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Sarah Berman is a journalist and the author of Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM.

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Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

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“Years later, NXIVM would implement a rule that no psychologists or psychiatrists were allowed to attend its courses, a rule shared with Scientology. When a former trainer asked Nancy about this, she said it was because psychologists “ruin the training for everybody else; all they want to do is argue.”
― Sarah Berman, Don't Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

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“He told one of his partners that he required sex constantly, or else spiritual energy might consume him to the point of death.”
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“EACH NEW CURRICULUM and company was an opportunity to bring in more money and people. All the successful ones followed a similar recruitment and pay structure, with 10 percent of dues going back to their “philosophical founder.”
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