THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

APPENDIX 2 (a) SUBJECT TWO
B is a 45 year old, divorced business man, actively involved in Satanism between the
ages of 21 and 30.
Natural meanin2 units
1. The biggest influence on my life was being
raised as an abused child
2. I didn't see it as abuse, I thought it was a
normal way oflife.
3. There was incest in the family '" My sister
was sexually abused She was raped by daddy.
Central themes
1. B identifies the experience of childhood
physical abuse as his primary developmental
influence.
2. The frequency ofthe paternal abuse meant
that, as a child, B perceived it as a normal
way oflife.
3. B's sister was sexually molested and raped
by their father.
4. At the age of 12 or 13 my Daddy, You 4. B vividly recalls how, as a young
know this is something I don't want to talk adolescent, he was unjustly beaten by his
about Sometimes as a kidyou block out a lot father.
ofthings, but I remember one time he told me
to turn the TV off '" this is crazy...1 was
watching and he got up and came in there and
said, "Boy, 1 thought 1 toldyou to turn the TV
off'. I went into the bathroom and he came in
there and beat me with his fist just for the hell
ofit.
5: And 1 told Mom, "One of these days I'm 15. B informed his mother of his senous
going to kill that bastard", and/ meant it.
intention to kill his hated father.
6. He used to come in every weekend drunk and 16. B's father would regularly return home
beat mom up with hisfist.
intoxicated and beat B'smother.
7. 1was laying in bedone night andhe knocked 17. B recalls witnessing his father knock his
her out ... / was laying there quiet, pretending mother unconscious.
to be asleep, and 1 opened up one eye and saw
her laying on the bed, / was on the bed next to
her, and she didn't wake up - he'd knocked her
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