Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2019-10-13

Books mentioned on Why Do People Join Cults? | Steven Hassan

3 books · With Steven Hassan · Watch on YouTube

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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

    Steven Hassan, PhD · at 9:39

    Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan, PhD is a well-known psychological guide offering strategies for protection, intervention, and recovery from destructive religious and commercial cults.

    Discussed
    “you outline in the book cult mind control that you have many books but the one I'm referring to is called mind control”
    Where to get it
  2. Coercive Persuasion

    Edgar H. Schein · at 19:39

    Discussed
    “I read a 1961 book all course of persuasion by Edgar Schein who is one of the people with robert jay lifton”
    Where to get it
  3. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

    American Psychiatric Association · at 21:18

    The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, serves as the standard classification and diagnostic tool used by mental health professionals to identify and categorize psychiatric conditions.

    Discussed
    “are you familiar with the diagnostic Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association the dsm-5 kind of I know what it is anyway it's it's a book of listed listings”
    Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Cult of Mac
“and I'm by the way in a book called The Cult of Mac and yeah sure and when the guy asked to interview me”
Own book Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
“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”
Own book Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
“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”
Passing Animal Farm
“I was educated books like Animal Farm in 1984 before I was in the cult”
Passing 1984
“I was educated books like Animal Farm in 1984 before I was in the cult”