- Brainwashing, Controversial literature, Cults, Persuasion (Psychology)
Margaret Thaler Singer calls on her nearly fifty years of expertise to write the definitive book on cults. Anyone--no matter what age or income level--could be susceptible to the covert and seductive nature of a cult.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and spare.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Thaler Singer
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 381
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass Publishers, Jossey-Bass
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780787902667
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“Twice in less than fifteen years we have been shown the deadly ends to which cult followers can be led.”
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