Related Experiment Videos
An adolescent vampire cult in rural America: clinical issues and case study
T W Miller1, L J Veltkamp, R F Kraus
1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536, USA.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
|March 19, 1999
Abstract:
The emergence of cult related activities in rural America are examined. Cults and their attraction to adolescents are addressed as are methods of cult indoctrination and a profile of cult members and their leader. Clinical management along with a rationale for the attraction of some adolescents to cults are discussed. A case study of a vampire cult and the psychopathology identified in the leader of the cult are provided. Import for clinicians is offered.