Routledge - 2016 - 236 p. - ISBN: 9781138677975.
Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing draws on the author’s 25 years of study and research to explain how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts.
The overthrow of the rulers of the mind.
Fear: It’s screamingly obvious.
Recruitment: The accidental extremist.
Totalist indoctrination: Isolation in a crowded place.
Family and Friends: Not as Close as Chairman Mao.
The Will of the Fuehrer is the Party’s Law: Totalist leaders and the structures they create.
Secrets and Lies: The Total Ideology.
From the Inside Out.
Deployable, but not Manchurian: It’s a Human Thing.
The Flute Player: What Should an Open Society Do?