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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction to the Revised Edition | |
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Introduction to the First Edition | |
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What Are Cults? | |
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Defining Cults | |
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Definitions and Characteristics | |
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Cult Types | |
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Who Joins Cults? | |
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Why Do They Join? | |
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A Brief History of Cults | |
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Cults in the 1800s | |
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The 1960s: Fertile Ground for Cults | |
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The 1970s: Cults to Expand Awareness | |
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The 1980s: Psychological, Occult, and Prosperity Cults | |
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Examples of New Cults | |
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Cause for Concern | |
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The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform | |
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Historical Examples of Brainwashing | |
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Packaged Persuasion | |
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Attacking the Self | |
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How Thought Reform Works | |
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Producing a New Identity | |
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Impermissible Experiments | |
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What's Wrong with Cults? | |
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Cults Threaten Legitimate Institutions | |
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Cults Harm Our Children and Tear Apart Our Families | |
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Cults Are Violent | |
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Cults Engage in Conspiracy and Fraud | |
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Small Cults Can Be Just as Harmful as Large | |
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Cults Take Away Our Freedom | |
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Cults Take Away Our Possessions | |
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Cults Escape Scrutiny | |
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What Is to Be Done? | |
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How Do They Work? | |
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Recruiting New Members | |
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First Approach | |
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Invitation | |
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First Cult Contact | |
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Follow-Up: Gaining Greater Commitment | |
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Young and Old Alike Are Vulnerable | |
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The Double Agenda | |
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Physiological Persuasion Techniques | |
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Mass Marketing of Experiential Exercises | |
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Techniques Producing Predictable Physiological Responses | |
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Meditation May Not Always Be Good for You | |
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Psychological Persuasion Techniques | |
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Trance and Hypnosis | |
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Trickery | |
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Revision of Personal History | |
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Peer Pressure and Modeling | |
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Emotional Manipulation | |
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Psychotherapy Cults | |
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Intruding into the Workplace | |
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Clarification of New Age | |
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A Clash in the Workplace | |
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Violation of Civil Rights | |
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What Goes On in an LGAT? | |
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Development of a New Age Training Program: A Case Example | |
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Problems with Being "Transformed" at Work | |
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Psychological Casualties | |
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Buyer Beware: Thought-Reform Processes at Work | |
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The Threat of Intimidation | |
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Co-opted Professionals | |
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Intimidation and Harassment of Critics | |
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How Can We Help Survivors to Escape and Recover? | |
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Rescuing the Children | |
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Children of Jonestown | |
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Children of Waco | |
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Children of Other Cults | |
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Role of the Cult Leader | |
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Role of Cult Parents | |
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What Children Learn in Cults | |
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After the Cult | |
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Children Are Survivors | |
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Leaving the Cult | |
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Why It's Hard to Leave | |
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Ways of Leaving the Cult | |
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Deprogramming and Exit Counseling | |
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Recovery: Coming Out of the Pseudopersonality | |
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Recovering from Cult Aftereffects | |
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Practical Issues | |
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Psychological and Emotional Difficulties | |
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Cognitive Inefficiencies | |
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Social and Personal Relations | |
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Philosophical and Attitudinal Issues | |
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Helpful Tasks for Individuals Leaving Cults | |
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There Is Life After the Cult | |
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Postscript to the First Edition: The Millennium, Cults, and the End of the Century | |
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Postscript to the Revised Edition | |
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Chapter Notes | |
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Resources and Organizations | |
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Further Reading | |
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The Author | |
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Index | |