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Terror, love and brainwashing : attachment in cults and totalitarian systems / Alexandra Stein.

Author/creator Stein, Alexandra author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionviii, 235 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction -- The overthrow of the rulers of the mind -- Fear: it's screamingly obvious -- Recruitment : the accidental extremist -- Totalist indoctrination : isolation in a crowded place -- Family and friends : not as close as chairman Mao -- The will of the fuehrer is the party's law : totalist leaders and the structures they create -- Secrets and lies : ideology and language in totalist systems -- From the inside out -- Deployable, but not manchurian : it's a human thing -- The flute player : what should an open society do? -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A The group attachment interview -- Appendix B Eye-level versus abusive, authoritarian relationships.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2016027933
ISBN9781138677951 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN1138677957 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN9781138677975 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN1138677973 paperback alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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Joyner General Stacks BF633 .S84 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold