Definition of a Destructive Cult

by Allen Tate Wood



1.) A PHENOMENOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGY OF DESTRUCTIVE CULTS

A. ABSOLUTE LEADER
B. ABSOLUTE TEACHING
C. HIERARCHICAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE
D. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ADVERSARY
E. THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS AS A MODUS OPERANDI
F. CRISIS PSYCHOLOGY
G. THE INNER CIRCLE


2.) AN EXAMINATION OF THE VARIABLES AT PLAY DURING THE PROCESS OF RECRUITMENT AND INDOCTRINATION

A. MILIEU CONTROL
B. COMUNICATION WEB/THE MANIPULATION OF INTIMACY
C. PEAK EXPERIENCES AND PLANNED SPONTANEITY
D. THE SPLITTING PHENOMENON: THE EXPERIENCE OF EVIL
E. METAPHOR AND RITUAL: THE BINDING CHAINS
F. THE REPUDIATION OF THE CONSCIENCE, THE REJECTION OF
THE CRITICAL FACULTIES AND THE COLONIZATION OF THE
IMAGINATION UNDERSTOOD AS AN EXPERIENCE OF GOD.


3.) AN EXPOSITION OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF ADDICTION AND THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF INDOCTRINATION

A. SUBSTANCE ADDICTION VS. PROCESS ADDICTION
B. INTRAPSYCHIC SYMPTOMS: FLASHBACKS AND FLOATING
C. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE "FISHBOWL"
D. PARALLELS IN RECOVERY

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