to realise later th
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very good about it, as through the
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little to do with each other. By th
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91. To make matters worse, they wer
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choice I hadever had to make in my
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and not relying on your own strengt
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APPENDIX 6 (B) SUBJECT SIX : Signif
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After S's esoteric quest led him to
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S believed that his satanic activit
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S invited demonic possession By inv
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After becoming a Christian S feared
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Despite his Christian conversion S
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APPENDIX 7 (A) SUBJECT SEVEN S is a
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Iofme. One Imndred percent terrifie
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other me a bit. It was the kind oft
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48. The lust ... no one said "Don't
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What was your relationship like wit
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your body. You accept it as part of
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90. My body felt cold, but empty. I
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had decided to leave, and the other
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APPENDIX 7 (B) SUBJECT SEVEN: Signi
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S had a Catholic upbringing, but ne
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S's hatred ofpeople, and consequent
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As a Satanist, S experienced a sens
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S experienced himself to be a host
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When the spirits were commanded to
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