Cults Inside Out: How People Get in and Can Get Out by Rick Alan Ross

Author:Rick Alan Ross [Ross, Rick Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Counseling, Cults, General, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Religion, Religion and Recovery, Religious Deconversion, Psychology of Religion
ISBN: 9781497316607
Amazon: 149731660X
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

Singer also expands on the three stages of coercive persuasion Edgar Schein, a professor at MIT, defined; these outlined the process of coercive persuasion in three basic steps.748 Going over these three steps offers an opportunity to examine the dynamic process of coercive persuasion and how change in that process is obtained.

1. “Unfreezing” is what Singer describes as “the destabilizing of a person’s sense of self.” This process includes “keeping the person unaware of what is going on and the changes taking place. Controlling the person’s time and if possible their physical environment. Creating a sense of powerless covert fear and dependency. And suppressing much of the person’s old behavior and attitudes.”

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