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	Steve Hassan's War On Cults - Unification News 2/97
		Steve Hassan says that he was prepared to commit murder, "absolutely." Or, if necessary, take a bullet in his own body and die a glorious death.
		Hassan believes Noelle's "prognosis is very good, but it's going to take a long time." Part of the problem for her and many others like her, he says, is that they have "been dealing with mental health professionals who are ignorant about cult mind-control issues." These clinicians "are often missing the obvious," he says.
		Hassan says the work he does exacts a "horrible" toll on his personal life, and while he remains firmly committed to it, he's not as "almost mindlessly" zealous as he admits he was when he began opposing the Unification Church two decades ago.
	www.tparents.org /UNews/unws9702/hassan.htm (2617 words)

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		Hassan included as part of his years of field experience in his application for his degree as a counselor (experience.html) the same years he otherwise admits to having committed "a number of forced deprogrammings/involuntary interventions." (
		Hassan continues to assert that religious "brainwashing" and "mind control" (with no accompanying pain/drugs/hypnosis) exist, despite the American Psychiatric Association's, the American Sociological Association's and the American Psychology Association's rejections of such theories.
		Hassan seems to have a problem coming to grips with acts he committed during his youth.
	www.cultawarenessnetwork.org /dbase/bios/hassanstory.html (343 words)

	Steven Hassan \| Religious Freedom Watch
		Another of Hassan’s victims, CK, signed an affidavit swearing that she was also held against her will by Hassan and his associates who confined her to a room without doorknobs and posted a guard to ensure that she could not escape.
		Hassan’s testimony in this case shows that he was charging $200 per hour for preparation and $1,500 per day for his “expert testimony” on new religions, yet he had never testified in court before and his only qualification was a night school degree in an unrelated field.
		Hassan continues to be an advocate for individuals such as Ted Patrick, a convicted criminal deprogrammer, despite Patrick’s convictions for violent criminal acts.
	www.religiousfreedomwatch.com /religious-experts/false-experts/steven-hassan (669 words)

	Qwika - Steven Hassan
		Hassan was himself recruited into the Unification Church in the 1970s, at the age of 19, while studying at Queens College, and spent over two years recruiting and indoctrinating new members, as well as fundraising, campaigning, and personally meeting with Sun Myung Moon.
		Hassan contends that cults recruit members through a three-step process which he refers to as "unfreezing," "changing," and "refreezing," respectively.
		Hassan says he spent one year assisting with deprogrammings before turning to less controversial methods.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/Steven_Hassan (912 words)

	Steve Hassan
		Hassan was an early advocate of exit counseling, and is the author of two books on the subject of "cults", and what he describes as their use of mind control, thought reform, and the psychology of influence in order to recruit and retain members.
		Hassan felt that this seminar gave him "a handle on techniques of mind control, and how to combat them." He spent "nearly two years studying NLP with everyone involved in its formulation and presentation." During this period, Hassan moved to Santa Cruz, California for an apprenticeship with Grinder.
		Hassan continued to study hypnosis and is a member of the The American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and the The International Society of Hypnosis.
	www.katrinapetsneedhelp.com /pets/Steve_Hassan (3172 words)

	The Spirit of Things: 5 February 2006 - Free Yourself from Mind Control
		Steve Hassan: Essentially, I had broken up with a girlfriend and was very depressed about it, but I should say that I was an English major, I wrote poetry and short stories, and grew up in a conservative Jewish family and had no interest in changing religions, or joining any other religion.
		Steve Hassan: Yes, basically the group believes that Adam and Eve were the original parents, and that Eve got seduced by Lucifer, and had sex with him, and then she seduced Adam, so in their belief system, the restoration of humanity is through a perfect man and a perfect woman, uniting and having perfect children.
		Steve Hassan: No, I don’t like rats either, but the point is that for her, just the image of a rat, or hearing a cartoon with a rat in it, would make her break out in a sweat and start hyperventilating.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/spirit/stories/s1559016.htm (5992 words)

	Those Who Cannot Remember -- 001
		Hassan would like that to happen to me. He would love to see the police pull my family out of my home and take me to a re-education camp so I can be deprogrammed and get my mind back.
		Hassan, Kemperman and Edwards are representative of this intense period where Rev. Moon had come to America and was speaking in every state and beginning his movement.
		Hassan and all those who want to use the force of government to stop those they feel have contempt for and are a threat to law and order and the precious freedoms given in our Bill of Rights, are doing the will of Satan.
	www.divineprinciple.com /1_apology/apology001.html (4111 words)

	Bambooweb: Steve Hassan
		Steven Alan Hassan or Steve Hassan is an author and self-proclaimed expert on "destructive cults" who left the Unification Church after breaking his leg in a car accident.
		Hassan styles himself a high-level leader of the church, but church officials report that he was only the assistant leader of one small congregation for less than a year.
		Hassan says that the Unification Church and numerous other religious groups and organizations recruit and victimize members through systematic deception, behavior modification, withholding of information, and emotionally intense persuasion techniques (such as the creation of phobias), which he collectively terms "mind control".
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/t/Steve_Hassan.html (478 words)

	Apology 1b
		Hassan and his ignorant friends haven't got a clue to what religion is and therefore make the same mistakes persecutors have done for thousands of years.
		Hassan and those who incite individuals to deprogram or the state to try to enact laws to regulate and abolish religions are the truly dangerous people.
		Hassan says he started out deprogramming members of the UC but saw the light and changed and now speaks against these "involuntary interventions." I guess it is all right for Steve to make mistakes when he starts building his business, but others cannot.
	members.tripod.com /~dpcopy/1_apology/apology1b.html (1454 words)

	Community -- Chapter 12e
		Steve Hassan would be carrying signs and imploring the King to put Bradford and the rest of the poor souls who blindly followed him to their death in Plymouth Plantation in jail.
		Hassan has no idea that there is a battle for people's minds from the diabolical feminists.
		Steve Hassan used violence in deprogramming people when he began his crusade of being a religious bigot.
	dpcopy1.tripod.com /1_community/community12e.html (2249 words)

	Amazon.ca: Combatting Cult Mind Control: Books: Steven Hassan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hassan was a Moonie for over two years, during which time he rose from recruit to Unification Church Manhattan NY main lecturer and Unification Church national headquarters assistant director.
		Hassan returned to college to study psychology, then developed his own 'exit counseling' techniques that rely on discussion rather than anxiety-creating confrontation to break a destructive cult's hold upon its members.
		Hassan describes how destructive cults attract, recruit, isolate and control their members, rewarding attitudes and behaviors approved by cult leaders and punishing attitudes and behaviors not approved by cult leaders.
	www.amazon.ca /Combatting-Cult-Control-Steven-Hassan/dp/1855380250 (1137 words)

	General interest programs on various cults
		"There are more members in cults today than at the time of Jonestown." Steve Hassan is one of the guests on this show about determining when a group is a cult.
		Steve Hassan appears on this show about the Moonies.
		Steve Allen and his son appear to discuss the son's involvement in this cult.
	www.xenutv.com /cults (423 words)

	Mind Control Tactics Of Alcoholics Anonymous
		Hassan's last four aspects of behavioral control are rewards and punishments for purposes of behavior modification, groupthink prevails over individualism, rigid rules, and a need for obedience and dependency.
		Hassan starts the list of criteria for thought control with the insistence that the members internalize the groups' doctrine as "truth," which includes fl and white thinking, good and evil, and the "us and them" ideology.
		When Hassan outlines the aspects of emotional control in the BITE model, he starts with the narrowing of a person's range of feelings, and the blame for all problems being placed on the individual rather than the group or leaders.
	www.geocities.com /drugsandalcoholinfo/webpagesandpapers/mindcontroltactics.htm (7756 words)

	Four components of mind control: Steve Hassan identified four components of mind control.
		Steve Hassan identified four components of mind control.
		Thought control, the second major component of mind control, includes indoctrinating members so thoroughly that they internalize the group doctrine, incorporate a new language system, and use thought-stopping techniques to keep their mind "centered." In order to be a good member, a person must learn to manipulate his own thought processes.
		Hassan may ridicule attempts to hold to one's faith in the face of negativism with terms like "thought stopping," but in so doing it appears that he also ridicules all those whose faith has allowed them to overcome sin and negativism.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/101_fun_stuff/47502/324324 (3437 words)

	Steven Hassan - Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hassan falsely presents himself as an "expert" on religions, basing his theories on the work of psychologist Margaret Singer whose theories have been rejected as unscientific by the American Psychological Association and by numerous U.S. Courts.
		Hassan's testimony in this case shows that he was charging $200 per hour for preparation and $1,500 per day for his "expert testimony" on new religions, yet he had never testified in court before and his only qualification was a night school degree in an unrelated field.
		Hassan has allied himself with various organizations which engage in violent anti-religious activities.
	www.religiousfreedomwatch.org.uk /false_exp/hassan3.html (175 words)

	Steve Hassan
		Steve Hassan is a former deprogrammer turned exit counselor.
		He claims that the Unification Church recruits and victimizes members through mind control.
		official home page (http://www.freedomofmind.com/) - Hassan offers "access to resources vital to understanding how destructive cults work."
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Steve_Hassan.html (39 words)

	Mental Health Counselor Steven A. Hassan Celebrates 30 Years of Cult Counseling
		Hassan remains at the forefront of cult awareness activism, exposing destructive cults, providing counseling and training, and appearing in major media including 60 Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Larry King Live, and The O’Reilly Factor.
		Dismayed with this tactic and its often poor results, Steve Hassan developed the Strategic Interaction Approach (SAI), which helps friends and family members to become key people in a cult victim's support network.
		Steve Hassan's Freedom Of Mind web site [http://www.freedomofmind.com is a resource center for information about coercive tactics, destructive groups, abusive relationships, and cult mind control.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/04/prweb375828.htm (514 words)

	ICCS06/39 - NECSIWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert is a Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor and has developed a breakthrough approach to help loved ones rescue cult mind control victims.
		Hassan has been at the forefront of cult awareness activism since 1976 and is the author of two critically acclaimed books – Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (1988) and Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves (2000).
		Hassan has 30 years of frontline activism exposing destructive cults, providing counseling and training, and appearing in major media including 60 Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Larry King Live, and The O’Reilly Factor.
	necsi.org /community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06/39 (370 words)

	The Cult Controversy: part two
		It is my belief that Hassan has recognized some of the concepts and terms that are part of Jehovah's Witnesses culture and which he as seen present in some Bible-based cults, such terms as "the last days," "armageddon," "the truth," "governing body" etc., and made the illogical connection between these cults and the Witnesses.
		Hassan is notable because he is one of the few anti-cult therapist-experts that was at one time a high-level member of the Moonies (Unification Church), a group often called a cult.
		Hassan's focus is with helping people and dealing with persons in cults or who have left them, but defining cults and more importantly, making an objective assessment about whether a group is or is not a cult is not his expertise or within his education and training.
	www.jehovahs-witnesses.info /notacult2.html (4494 words)

	Steven Alan Hassan, cult expert, mind control therapist, and author of Release The Bonds: Empowering People to Think ...
		"Steve Hassan is a compelling spokesman on the topic of cult mind control which encompasses issues of human identity and our innate psychological vulnerabilities and dissociation and its relationship to mind control, all of which are of innate interest to mental health professionals.
		Steve's letter (along with supporting documents), Refuting the Disinformation Attacks Put Forth by Destructive Cults and their Agents.
		The Freedom of Mind Resource Center Inc. was established by cult expert Steve Hassan.
	www.freedomofmind.com /stevehassan/mhpros (582 words)

	Our Tanzania Travel Diary - June 6-7
		Hassan points out that if the male we saw is the only one the pride has, the cubs' chances of survival are slim.
		Hassan thought they were a mating pair, so we waited to see if anything happened.
		Hassan kept saying, "They’re going to kill the baby zebra." As exciting as it was to possibly see a kill in action, we were obviously rooting for the zebra.
	www.winogradsky.com /personal/tanz/diary6.shtml (1689 words)

	CESNUR uses public funds for a study labelling all its critics as 'extreme terrorists'
		Recently, Steve Hassan, the toughest of all anti-cultists, asked Introvigne whether he too was on CESNUR's terrorist list.
		Introvigne apparently answered that he wasn't, since Hassan did not fit into his definition of a terrorist.
		Steve Hassan, to use Introvigne's loaded language, is an "apostate", a former deprogrammer, a cult critic who attacks the "deed, not the creed", a believer in "mind control" and who stands for every idea Introvigne has been fighting against over the last 15 years.
	www.kelebekler.com /cesnur/terror/gb10.htm (558 words)

	A Onetime Moonie Helps Free Cultists From Mental Bonds - Without Force
		Hassan, who spoke to the Forward during an interview from his office in Somerville, Mass., described this encounter as the beginning of his journey into the world of cults.
		Hassan said he dropped out of college, quit his job, isolated himself from his friends and family, and began recruiting on behalf of the Unification Church.
		Although Hassan said he was thankful to have escaped the cult, he said he knew then that there had to be a better way.
	www.rickross.com /reference/unif/unif221.html (1151 words)

	Steve Hassan définit une approche pour oeuvrer auprès des terroristes emprisonnés
		Hassan, qui a conseillé et soutenu des membres de sectes pendant 25 ans, a aidé des milliers de personnes qui avaient été contrôlées aussi efficacement que les terroristes, et ce en utilisant des méthodes innovatrices.
		Hassan, who has been counseling cult members for 25 years, has helped thousands of people who have been mind controlled as effectively as the terrorists using innovative methods.
		Such methods might be applied not just to jailed terrorists but to the people of countries where terrorists have held swayas a way of counseling them out of terrorist groups, and out of their America-is-evil mindset.
	pages.globetrotter.net /mleblank/retablissenent/terrosristeapp.html (1193 words)

	Cult information from cult expert Steve Hassan
		Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert, is the Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor who has developed the breakthrough approach to help loved ones rescue cult mind control victims.
		Steve has been at the forefront of cult awareness activism since 1976 and is the author of two critically acclaimed books – Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (1988) and Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves (2000).
		Steve Hassan on the Strategic Interaction Approach (2003) with Steve Hassan
	www.freedomofmind.com (346 words)

	Rick Ross - Flaming Web Sites
		Hassan publicly posted his fee schedule, which was reduced to $250.00 per hour and/or $2,500.00 per day.
		Once Steve Hassan reduced his fees and made this public, the RI disclaimer was taken down.
		Faith Breakers, Dream Killers and Religious Bigots..." (i.e., Steve Hassan is the..."Dream Killer" and I am the "Faith Breaker.") He concludes, "I think personally that the FBI made a major error to rely, or even to talk to [Rick Ross].
	www.rickross.com /flamingwebsites.html (6079 words)

	Amazon.de: Combating Cult Mind Control: English Books: Steven Hassan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hassan, himself an ex-member of Moon's Unification Church who was "deprogrammed", really believes that a good number of gurus abroad the world (many of them without a formal education) has achieved mastery of highly intrusive and sophisticated techniques of behavioral change and hipnosis.
		Hassan tends to preach (not overkill, though), and he has his own approach to exit counselling which is discussed and criticized in Michael D. Langone`s "Recovery From Cults", another must-read book for anyone who has left a cult, and especially for those who are in a group and have thoughts of leaving.
		Hassan has always shown compassion and understanding to both active and former cult members.His book is a needed standard:use it!
	www.amazon.de /Combating-Mind-Control-Steven-Hassan/dp/1855380250 (1455 words)

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