THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

APPENDIX 6 (B) SUBJECT SIX : Significant interpersonal contexts, fantasies, and corresponding object relations derivatives
InterDersonal Context Fantasy Self rep. Affect link Obiect rep T. no.
S felt the need to shield his The disclosure of things inside me hurts my Bad, destructive. Guilt Vulnerable, 4
hypersensitive mother from his own mother and are bad, so I must not let her injured maternal
emotional difficulties, as she know how I feel. [Maternal inability to object.
interpreted these as reflecting her contain S's experiences reinforces depressive
maternal failure.
anxieties about his inner badness threatening
his good objects].
S was an introverted and socially People do not understand me, like me, or want Rejected, Resentment Rejecting 1,2,3
withdrawn child, who had few to be with me. [Projection of misunderstood,
friends, and seldom felt understood misunderstanding and rejecting maternal withdrawn.
by those around him.
object onto others].
S had a bad relationship with his My father hates me and hurts me Hated, Anger Cruel, 5,6,7
absent and non-communicative [Internalisation of sadistic, persecutory persecuted child. persecuting
father, who frequently injured S in paternal part-object]. father.
violent assaults.
When S's mother sent him to Instead of defending me, mother has sent me Alienated, Anger Rejecting 8,9,10
boarding school to avoid the father- away, and I have lost the only good rejected. maternal partson
conflict, S lost the previously relationships I had. [S deprived ofgood object object.
close relationship he had with his relations by rejecting maternal part-object].
older sisters.