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	Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2017 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is, in fact, a healthy response to atomization to seek to join up with others. As humans we are social animals. We have a fundamental need to join with others to seek solutions to the problems of survival. The danger arises if, in that effort, one encounters a totalist group that seeks to isolate and control its members - then one's own survival, and potentially that of others, is put at the gravest risk.”
― Alexandra Stein, Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

tags: cults, psychology, sociology

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“[A] public realm that works in our fragmented society [is] one that does not yearn for an idealized past and a closed vision of community, but looks forward to an open, welcoming, safe and diverse, pluralist view of community life where children are valued, universal human rights are valued and varied cultural expressions that respect these rights are valued.”
― Alexandra Stein, Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

tags: cults, psychology, sociology

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“The corollary of the power of social pressure to conform within a group is that when just one person refuses to go along and presents another view, others then are able to move away from the initial group pressure.”
― Alexandra Stein, Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

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