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Cults in Our Midst The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

25.04.2003

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Wiley

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432

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22,9/15,2/2,4 cm

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508 g

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Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7879-6741-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

25.04.2003

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

432

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/2,4 cm

Gewicht

508 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7879-6741-3

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Libri GmbH
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  • Produktbild: Cults in Our Midst
  • Foreword xi

    Acknowledgments xv

    Introduction to the Revised Edition xvii

    Introduction to the First Edition xxi

    Part 1 What Are Cults? 1

    1. Defining Cults 3

    Definitions and Characteristics

    Cult Types

    Who Joins Cults?

    Why Do They Join?

    2. A Brief History of Cults 29

    Cults in the 1800s

    The 1960s: Fertile Ground for Cults

    The 1970s: Cults to Expand Awareness

    The 1980s: Psychological, Occult, and Prosperity Cults

    Examples of New Cults

    Cause for Concern

    3. The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform 52

    Historical Examples of Brainwashing

    Packaged Persuasion

    Attacking the Self

    How Thought Reform Works

    Producing a New Identity

    Impermissible Experiments

    4. What's Wrong with Cults? 83

    Cults Threaten Legitimate Institutions

    Cults Harm Our Children and Tear Apart Our Families

    Cults Are Violent

    Cults Engage in Conspiracy and Fraud

    Small Cults Can Be Just as Harmful as Large

    Cults Take Away Our Freedom

    Cults Take Away Our Possessions

    Cults Escape Scrutiny

    What Is to Be Done?

    Part 2 How Do They Work? 103

    5. Recruiting New Members 105

    First Approach

    Invitation

    First Cult Contact

    Follow-Up: Gaining Greater Commitment

    Young and Old Alike Are Vulnerable

    The Double Agenda

    6. Physiological Persuasion Techniques 125

    Mass Marketing of Experiential Exercises

    Techniques Producing Predictable Physiological Responses

    Meditation May Not Always Be Good for You

    7. Psychological Persuasion Techniques 150

    Trance and Hypnosis

    Trickery

    Revision of Personal History

    Peer Pressure and Modeling

    Emotional Manipulation

    Psychotherapy Cults

    8. Intruding into the Workplace 182

    Clarification of New Age

    A Clash in the Workplace

    Violation of Civil Rights

    What Goes On in an LGAT?

    Development of a New Age Training Program: A Case Example

    Problems with Being "Transformed" at Work

    Psychological Casualties

    Buyer Beware: Thought-Reform Processes at Work

    9. The Threat of Intimidation 209

    Co-opted Professionals

    Intimidation and Harassment of Critics

    Part 3 How Can We Help Survivors to Escape and Recover? 241

    10. Rescuing the Children 243

    Children of Jonestown

    Children of Waco

    Children of Other Cults

    Role of the Cult Leader

    Role of Cult Parents

    What Children Learn in Cults

    After the Cult

    Children Are Survivors

    11. Leaving the Cult 266

    Why It's Hard to Leave

    Ways of Leaving the Cult

    Deprogramming and Exit Counseling

    12. Recovery: Coming Out of the Pseudopersonality 295

    Recovering from Cult Aftereffects

    Practical Issues

    Psychological and Emotional Difficulties

    Cognitive Inefficiencies

    Social and Personal Relations

    Philosophical and Attitudinal Issues

    Helpful Tasks for Individuals Leaving Cults

    There Is Life After the Cult

    Postscript to the First Edition: The Millennium, Cults, and the End of the Century 335

    Postscript to the Revised Edition 339

    Chapter Notes 357

    Resources and Organizations 379

    Further Reading 383

    The Author 385

    Index 387