Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Newsletter: Could Your Organization Become Unhealthy?

How Any Gathering of Humans Can Become Authoritarian - and How to Reverse the Process!

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Aug 18, 2026
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We are all social beings; forming groups comes naturally to us. Unfortunately, without clear guidelines, some of the groups we expect to be the healthiest can slip into unhealthy, authoritarian patterns of behavior. It can seem like a natural process. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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