This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states, terrorist groups and cults, as well as in controlling personal relationships. Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults and totalitarian systems, Stein's book defines and analyses the common identifiable traits that underlie these groups, emphasizing the importance of maintaining open yet supportive personal networks. Using original attachment theory-based research this book highlights the dangers of closed, isolating relationships and the closed belief systems that justify them, and demonstrates the psychological impact of these environments, ending with evidence-based recommendations to support an educational approach to awareness and prevention. Featuring a foreword by John Horgan, the new edition has been fully updated to include recent work on political extremism and radicalization and totalitarian systems, as well as the recent highly publicized NXIVM case. Terror, Love and Brainwashing, second edition is essential reading for professionals, policy makers, legal professionals, educators and cult survivors and their families themselves.

This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states, terrorist groups and cults, as well as in controlling personal relationships. Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults and totalitarian systems, Stein's book defines and analyses the common identifiable traits that underlie these groups, emphasizing the importance of maintaining open yet supportive personal networks. Using original attachment theory-based research this book highlights the dangers of closed, isolating relationships and the closed belief systems that justify them, and demonstrates the psychological impact of these environments, ending with evidence-based recommendations to support an educational approach to awareness and prevention. Featuring a foreword by John Horgan, the new edition has been fully updated to include recent work on political extremism and radicalization and totalitarian systems, as well as the recent highly publicized NXIVM case. Terror, Love and Brainwashing, second edition is essential reading for professionals, policy makers, legal professionals, educators and cult survivors and their families themselves.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Altere Deutsche Literatur, Mediavistik, Note: 1,7, Universitat Bayreuth, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Lanzelet, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bei Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven Lanzelet handelt es sich um ein stark kritisiertes und diskutiertes Stuck Artusdichtung, das fruhestens 1194 entstand und auf einer altfranzosischen Quelle basiert. Zatzikhoven wird allgemein gleichgesetzt mit dem Autor, da er dieses welshez bouch ins Deutsche ubersetzte. Uber seine Person ist bisher wenig bekannt. Seine erste Erwahnung fand er in einer Urkunde von St. Galler 1214, in der er als ein Dorfpfarrer von Lommis bei Zezikon bezeichnet wird. Nach einer Ausfuhrung uber den aktuellen Forschungsgegenstand folgt eine pragnante Begriffsklarung uber die Thematik des hofischen Verhaltens sowie eine Darstellung einiger grundlegender Informationen uber die Erziehung Lanzelets im Reich der merfeine, die dem Rezipienten als Ausgangspunkt fur die darauffolgende detaillierte Analyse der einzelnen Minneszenen dienen soll. An dieser Stelle sei darauf hingewiesen, dass die Untersuchung sich nicht auf die Funktion der einzelnen Episoden im gesamten Werk bezieht, sondern spezifisch die Entwicklung des hofischen Verhalten Lanzelets in Bezug zu dessen Minneszenen eruiert. Es wird ein Vergleich angestrebt, der den Beginn der Reise des Helden mit dem Verlassen des Feenreichs bis zu der Minnegemeinschaft mit der Konigin von Pluris einbezieht.