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Cults in our midst
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- Creator
- Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich ; foreword by Robert Jay Lifton
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996
- ©1995
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 373 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780787902667, 0787902667
- OCLC
- ocm35979557
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-363) and index.
- 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