THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

S's pet animals start
following his disclosure
possession experience.
dying
of his
The destructive spirit in me is punishing me
for disclosing it's presence by magically
killing my beloved pets. [The omnipotent bad
internal object vengefully destroys S's loved
objects].
Incredulous,
helpless witness
to the bad
object's malice.
Horror,
helplessness.
Malevolent,
murderous,
persecutory
internal object.
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Shortly after his possession IAdults are secretly involving me in frightening
experience, S's grandmother took events which I cannot understand.
him to a satanic meeting where he
dimly recalls being interfered with,
ceremonially washed, and forced to
watch a sex ritual.
Vulnerable child I Anxiety,
victim of helplessness.
incomprehensible
adult
attention.
Ominous,
threatening
adults.
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S believes that his grandmother, My grandmother, who passes as a Christian,
who presented herself as a is in fact a satanic witch who wishes to
Christian, was a satanic witch, who exploit and sexually abuse me.
on one occasion frightened him by
exposing herselfto him.
Child victim
I Fear
Abusive
woman.
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S's grandmother introduces him to
his "real" mother, thereby creating
the idea that his birth was the
consequence ofa mysterious satanic
breeding program.
I was conceived under mysterious and special
circumstances, and my biological mother is an
exotic woman from another country. [S
interprets his encounter with a strange woman
in terms of the narcissistic fantasy that his
conception was special, and that he has
another "real" mother].
Special child. Gratification ISecret exotic
derived from maternal figure.
sense of
ul1lqueness
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51,53,54
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