Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

ISBN-13: 9780367467715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 302 str.

U Birkbeck Alexandra (Department of Psychological Sciences

Opis

This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states, terrorist groups and cults, as well as in controlling personal relationships.

O autorze

Alexandra Stein is a social psychologist and visiting research fellow at London South Bank University (UK). She lectures and writes on cults and totalitarianism. As a young woman she was a member of a political cult, an experience she documented in her first book, Inside Out.