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Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs
In the post 911 world, people are more susceptible than ever to charismatic figures who offer simple, black v. white, us v. them, good v. evil, formulaic solutions. The rise of the Internet; increasingly sophisticated knowledge about how to influence and manipulate others; and the growing vulnerabilities of people across the planet—make for a dangerous, potentially devastating combination. Steven Hassan’s new book Freedom of Mind provides the knowledge and awareness needed to help yourself and loved ones avoid or escape from such dangerous people and situations. This must-read volume is a significantly updated and revised edition of Hassan’s groundbreaking Releasing the Bonds (2000). P...
The Cult of Trump
A masterful and eye-opening examination of Trump and the coercive control tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters written by “an authority on breaking away from cults…an argument that…bears consideration as the next election cycle heats up” (Kirkus Reviews). Since the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s behavior has become both more disturbing and yet increasingly familiar. He relies on phrases like, “fake news,” “build the wall,” and continues to spread the divisive mentality of us-vs.-them. He lies constantly, has no conscience, never admits when he is wrong, and projects all of his shortcomings on to others. He has become more authoritarian, more outrag...
Combatting Cult Mind Control
Describes the psychological techniques cults use to indoctrinate their members and discusses deprogramming.
Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
This 2018 30th anniversary edition honors the 40th anniversary of the tragedy in Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people including a U.S. congressman Leo Ryan died because of Cult Leader Jim Jones. Over 300 were children forced to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid by their parents who believed they were doing God’s will. The techniques of undue influence have evolved dramatically, and continue to do so. Today, a vast array of methods exist to deceive, manipulate, and indoctrinate people into closed systems of obedience and dependency. If you are reading this updated book for the first time, please know that you have found a safe, respectful, compassionate place. This book can...
Releasing the Bonds
Based on insider knowledge, years of scientific study, and the author's frequent workshops, the book offers a noncoercive, legal model for helping victims of mind control, showing practical ways to recognize the signs of a destructive relationship and to undo the residual effects of cult involvement.
Summary of Steven Hassan's Combating Cult Mind Control
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I am a therapist who helps people who have been damaged by cults. I help them start their lives over, and avoid the trauma associated with the often-illegal abduction method called deprogramming. #2 I spoke with Bruce’s parents, who had flown to Boston from Minneapolis. They wanted to bring him back to meet with me. I asked Bruce about himself and why his parents were so concerned, and he said they had not yet told him about pledge service. #3 It is easy to help someone who is already in a cult, but those who are being recruited are usually already under the group’s control. It is difficult to help people who have been in a cult for many years. #4 I help people leave destructive cults, and I do this by sensitizing them to the problem of mind control or undue influence. It is difficult to help someone leave a cult, so the best way to deal with this problem is to educate people about it.
The Making of a Moonie
The Moonie phenomenon inspired fear, anxiety and suspicion in the public mind, and the question always arises, Do people choose to become Moonies or are they brainwashed? This is the prizewinning story of an investigation by an outsider into who becomes a Moonie and how they do so.
Risks, Identity and Conflict
This volume explores the complex interrelation between risk, identity and conflict and focuses specifically on ethnicity, culture, religion and gender as modes of identity that are often associated with conflict in the contemporary world. It draws on theoretical perspectives as well as pays special attention to analysis of diverse case studies from Africa, Middle East, Europe, East and Southeast Asia and Latin America. Using various analytical tools and methodologies, it provides unique narratives of local and regional social risk factors and security complexities. The relationship between risk and security is multidimensional and perpetually changing, and lends itself to multiple interpretations. This publication provides a new ground for theoretical and policy debates to unlock innovative understanding of risk through analyses of identity as a significant factor in conflict in the world today. At the same time, it explores ways to address such conflicts in a more people-centered, empowering and sustainable way.
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and rebirth, accompanied by feelings of guilt, that characterizes the process of "thought reform." In a new preface, Lifton addresses the implications of his model for the study of American religious cults.
Summary of Steven Hassan's The Cult of Trump
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Trump’s first cabinet meeting was bizarre and unsettling. The country had already witnessed the almost daily onslaught of bizarre and contradictory statements and behavior coming from the Trump White House, but this should have been different. #2 Trump’s cabinet members may not have been passionate followers when they first met Trump, but they were still tied to him due to the immense power they could potentially have. #3 Cult leaders and regimes exert their power in a systematic fashion. They control information, and people learn to trust only the publications and news that come from the group itself. They create impossible standards of performance, and members feel guilty and ashamed if they don’t meet them. #4 Trump’s supporters are typically those who are absolute, black-and-white, and thought-stopping in their thinking. They learn a new vocabulary that conforms to group ideology.
