Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Mental Health Crises Inside Authoritarian Cults

Shunning, suicidality, and the closed loop that keeps people from help

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Sep 23, 2026
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Lee Marsh, a former Jehovah’s Witness, a retired Canadian counselor and president of Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses, spent years inside an abusive marriage, one she was coerced to stay in. She had been sexually abused as a child — first by her father, later by her mother’s partner — and both times the matter was handled by elders at her Ki…

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