Description

Cults are on the rise today, with recruitment practices targeting all segments of society, including the elderly. A former cult member and one of America's leading experts in counseling people involved in cults, Steven Hassan exposes the troubling facts about destructive cults (religious, political, psychotherapeutic, commercial, and educational) and shows you how to:

• Recognize the signs of a destructive organization.
• Protect yourself from psychological manipulation.
• Rescue a friend or loved one from a destructive cult — without coercion.
• Overcome the residual problems of former cult membership.

[From back cover.]

Table of Contents

Chapter

1. Exit-Counseling: The Background
2. My Life in the Unification Church
3. The Threat: Mind Control Cults Today
4. Understanding Mind Control
5. Cult Psychology
6. Cult Assessment: How to Protect Yourself
7. Exit-Counseling: Freedom Without Coercion
8. How to Help
9. Unlocking Cult Mind Control
10. Strategies for Recovery
11. The Next Step

Appendix: Lifton's Eight Criteria of Mind Control
Resource Organizations