ICCS06/39
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Steven Hassan, Freedom of Mind Resource Center inc. http://freedomofmind.com
Author of "Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (1988) and "Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves" (2000).
Destructive mind control issues: cults, deprogramming and SIA post 9-11
Systematic social influence processes target vulnerable populations and typically include deceptive recruitment and a step-by-step process influence program. They frequently use “altered states of consciousness” techniques that can often include hypnosis. A wide variety of techniques are used to subvert an individual’s identity in order to create a new pseudo-identity, often in the image of the leader or a hero.
A mind control model will be presented that demonstrates how the control of: behavior; information; thoughts and emotions are used by destructive cults (pyramid structured, authoritarian regimes) to make cloned identities, obedient and dependent to its authority.
Furthermore, the presentation will include how a complex system model called the Strategic Interaction Approach can be used to mobilize social networks to empower impacted individuals to reassert their own identity and independence and break free from the pseudo-identity.
Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert is a Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor and has developed a breakthrough approach to help loved ones rescue cult mind control victims. He is a former member of the Moon cult. Ex-cult members and others seek him out for specialized counseling to help them recover from symptoms other mental health professionals are not trained to address.
Hassan has been at the forefront of cult awareness activism since 1976 and is the author of two critically acclaimed books – Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (1988) and Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves (2000).
Hassan has 30 years of frontline activism exposing destructive cults, providing counseling and training, and appearing in major media including 60 Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Larry King Live, and The O’Reilly Factor.
Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), June 25-30, 2006; Boston, MA
ICCS06 Conference Program
Hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
