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Cult Formation - 0 views

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  • ideological totalism,
  • Cults can be identified by three characteristics: a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose their power; a process I call coercive persuasion or thought reform; economic, sexual, and other exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
  • milieu control: the control of all communication within a given environment. In such an environment individual autonomy becomes a threat to the group. There is an attempt to manage an individual's inner communication. Milieu control is maintained and expressed by intense group process, continuous psychological pressure, and isolation by geographical distance, unavailability of transportation, or even physical restraint. Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events such as seminars, lectures and encounters which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically.
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  • Intense milieu control can contribute to a dramatic change of identity which I call doubling: the formation of a second self which lives side by side with the former one, often for a considerable time. When the milieu control is lifted, elements of the earlier self may be reasserted.
  • Three further aspects of ideological totalism are "sacred science," "loading of the language," and the principle of "doctrine over person."
  • Perhaps the most significant characteristic of totalistic movements is what I ca
  • Sacred science is important because a claim of being scientific is often needed to gain plausibility and influence in the modern age.
  • language
  • The principle of doctrine over person' is invoked when cult members sense a conflict between what they are experiencing and what dogma says they should experience.
  • The term loading the language' refers to literalism and a tendency to deify words or images.
  • l "dispensing of existence." Those who have not seen the light and embraced the truth are wedded to evil, tainted, and therefore in some sense, usually metaphorical, lack the right to exist.
  • That is one reason why a cult member threatened with being cast into outer darkness may experience a fear of extinction or collapse.
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      History of the person
  • Totalism should always be considered within a specific historical context.
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CULT EXPERIENCE - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • negative characteristics exhibited by the former cult members studied, said Dr. Clark, are depression, guilt, fear, paranoia, slow speech, rigidity of facial expression and body posture, indifference to physical appearance, passivity and memory impairment.
  • The techniques of many cults fall under the general rubric of brainwashing
  • Dr. Singer, ''cult leaders and their trainers exert a systematic social influence that can produce great behavioral changes.''
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  • 'have taken techniques from the human-potential movement, from the encounter, sensitivitytraining and humanistic-psychology movements, and combined them with cult ideology and persuasive sales methods - and packaged them in various combinations.''
  • nationally is variously estimated at 300,000 to three million.
  • Dr. Singer estimates that there are 2,500 to 3,000 cults in the United States
  • United
  • Dr. Singer estimates that there are 2,500 to 3,000 cults in the United States
  • Whether or not a cult is destructive is determined by the morality of the cult leader and the nature of the leader's charismatic dream,
  • Not all cults are destructive, the researchers said, and many of those who join and remain in cults do so out of a sincere quest for religious connection.
  • Dr. Cath defined a cult as a group of people joined together by a common ideological system fostered by a charismatic leader
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      Temporal lobe epilepsy is a form of focal epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures.
  • ''the expectation is that they can transcend the imperfections and finitude of life.''
  • ''Often they set up a we-they philosophy: We have the truth and you do not.
  • ''Under the force of the conversion experience, people disappeared from their families and changed, sometimes after only a few days.''
  • More are male than female.
  • involves a vulnerable person
  • ''Cult recruiters frequent bus stations, airports, campuses, libraries, rallies, anywhere that unattached persons are likely to be passing through,''
  • Dr. Cath defined a cult as a group of people joined together by a common ideological system fostered by a charismatic leader
  • The symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy,'' said Dr. Clark, ''are similar to those seen or reported as resulting from cult conversions: increased irritability, loss of libido or altered sexual interest; ritualism, compulsive attention to detail, mystical states, humorlessness and sobriety, heightened paranoia.''
  • Dr. Cath said: ''Keeping devotees constantly fatigued, deprived of sensory input and suffering protein deprivation, working extremely long hours in street solicitation or in cult-owned businesses, engaging in monotonous chanting and rhythmical singing, may induce psychophysiological changes in the brain. The rhythmical movement of the body can lead to altered states of consciousness, and changes in the pressure or vibration pattern of the brain may affect the temporal lobe.''
  • ''cult-conversion syndrome'' represents an overload of the brain's ability to process information.
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Schizophrenia: causes, symptoms and treatments - Mental Health A-Z - Douglas Mental Hea... - 0 views

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symptoms statistics causes treatments violence

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      Statistic
  • In Canada, one in every one hundred people is diagnosed with schizophrenia
  • In Canada, one in every one hundred people is diagnosed with schizophrenia
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  • people
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      Symptoms of schizophrenia 
  • Researchers do not yet know what causes schizophrenia
  • combination of problems, including genetic vulnerability and environmental factors.
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    This site is credible because it is a mental institute with lots of experience with this mental illness.  There are many doctors and researchers who can add/update/correct the information on the site.   
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NIMH · Schizophrenia - 0 views

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symptoms diagnostics chances of development elimination addictions

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      Negative symptoms, more commonly found in women
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      Cases in adolescence.  Lots go unrecognized because of symptoms 
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      Biological predisposition can have an effect
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    This is credible because it is a government site.  Government websites usually give correct statistics and tend to not be bias when giving information like this.    This site gives lots of new information that could have been used and lots of information that was already used.
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