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Article: Clinical assessment of adolescents involved in Satanism.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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An adolescent who practices Satanism recently said to the author, "I was a throwaway kid. Nobody wanted me and I needed a place to belong. I had a lust for power, and I needed to find a place where my violence was acceptable." This teenager is one of a growing number who feel empty and alienated, and may be searching for an identity and a place to belong. Unfortunately, some adolescents are fulfilling a number of their needs by aligning with deviant subcultures, one of which is Satanism.
Satanism is devil worship, a recognition of Satan as the charismatic being who is honored and exalted by his followers. Satan and his demons are considered to be all-powerful and ...