Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

The Anatomy of Undue Influence:

Scientific Study and Elsevier Journal Article

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Apr 25, 2019
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This is my first peer-reviewed academic journal article. Its genesis began when I gave a talk entitled, “The anatomy of undue influence used by terrorist cults and traffickers to induce helplessness and trauma, so creating false identities” at the prestigious 2017 Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health in Prague. I blogged about it here. This July, I will be attending the next Congress in Rome, Italy. I will be presenting a paper on a model of how to do a forensic evaluation for undue influence using Scheflin’s Social Influence Model. I intend to write another journal article on this critically important model.

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