THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

APPENDIX 6 (A) SUBJECT SIX
S is a 33-year old ex-policeman, currently running his own business.
Natural meanin2 units
Central themes
1. As a child, I was very introverted, and l. S was an introverted and socially
hada hard time opening up to people, even withdrawn child.
to other children of my own age. I kept
mostly to myself.
2. I only managed to make a small group of 2. S's few childhood friends were similar in
close friends who were very much like me. temperament to him.
3. I never felt understood, and this stayed 3. For most of his life S never felt
with me until recently.
understood by those around him.
4. My relationship with my mother was 4. S maintained a peaceable relationship
peaceable, but I was never able to talk to with his hypersensitive mother at the
her as she got upset easily and saw my expense of avoiding self-disclosure about
problems as herfailures.
his difficulties, as she interpreted these as
reflecting her failures.
5. My father and I had a terrible 5. S had a bad relationship with his father,
relationship. I hardly ever spoke to him as who he hardly spoke to owing to the
he worked mostly nightshift on the mines, latter's work and sleep routines.
and when I came home from school he was
usually sleeping.
6. My father had a very violent temper and 6. S was often physically injured in violent
he would often beat me. He would punch assaults by his bad-tempered father.
me around the room and I would often
have black eyes and a broken nose.
7. This ended when 1 was twelve. My dad 7. S's beatings at the hands of his father
took to beating me one day, and I lost my ended when, at the age of 12, S lost his
temper and smashed a lamp over his head. temper and retaliated by assaulting him.
8. After this my mother decided enough is 8. S's mother could not tolerate the fatherenough,
andfrom then on I found myselfin son conflict and sent her son to boarding
one boarding school after another, just to school to separate them.
keep mydad andI apart.
9. From a young age I was very close to my 9. S had a close relationship with his two
two sisters, who were older than me, as I older sisters, the only family members he
felt that the}' were the only ones I could felt able to could communicate with.