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Author Singer, Margaret Thaler.

Title Cults in our midst / Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich ; foreword by Robert Jay Lifton.

Imprint San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1995.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  291.9019 Si64c    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxiv, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-370) and index.
Contents Defining cults -- Brief history of cults -- Process of brainwashing, psychological coercion, and thought reform -- What's wrong with cults? -- Recruiting new members -- Physiological persuasion techniques -- Psychological persuasion techniques -- Intruding into the workplace -- Threat of intimidation -- Rescuing the children -- Leaving the cult -- Recovery : coming out of the pseudopersonality.
Subject Cults.
Psychology, Religious.
Persuasion (Psychology)
United States -- Religion -- 1960-
Added Author Lalich, Janja.
ISBN 0787900516 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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