THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

S was an intelligent, manipulative,
and aggressive child, who habitually
attacked and hurt other children.
I am more powerful and clever than my
normal sibling-peers, and I will punish them
for having the love and caring denied to me
[Hatred and narcissistic defenses against envy
and inferiority expressed in S's aggressive
attacks on other children].
Envious,
aggressIve,
inferior
behind
facade.
Envy,
and IaggressiOn.
child
grandiose
Hated recipients [ 72./"3,7ft,
of loving 75,76
attention denied
to S.
S's second encounter with Satanism
began when he first went to school,
and was taken by a teacher to a
ritual where he was bound, injected,
forced to drink blood, and
ceremonially washed.
Because I am different I have been singled out
by adults for involvement in something I don't
understand.
Victim of I Anxiety.
incomprehensible
adult
behavior.
Secretive,
abusive adults.
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S was taught witchcraft and I have been sucked into events I cannot ICompliant
infiltration of Christian youth understand or control. All I can do is learn to participant.
gatherings, and soon became do what is expected ofme.
desensitized to his extraordinary
experiences.
Resignation
Acceptance
Powerful,
controlling
adults.
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At S's initiation he was cut, and I have a new life in a new family, and IAccepted member I Gratification
wrote a pact in his own blood, everything I do must help my father, Satan, of a new family.
pledging himself to Satan and the destroy Christianity.
destruction of Christianity.
Approving I 81,82
parental figures.
S's satanic pact was burned, and the
ashes ingested with blood from all
the ritual participants.
When I drink my blood, mixed with the ashes
of my pact and blood of other Satanists, they
become part of me, and I become one with
them. [Introjective identification based on
cannibalistic ritual].
New identity as a I Gratification
Satanist.
Approving
parental figures.
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