Cover of Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults

Book · 2015 · Psychology

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults

by Steven Hassan, PhD · Recommended by 2 people on 2 podcasts

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You you wrote a book um, combating cult mind control.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2015 Listen at 1:56

Why people recommend it

Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults by Steven Hassan, PhD, is a prominent psychological resource detailing the mechanisms of undue influence and offering strategies for helping individuals recover from high-control groups. The text serves as a definitive guide for understanding psychological manipulation used by both commercial and religious cults. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, host Jordan Harbinger brought up Hassan's extensive bibliography, specifically referencing the concepts outlined in his work while discussing the mechanics of how and why people join destructive cults. Harbinger engaged the author in a deep examination of mind control tactics. Similarly, Joe Rogan welcomed Steven Hassan as a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, introducing the conversation by directly mentioning that Hassan had written Combating Cult Mind Control. Rogan used the book's title to establish the foundational topic of the interview, framing the discussion around the author's professional expertise in deprogramming and psychological recovery. Both podcast appearances reinforced the book's status as an essential authority on the subject of undue influence, providing listeners with crucial educational tools to identify, understand, and resist manipulative environments and destructive psychological tactics.

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Joe Rogan you you wrote a book um, combating cult mind control. 1
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“you you wrote a book um, combating cult mind control.”
Jordan Harbinger you outline in the book cult mind control that you have many books but the one I'm referring to is called m… 1
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“you outline in the book cult mind control that you have many books but the one I'm referring to is called mind control”
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“and I like to think reading my books or looking at some of my free videos on freedom of mind calm will give people a consumers mindset of what questions to ask”
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“and then when the internet happens that and my book came out combating cult mind control in 1988 a lot of the cult leaders read my book sharing so they weren't allowing people to go home by themselves”
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“Combating cult mind control, Steve Assan.”

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