Dr. Steven Hassan on cults, undue influence, extremism, and recovery.
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You Would Never Join a Cult
On Day 1, you push back. On Day 67, you recruit.
The question comes to me more than any other, from people who got out and from families who watched someone go in. It is always some version of the same sentence.
Newsletter: The Return of the Cult Mindset - Even Years Later
Some months after my exit from the Moonies, I was driving through a town, and the thought popped into my head: “This would be an excellent fundraising spot!”
But I’d already left the group, realized that Moon was a liar, and had shed the d...
Carlos Castaneda’s Cult of Witches with Ru Marshall
Carlos Castaneda sold more than 10 million books to readers who thought they were buying anthropology. Real fieldwork. A real Yaqui shaman named Don Juan, teaching a real Westerner how to see. None of it happened. Castaneda made it up, and...
How Ex-Members Slip Back Into Cult Thinking
The conditioned response that jolts survivors back into the cult mindset
In the 1970s, as deprogrammers worked with more cult members, they noticed that some ex-members who appeared to have clearly realized the group was a fraud, or a brai...
Newsletter: Are Courts Failing Our Families?
For some families, the absolute worst outcome can become shockingly real: instead of a loving parent, a family court can declare where your child sleeps tonight, whether you’re allowed to see them, and whether you’re even permitted to raise...
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Leading expert on cults, coercion, and undue influence. NYT Best Selling author. Helping people recognize and recover from manipulative groups and relationships. Creator of the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control.
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