Deprogramming in a sentence

Parents and law enforcement turned to Patrick to save indoctrinated cult members, and the notorious Patrick employed kidnapping and forced captivity to make his "deprogramming" stick.

Two of them are sociological and they require the deprogramming of people from cycles they do not want to be deprogrammed from.

And we have to admit that we have met former members who have related to us their deprogramming experience – several of handcuffs, weapons wielded and sexual abuse.

But with deprogramming, judges routinely granted parents legal authority over their adult children without a hearing.

Deprogramming typically costs $10,000 or more, mainly because of the expense of a security team.

For deprogramming to work, the victim must be convinced that they joined a religious group against their will.

Frequently, however, the initial deprogramming only last a few days.

Government agencies have at times been aware and have taken part in deprogramming to enforce official views of correct beliefs and behaviors.

He states that deprogramming destroys a person's identity and is likely to create permanent anxiety about freedom of choice and leave the deprogrammed subject dependent upon the guidance and advice of others.

Legal scholar Dean M. Kelley called deprogramming "protracted spiritual gang-rape".

Nevertheless, deprogramming helped to free many individuals held captive to destructive cults at a time when other alternatives did not seem viable.

Numerous testimonies by those who were subjected to a deprogramming describe how they were threatened with a gun, beaten, denied sleep and food and/or sexually assaulted.

Psychology Press, 24 July 2003 p. 28 Eileen Barker criticizes mind control theories because they function to justify costly interventions such as deprogramming or exit counseling.

Referral and kickback system Anti-cult groups play a central role in maintaining the underground network of communications, referrals, transportation, and housing necessary for continued deprogramming.

Sylvia Buford, an associate of Ted Patrick who has assisted him on many deprogrammings, described five stages of deprogramming: (Stoner, C., & Parke, J. (1977).

The deprogramming case observed by Dubrow-Eichel did not include any violence.

The deprogramming process begins with abduction.

The essence of deprogramming was to physically abduct the convert, isolate him and physically restrain him, and barrage him with continuous arguments and attacks against his new religion, threatening to hold him forever until he agreed to leave it.

These narratives provide a rationale for a "hostage-rescue" motif, in which cults are likened to POW camps and deprogramming as heroic hostage rescue efforts.

Violence The deprogramming accounts vary widely regarding the use of force, with the most dramatic accounts coming from deprogrammed people who returned to the group.