Steven Hassan - Cult Mind Control Exit-Counseling and the SIA (2003)

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.

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[lazyfreedom98]

The whole of western capitalism is a death slave cult . . . you tube is a fraud and the programing a trap.

[Jim Jesus]

And yet, here you are.

[Jim Jesus]

Just so we're clear: Antisemitic drivel will not be accepted here.

[slwslw09]

I had a thought, Damn.sorry.lol...abusive people are drawn together....kinda like a magnet and most don't even know it's happening..they keep beating themselves up with question like why does this keep happening to me.we see it in how abused wives keep returning to the abusive husband or if not the husband, then others that are abusive. I think that people who start cults are able to voluntarily tap into that dysfunctional (emotional) part of people in order to draw them in.

[Jim Jesus]

Cults prey on smart people who just moved to a new area, broke up with a significant other, lost their career...etc. and are having momentary lapses in judgement and stay along because of thought reform techniques. Those who engage in abusive relationship recidivism aren't similar at all.

[Samnang Horn]

I just now realizing this truth and returning to my family and independence. I'm out the cult of mormonism. Thanks!

[MarioBrothaYT]

That person that gave you a thumbs down is a cultist.

[defenestrated121]

Okay, so what if the members are your parents, and they, like me, were born into it?

[amally22]

what about the anti-muslim comments?

[LauraBeth Villarreal]

it was a private "cult" known as Four Winds Ministries"

[marc t]

nice. what cult was this?  glad you're out.

[Jim Jesus]

MK-Ultra was a failure. That form of mind control doesn't exist, it's all Hollywood and paranoid conspiracy nuttery.

[Jim Jesus]

No one cares about your antisemitic garbage. Bye. 

[Mirani2]

My friend is in the Neocatechumenal Way cult, and I am afraid it will damage him. I will not give up on trying to get him out. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to talk to a cult member who has probably been taught to hate you?

He is a long distance friend, so we have not met, but we were really close.