The following "chapters" are the result of a decade of formal, academic study and several decades of direct investigation, including participation in several cults before I understood what I was getting into. (Substantially enhanced 04-03-2021.)
What Are Cults and How Do They Work?
The Five Progressive Qualities of the Committed Cult Member
The Typical Path of Cult Involvement
Cult Membership as an Addiction Process... and a Process Addiction
Groupthink, Social Proof & Unquestioning Acceptance of Authority
Authoritarianism, Affective Polarization, and Economic Ideology (with commentary)
The Cynical Use of the Crowbar of Stipulated Belief in not-moses’s reply to the OP on that Reddit thread
Cognitive Dissonance & Double-Binding: The Sure Paths to Cultic Crazy-Making
Damned if you Do and Damned if you Don't "Double Binding" & the Treatment Thereof
How Cults use Benign Portals to Recruit New Blood in not-moses’s reply to the OP on that Reddit thread
Ego Decompensation & Emotional Blackmail in Thought Reform
Fantasy Operational Processing in The True Believer
Abusive Xtianity, Emotional Blackmail & How to Recover from the Lingering Effects of F.O.G.
The Cultic Road to Learned Helplessness and the After Effects of Being Groomed into Learned Helplessness
Article by Cult Expert Janja Lalich (2017)
How & Why do People Leave One Cult and End up in Another?
Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement among Upper Level Cult Authorities and not-moses’s reply to the OP in Do cult leaders know they are cult leaders?
The Typical Path of Cult Involvement
Do cult leaders really Believe what they are Preaching? in not-moses’s reply to the OP on that Reddit thread
The Psychology of the Cult Experience (1982)
Psychopaths as Gurus, and Vice-Versa
Religious / Cultic Trauma Syndrome
Social Proof and the Teflon True Believer
Abgrall's Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults
The True Believer, Spencer’s Model, the Addiction Model & the Paradox of Openmindedness
The Unquestioned Power of the Priest or Guru...
Can People truly Recover from Cult Indoctrination and Manipulation?
Do I need Exit Counseling or Deprogramming?
International Cultic Studies Association affiliate exit counselors include those listed right here. I cannot vouch for any of these people, but ICSA is pretty up to speed on how cults work and how to treat those who get to the second and third of the five stages of therapeutic recovery.
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