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	Talk:Deprogramming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Proponents of deprogramming often have downplayed its coercive aspects, decribing the sessions as involving "counseling".
		Opponents of deprogramming have collected 100s of sworn depositions from people who swore that they were captured by surprise and taken by force to undisclosed locations and prevented from contacting friends, lawyers or their own doctors.
		The techniques of deprogramming and exit counseling are exactly the same, with the only difference being the degree of legal and physical compulsion used on the target.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Deprogramming (2208 words)

	From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation
		Deprogramming was controversial because it involved forcing a group member to listen to people relate information not available in the cults.
		In deprogramming, group members were sometimes abducted from the street; although more commonly they were simply prevented from leaving their homes or a vacation cabin or motel.
		Deprogramming often succeeded in extricating the family member from the cult; nevertheless it failed more often than many realized and sometimes lawsuits were filed against parents and deprogrammers.
	hometown.aol.com /carol2180/deprogra.htm (1550 words)

	Deprogramming Study Summary (EPA 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the early deprogramming period (Days 1 and 2), the deprogramming was clearly focused on Ken, with most conversation flowing to and from Ken and the various deprogrammers present.
		Deprogramming as teaching : The single most prevalent activity during this deprogramming was the imparting and discussion of three specialized content areas: facts about ISKCON, about destructive cults in general, and about "mind control." Therefore, Ken's deprogramming was an educational activity in which the deprogrammers served as instructors and Ken as an informed student.
		In Ken's deprogramming, the barrier between the precult self and the cult "double" seemed to be removed, and the deprogrammee began to feel "normal" guilt (his apology to his mother is an example of the resurgence of normal guilt): His conscience was reclaimed by his "old" self.
	users.snip.net /~drsteve/Articles/deprogramming.htm (4015 words)

	Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants
		Although initially the term deprogramming encompassed interventions that were voluntary (the cult member was free to leave at any time) and involuntary (restraint was used for at least part of the time), in time the term came to refer primarily to involuntary interventions.
		Deprogramming was controversial because it involved forcing a cult member to listen to people relate information not available in the cults.
		Deprogramming was the process of countering the cults' programming; the process often meant taking adult children off the street or detaining them until they listened to a detailed critique of the cultic group.
	members.aol.com /carol2180/ethical.htm (2996 words)

	^ Langone, Michael: "Deprogramming Ethics" - Cult Observer 10(4), 1993
		Because deprogramming had come to be associated with coercion and confinement and because it so often worked (about two-thirds of the time), it caused quite a controversy.
		Deprogramming, especially when it fails, entails considerable legal and psychological risk (e.g., a permanent alienation of the cultist from his or her family).
		Obviously, with regard to deprogramming the central question is whether the evil to be countered is terrible enough to mitigate the culpability of the coercion.
	www.csj.org /pubs_co/guestcolumn/coguest104.htm (2090 words)

	Deprogramming - religious cults, sects and movements
		In this context, efforst at ''deprogramming'' emerged, which were early attempts to deal with what appeared to be a type of brainwashing used by the groups on their members.
		Over time, as cults increasingly prevented outsiders, including families, from having access to members, deprogramming began to involve the actual abduction and forcible detention of the cult member in a locked room at home or in a motel or in whatever localed the deprogramming was taking place.
		Deprogramming has been replaced by a more respectful approach, which is educational in nature, more professional in delivery, more effective in outcome and, because it is voluntary, generally nontraumatizing.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /d22.html (1140 words)

	Deprogramming
		The goal of voluntary deprogramming is the same as involuntary deprogramming-- to "talk people out" of their new faith commitment.
		Thus, voluntary deprogramming may vary from coercive-like to a much kinder, gentler, informal process from which the cult member may or may not elect to continue memberhip.
		Deprogramming is alive and well in America today, but most of it is ostensibly voluntary.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /lectures/leave_dpm.html (826 words)

	Deprogramming - The War of the Cults - Part 3
		Alexander explains that a deprogramming is successful "once they have admitted they have been deceived by their leaders and the group," which, with sufficient coercion, can invariably be accomplished.
		On the one hand, some of those who resist deprogramming return to their groups with heightened devotion, often well aware of the hold the deprogrammers were trying to break.
		Once deprogrammed, they stay deprogrammed, and sometimes, disturbingly, join the ranks of the deprogrammed with all the fervor that they once followed their prophets and gurus.
	bernie.cncfamily.com /acm/sage3.htm (1732 words)

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		Deprogramming is when you need to cope with it and/or undo it in order to be free from the cult.
		Deprogramming therefore means both addressing each personality part and at the same time seeing the part within a whole.
		Deprogramming is about alleviating or taking away the programming system depending upon what your immediate and long term needs and wants are.
	www.geocities.com /australiarass/Deprogramming.html (4116 words)

	Deprogramming Falun Gong Members
		Because the term "deprogramming" is used when an element of coercion exists, whereas Exit-counseling is used when the process is voluntary.
		Anti-cultists sometimes use the word "deprogramming" indifferently to refer to the forcible process or the voluntary one, but outside observers are careful to make the distinction.
		Ironically, deprogramming could very well be applied to the Communists themselves, except that it would be against the most basic human rights to forcibly do so in the first place, and therefore no human rights activists would engage in this.
	bernie.cncfamily.com /acm/falun_gong_deprogramming.htm (2101 words)

	Rick Ross: Expert Consultant and Intervention Specialist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Deprogramming is actually a discussion, a dialogue offering illustrations and detailed descriptions of how people can be controlled through a process of personal manipulation.
		However, ironically most "deprogramming" was done on a voluntary basis historically, but there were many dramatic and sensational cases (often reported by the media and/or featured by Hollywood) that were done involuntarily due to extreme circumstances.
		Chroniclers of the history of deprogramming and impact of cults Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman advise that criminal prosecutions and civil suits charging deprogrammers and sometimes the parents of cult victims with kidnapping and false imprisonment, "brought a global chill.
	www.rickross.com /prep_faq.html (4414 words)

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		They sometimes succeeded in persuading their children to leave the groups, and the term "deprogramming" was used to describe the process of countering the cults' "programming." Partly because of these successes, the cults' antagonism toward parents hardened.
		Gradually, the term "exit counseling" replaced "voluntary deprogramming." (Some exit counselors prefer the term "cult education consultant," but that term has not as yet caught on.) Today, there are many exit counselings and few deprogrammings.
		Families should remember that they may have to demonstrate that the deprogramming was _necessary,_ not merely that the cult is harmful.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0121a.txt (2252 words)

	Deprogramming and Exit-Counseling
		Deprogramming gained notoriety back in the seventies through such figures as Ted Patrick, a short and stocky fl man who set out to probe the underground world of religious cults in order to free young people who were caught up in the clutches of deceptive organizations.
		Deprogramming generally involves abduction or isolation from the cult.
		The deprogramming process is more a freeing up of the person to once again use their mind and to reflect and think and reason and to trust their own experiences." --from a 1979 TV show, Thy Will Be Done.
	www.freeminds.org /psych/deprog.htm (3461 words)

	The Twelve Tribes : Thomas White's Deprogramming Story: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was the most involved family member the first few weeks of the deprogramming — but never around for the ugly side of things — the deprogrammer's bizarre tactics.
		She told me about ten years ago that she was not personally involved in the decision to deprogram me but had regrets because not only was I still in the community (which she at best is just resigned to) but that it caused an almost -total shutdown of communication on both sides.
		He said they hired Ted Patrick to deprogram him and he had obviously received Ted's spirit — he lived to take revenge on "cults." Carol said she had been in some offbeat Christian cult down south with several others who were following some men around.
	www.twelvetribes.com /controversies/deprogramthomaswhite.html (1753 words)

	Releasing the Bonds book about cult groups and mind control by Steven Hassan
		Deprogramming is essentially a content-oriented persuasion approach that sometimes involves abduction and typically involves forced detention.
		The timing of the deprogramming is not based on the best interests of the cult member but, typically, at the convenience of family members and the deprogrammer.
		Deprogramming does not typically involve counseling family members beforehand, so it doesn't address the damage done to them by the whole cult experience.
	www.freedomofmind.com /resourcecenter/books/rtb3.htm (4820 words)

	Deprogramming Seeks a New Identity
		The role of coercive deprogramming in the anticult movement has been studied sociologically and historically as well as internationally and from a civil liberties perspective.
		But no one was more aware of these irregularities than the deprogramming operatives themselves, as their efforts to achieve recognition as professional within the mental health therapeutic community attest.
		One could argue that terms like “exit counseling” or “intervention”; muddy the water since the underlying presupposition (as in deprogramming) remains that the purpose of the activity is to “exit” member from their affiliation with NRMs rather than to assess those affiliation in a neutral fashion.
	www.cesnur.org /2003/shupe_darnell.htm (2465 words)

	Cult Conversion, Deprogramming, and the Triune Brain - TGS HiddenMysteries reptilian Agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In exit counseling, which has largely supplanted deprogramming, the emphasis is on information, again in an effort to reactivate the cult member's critical thinking abilities.
		Deprogramming, on the other hand, is designed to stimulate the neocortex.
		Ideally, the result of deprogramming and counseling is a reintegration of all parts of the brain.
	www.reptilianagenda.com /research/r121504a.shtml (2188 words)

	Articles from the January 1994 Unification News
		Essentially deprogramming involves the involuntary abduction of a member of a new religious movement (NRM) to a remote location where they are subjected to a lengthy and intense "faith breaking" program.
		She kidnapped and subjected her daughter to involuntary deprogramming by obtaining an illegal conservatorship order issued by a judge in Texas on the basis of an affidavit signed by a doctor who had never even examined her daughter.
		During a deprogramming or exit counseling session, a person's experience as a member of a NRM is re-defined by their "exit counselor" in strictly negative terms.
	www.tparents.org /UNews/unws9401/IL-SEN.htm (2171 words)

	CESNUR - Appendix A - Sampler of Deprogramming Cases
		In the early 1980s deprogrammer TED PATRICK was almost hired by a Cincinnati couple, Marita and William Riethmuller, to deprogram their 20 year-old daughter Stephanie whom they feared was being influenced into becoming a lesbian by a female apartment roommate.
		One of them told her that each participant in the deprogramming carried enough cash to escape by airplane in the event police were notified.
		He was told in the coldest words that he would not be set free until the deprogramming was concluded, which in practical terms meant he had to renounce the Pentecostal faith and agree to leave the Life Tabernacle Church.
	www.cesnur.org /2001/CAN/appendix_A.htm (3048 words)

	Culteducation.com: Ethical Standards
		One group of cult intervention professionals points out that families often based decisions to undertake involuntary deprogramming upon "the fact that in some groups, members were zealously protected from parents, often having their names changed and moved from locations to location." This is still sadly true today.
		Essentially, "voluntary deprogramming" is now known by many euphemisms, but remains largely the same process described by Conway and Siegelman in their seminal book Snapping first published in 1978.
		Conway and Siegelman advise in their second edition of Snapping that, "methods of voluntary deprogramming and exit counseling, while far less controversial and much safer from a legal standpoint, prompted fewer cult members to experience a sudden 'snapping out' of their controlled states of mind.
	www.culteducation.com /standards.html (3659 words)

	Nielsen's Psyc of Religion: Cult Deprogramming Verdict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Four of the people involved with the deprogramming were charged with kidnapping.
		Coelho and Cox testified that they feared for the safety of Collins-Macchio and Collins- Macchio's children, based upon their belief that Collins-Macchio would take the children and move to a dangerous bomb shelter in Montana that was owned by Collins-Macchio's church.
		Collins-Macchio responded to these interrogations, stating that it was the teachings that she followed, and not a person or place that she followed.
	www.psywww.com /psyrelig/deprog.htm (3517 words)

	Hypnotherapy and Deprogramming -- Child Predators and Mind Control
		"Deprogramming" the mind is perhaps the most important part of hypnotherapy.
		Hence, "deprogramming" in hypnotherapy is not the same thing as "reprogramming" or programming into the person new beliefs.
		Rather, "deprogramming" is a process that frees the individual from prior programming so he or she is free to think through values and beliefs.
	www.saferchildren.net /papers/11.html (550 words)

	Cult awareness conference courts protest, debate
		The conference provided information on how families of cult members can hire psychologists affiliated with the American Family Foundation to reclaim their loved ones through a psychological process called "thought reform" -- a concept that has spawned animosity among groups like the Church of Scientology.
		Deprogramming was an early method of converting cult members back into mainstream society by oftentimes kidnapping, scaring and even beating members.
		Used most heavily during the mid-'70s, deprogramming has been a sore spot for the Church of Scientology and other groups deemed "cults" since.
	www.tolc.org /affconf.htm (1141 words)

	Deprogramming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Practitioners of Deprogramming can attempt to undo the damage inflicted upon a subject by brainwashing.
		Deprogrammers are able to diffuse self-harm and self-destruct commands, as well as neutralize introjects.
		The time required for a full deprogramming depends on how long and to what intensity the victim was brainwashed.
	www.gaianar.com /RFP/Noncombat/deprogramming.htm (163 words)

	When Introvigne's friends were into 'deprogramming'
		The deprogramming was followed by a trial against Braibanti, accused of plagio, and sentenced by what was certainly quite a prejudiced court of Catholics and anti-Communists.
		The fascinating aspect of the case is that Agostino Sanfratello founded Alleanza Cattolica in the wake of the trial - the very movement Introvigne is proud to be a leader of was founded on an episode of deprogramming.
		During the Braibanti trial, the opposite sides were very clearly drawn: on the one hand, conservative, anti-Communist Catholics, on the other hand the very "secular humanists" Introvigne claims stand for deprogramming.
	www.kelebekler.com /cesnur/storia/gb08.htm (550 words)

	Deprogramming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rather than face what might hurt us when we discover it, we choose denial - and deny even that we are hurt most of all by this approach to difficult problems in life.
		What we propose is an approach called deprogramming in which we must force ourselves to become aware of what has dropped below the scope of our conscious reflection, running as our automatic programming while we are oblivious to its functioning.
		After we become aware, we can evaluate how we operate in an effort to deprogram our detrimental patterns so that we may become healthy and strong again.
	www.deprogramming.com (313 words)

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