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Cults & Cult Leaders - Talk by Alexandra Stein, PhD

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Channel: Talk Beliefs · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Cult expert & author, Alexandra Stein, PhD, at the Reason Coffee Shop and Bookstore, Watford, Hertfordshire, UK. Alexandra answers questions from the audience as well as sharing frightening revelations from her own past trapped in an oppressive  & highly-controlling cult called 'The O'.

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.

TalkBeliefs in association with the Reason Coffee Shop and Bookstore presents Alexandra on the release of her latest book on cults: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems, which focuses on how charismatic cult leaders target social attachments (such as family) to seduce and control potential followers.
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Alexandra offers cult recovery counselling & is contactable through her website (see below)

Terror, Love & Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein: 
Amazon.co.uk: http://amzn.to/2uury4C (affiliate link)
Routledge.com http://bit.ly/2fBBS5K
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Alexandra Stein, Ph.D - Main Website:
http://www.alexandrastein.com/

Course: The Social Psychology Of Cults And Totalitarianism
http://bit.ly/1LudjCJ (NEW courses coming 2017!)

Follow Alexandra on Twitter: @alexandraistein

Cults & Brainwashing - 2015 Alexandra Stein TalkBeliefs  interview:  http://bit.ly/2fBAOyV

ALSO BY ALEXANDRA STEIN:
Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult by Alexandra Stein 
http://amzn.to/2vrAhWI (affiliate link)
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Thank you to Neal Emery of Reason Coffee Shop & Bookstore for his kind permission to use the premises for this interview
http://bit.ly/2aeBhGw

Follow Reason Coffee Shop & Bookstore on Twitter!: @ReasonCoffeeShp

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