Coercive Control

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Response to Benjamin Zeller’s review: The Cult of Trump? What “Cult Rhetoric” Actually Reveals

Students are frequently disciplined these days for cut-and-pasting paragraphs from the Internet rather than properly responding to their tutors’ questions. A similar habit is found among academics who speak about “brainwashing” and “cults”. Rather than reading and reviewing Steven Hassan’s new book, Professor Zeller has cut-and-pasted ideas that have been floated repeatedly over the last several decades.

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Professor Alan Scheflin’s Social Influence Model (SIM)

– as approved by Professor Scheflin. Taken from Jon Atack’s Opening Our Minds, avoiding abusive relationships and authoritarian groups (Trentvalley ltd, Colchester, 2021) with permission from the author. Law Professor Alan W. Scheflin coined the phrase The Myth of the Unmalleable Mind which is the basic belief that we are in control of our own

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