THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

E's avoidance of further human
sacrifices incurred the wrath of
Satan, who E believed punished him
with physical symptoms.
Disobedient son
Persecutory
anxiety
Vengeful
paternal
object.
Satan is punishing me for my disobedience
with painful bodily symptoms. [Depressive
remorse associated with the good internal
object mobilised fantasies of internal attack
on E's body by the persecutory paternal partobject].
part-
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Satan continued to persecute the
disloyal E by sending demons to
attack him, induce suicidal urges,
and put his life at physical risk.
I have angered Satan with my disloyalty and
he is now persecuting me. [Attacks by
destructive paternal part-object assume
delusional intensity].
Fearful child
Persecutory
anxiety
Persecutory
paternal partobject
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E began to cut himself in order to I am a bad child who must inflict physical I Bad,
appease Satan, resulting in suffering on myself to appease my angry child.
masochistic pleasure associated with father. [Masochistic enslavement to the
childhood recollections of pain persecutory paternal part-object].
inflicted by his father's beatings.
guilty I Masochistic
gratification.
Angry paternal I 64,65
part-object
Fantasies of demonic attack from
within affected E's work
performance and led to him being
boarded for psychological disability.
Satan and his demons are inside of me,
gnawing away at me from within. [Paranoid
fantasy of oral aggressive attacks by
destructive internal objects].
Victim
persecutory
attacks
of I Paranoid
anxiety.
Attacking
demonic entities.
[Destructive
internal objects].
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E's attempts to leave Satanism Satan and his demons are going to kill me. IHelpless,
began when, fearing he would be All I can do is seek help from the Satanists' persecuted child.
killed by Satan, he rushed into a Christian enemies.
church and confessed he was a
Satanist.
Fear,
desperation
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