Cults: Dr. Margaret Singer Speaks at Conference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Singer

Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, (1921--2003) was a clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.

Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing and coercive persuasion. Singer performed research at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, the United States Air Force and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received many awards for her work, including the Leo J. Ryan Memorial Award, the Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and both the Hofheimer Prize and the Stanley R. Dean Award from the American College of Psychiatrists.

In the 1960s she began to study the nature of cults and mind control and served on the board of the American Family Foundation. She is the author of the book Cults in Our Midst. She gave expert testimony in several cult-related trials, including the 1976 trial of Patty Hearst, who had previously been kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the 1977 hearing for five members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

In 1987, as head of the APA taskforce on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control for the American Psychological Association, Singer oversaw the production of a report that was later rejected by the APA's Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology. Thereafter, Singer's expert testimony in four subsequent cases was not accepted. In 1992 she sued the APA for "defamation, frauds, aiding and abetting and conspiracy", but in 1994 she lost.

Articles in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times reported complaints by Singer and her family that she had been enduring harassment and death threats due to her "battles" with the cults.

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[Ohmythatspainful]

@sculptoro Thank you. Glad someone noticed it :-)

[sculptoro]

@Ohmythatspainful

Thats a damn good statement.

[sjbraden]

Margaret Singer was an idiot. She made a career off the idea that people in "cults" aren't responsible for their behavior they were "brainwashed". And when the APA shot down her crackpot self-serving theories, she sued them for defamation and lost (hmmm, who else do we know resorts to litigation against critical outsiders).

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[ElectroPaganAnon]

A little remix of Margaret Singer's wise words: /watch?v=fnTR-nsR2LU

[wellthatsnotenough]

Thank You for all your time and energy to help people be aware and educate

them  about Cults and there effects on Society.

[Ohmythatspainful]

@LordBalto I've read the Bhagavad-Gita and it confuses me at times; the Karma thing, etc... From what I understand, you are to live your life focusing exclusively on the Supreme Personality of Godhead; your goal is Krishna Consciousness, ignoring all material goods and earthly things, *however*, another integral part of the whole process is the goal of reincarnating as a human of higher social standing (material wealth)... How in the name of Hubbard do you work that shit out in your head?

[Ohmythatspainful]

Yes, this is most excellent!

[Kaandorpius]

55:22 <--- CAN?

Was this before, during, or after the SoC infiltration?

[Kaandorpius]

Look up... Margaret T. Singers conditions for mind-control. A short but very clear overview, excellent reading material.

[shadowjsw]

hey, do you have a version with left and right sound? i thought the sound was messed up because i cant hear anything from my right ear bud