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		Hassan argues that whether leaders of such groups are conscious of it or not, they employ principles of psychological manipulation that originated in Chinese communist re-education camps and that have been refined and perfected in a modern religious context.
		Hassan shows how the same psychological devices are used to convince Unificationists that Rev. Sun Myung Moon is the second Messiah, and to persuade UFO enthusiasts that contact with extraterrestrials will occur on a certain date.
		Hassan’s perspective appears to be neither evangelical nor antievangelical, per se.
	www.equip.org /free/DC845.htm (580 words)

	Peddling - The Real Cult - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology
		Hassan later pressured Roselle’s parents to try to persuade Roselle to withdraw the true affidavit and sign a false one written by Hassan that exonerated him.
		“Steven Hassan now wants me to commit perjury by falsely signing,” he stated, “attesting and swearing that his proposed affidavit is true.
		When Hassan, associated with many other deprogramming efforts, sought to make the transition to “expert,” yet another judicial decision came out against the “experts” in “mind control.” A Massachusetts judge initially stated that Hassan might qualify as an expert on a single issue.
	www.freedommag.org /english/vol29i4/page15.htm (462 words)

	Releasing The Bonds: Empowering People To Think For Themselves
		Hassan's pioneering work in the field of cult mind control grew out of his own need to recover his pre-cult identity and re-integrate the shards of his own shattered personality.
		Hassan has skillfully condensed his 25 years of experience in liberating members of destructive groups into a valuable workbook for counselors, cult members and their families, and mental health professionals.
		Steven Hassan has called upon his twenty-three years of expertise in the cult field to write this excellent, highly readable and extremely practical manual.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /books/releasingbonds.htm (2023 words)

	Learning the Techniques of Exit-Counseling with Steven Hassan
		A special class taught by Steven Hassan was held on March 23-25, 1990 in Manhattan Beach, CA for those who desired a greater foundation in reaching out to those caught up in the cults.
		Steven Hassan is one of the experts in this field, having performed hundreds of successful interventions in the last ten years.
		Steven's approach offers a whole new paradigm in dealing with people in cults based on love, respect and intelligence.
	www.freeminds.org /sales/hassanad.htm (255 words)

	Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan
		Still, Hassan does shed light on the nature of mind control, but one needs to keep in mind that the mechanics of "mind control" is probably just as common with modern accepted traditional belief systems as with any of the so-called "cults".
		Although peppered with examples and anecdotes from the Moonies, Hassan is careful to keep the analysis general enough to apply to many other "questionable" groups and organizations.
		Hassan answers these questions and more, and clearly defines the difference between unusual beliefs (which do not necessarily identify a group as a cult) and dangerous and destructive social factors (which, independent of the beliefs, make a group a cult, according to Hassan's definition).
	www.ftrbooks.net /psych/mind_control/cult_mind_control.htm (1083 words)

	Cult Expert Profile: Steve Hassan
		Cult expert Steven Hassan has been involved in educating the public about mind control and destructive cults for over twenty three years.
		Hassan ultimately rose to the rank of Assistant Director of the Unification Church at National Headquarters.
		Hassan founded the Freedom of Mind Resource Center Inc., and the newly established non-profit Freedom of Mind Institute in order to uphold human rights, promote consumer awareness and expose abuses of destructive cult groups.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /h12.html (653 words)

	Religioscope > Archives > From deprogramming to strategic interaction - Interview with Steven Alan Hassan
		Hassan - When I was nineteen years old and a junior at Queen’s College in New York, I had just broken up with a girlfriend and I was approached by three attractive women who were part of a front group of the Moon organization, who pretended to be students.
		Hassan - I actually would agree with you that it’s been with us forever but I would also say that it’s gotten so much more sophisticated in the last fifty years that, for example, the knowledge of how to do covert hypnotic patterns has been written about and demonstrated where it hasn’t existed before.
		Hassan - I think it is really led by me and people are reading my book and they are kind of adapting to it and I’d say that it’s a direct expression of my growth as a person too.
	www.religioscope.info /article_48.shtml (8143 words)

	Steven Hassan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hassan holds a master's degree in psychology from Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as a nationally certified counselor (NCC).
		Hassan also became involved in a dispute with fellow anti-cult activist Rick Ross when Ross posted a disclaimer on his page after receiving what he claimed were “serious complaints” regarding Hassan’s fees for his services.
		Hassan responded that the charges were “inappropriate and completely inaccurate,” claiming that Ross has misstated his actual fee schedule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Hassan (1598 words)

	Steven Alan Hassan’s Freedom of Mind Resource Center helping people get out of cult groups, destructive organizations, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hassan is a model of clear exposition, his original ideas are brilliantly presented in a captivating style.
		Hassan, please call Debra at the office between 11am and 5pm (EST) on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday.
		Hassan is a licensed mental health counselor and follows the highest ethical standards of his profession.
	www.engin.umich.edu /class/eecs281/proj2/large0/f00839 (491 words)

	The Real Cult continued - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology
		It was from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s that Singer published the majority of her anti-religious papers containing the theory that presented a veneer of justification to the violent deprogramming”; activities of Steven Hassan and such felons as Ted Patrick, Galen Kelly and others.
		One of Hassan’s victims, Arthur Roselle, then a member of the Unification Church, was kidnapped by Hassan in Michigan.
		Professional deprogrammers Steven Hassan and Ellen Lloyd then began working in shifts to forcibly deprogram me away from my chosen religious beliefs.
	www.freedommag.org /english/vol29I4/page12b.htm (1461 words)

	Review of the Healing Workshop with Steven Hassan
		Steven Hassan is a former high-level Moonie who was the main speaker at the conference, and some info on him from his website at www.freedomofmind.com:
		Steven ultimately rose to the rank of Assistant Director of the Unification Church at National Headquarters.
		In his commitment to fight against destructive cults, Steven devotes a major portion of his time and energy to preventive education.
	www.watchtowernews.org /workshop2003.htm (927 words)

	Rick Ross - Flaming Web Sites
		Hassan refused to specifically respond to the substance of the complaints.
		Hassan publicly posted his fee schedule, which was reduced to $250.00 per hour and/or $2,500.00 per day.
		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 (5651 words)

	ICCS06/39 - NECSIWiki
		Steven Hassan, Freedom of Mind Resource Center inc. http://freedomofmind.com
		Furthermore, the presentation will include how a complex system model called the Strategic Interaction Approach can be used to mobilize social networks to empower impacted individuals to reassert their own identity and independence and break free from the pseudo-identity.
		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.
	necsi.org /community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06/39 (370 words)

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		In a London Times story, his brother stated that Moussaoui went through a radical personality change of the sort that is often observed in members of destructive cults.
		In 1995, 60 Minutes flew Hassan to Tokyo to be their expert on the Aum Shinrikyo cult sarin gas terrorist incident.
		A high-ranking cult member in the 1970Â¹s, Hassan was so heavily influenced by mind control techniques that he was prepared to give his life for the group.
	www.factnet.org /alt_religion_scientology/FACTNetARS20011204.txt (594 words)

	MLMSurvivor.com Book Corner
		Steven Hassan was recruited by the Unification Church (Moonies) when he was in college.
		After a car accident where he was seriously injured, the Moonies sent him to the home of a family member to recuperate.
		Here, while immobilized by a cast from his toes to his hip, Hassan met with a cult deprogrammer, and decided to leave the Moon cult.
	www.mlmsurvivor.com /BookCorner/hassan.htm (188 words)

	Cult information from cult expert Steve Hassan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ex-cult members and others seek him out for specialized counseling to help them recover from symptoms other mental health professionals are not trained to address.
		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).
		This year cult expert Steve Hassan celebrates 30 years of freedom of mind, hundreds helped, thousands informed, tens of thousands warned.
	www.freedomofmind.com.cob-web.org:8888 (470 words)

	Unification Church in the News
		...Steven A. Hassan, director of the Freedom of Mind Center in Cambridge, which offers counseling to former cult members.
		Hassan is a former member of the Unification Church, also known as the Moon cult, which had recruiters on BU's campus last fall...
		Steven Hassan is one of the world's experts on cults and cultic behaviour...
	www.cultsoncampus.com /moon.html (1214 words)

	Program 20: Constructing Social Reality
		You'll explore the power of cognitive control, the Pygmalion effect, the development of prejudice, and how expectations affect behaviors like performance and compliance.
		Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Cult Expert Steven Hassan addresses the factors that enable cults to gain and control the minds of followers.
		My definition of a cult is a pyramid-structured, authoritarian group or relationship where deception, recruitment, and mind control are used to keep people dependent and obedient.
	www.learner.org /discoveringpsychology/20/e20expand.html (412 words)

	Hassan's BITE
		Steve Hassan is a well-known cult member turned anti-cult proponent.
		The major focus of this text is, as might be surmised, helping people who have recently left a coercive group.
		Hassan has developed a 'strategic intervention' approach that is much softer than the older 'deprogramming' methods.
	changingminds.org /techniques/conversion/hassan_bite.htm (480 words)

	Topic: Cult Abuse Seminar - Steve Hassan & R. Watters (page 1)
		When Hassan was speaking sometimes, my mind was traveling with his........and back with my father.
		Steven Hassan is a former high-level Moonie who was the main speaker at the conference, and some info on him from his website at
		Hassan made some good points about guarding ourselves, yet holding out friendship to those members.
	www.jehovahs-witness.com /8/48745/1.ashx (3137 words)

	Lessons from Jonestown
		As other cult leaders have done, Jim Jones used this "power of the crowd" influence in controlling others' behavior, intellect, thoughts and emotions, says Steven Hassan, a licensed mental health counselor with the counseling group Freedom of Mind and a former cult member.
		Psychologists are also needed to develop effective treatments for cult victims to help them break free from a cult's influence before it's too late, so that, in cases like Jonestown, history does not repeat itself.
		Yet, Hassan observes the lasting psychological effects every day in his work with former cult victims, and he says cults are growing more powerful and more cunning in their deceit--often by using psychological research findings--while the public remains largely unaware of them.
	www.apa.org /monitor/nov03/jonestown.html (1400 words)

	Cult information from cult expert Steve Hassan
		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.
		On April 23rd 1976, favored by top Unification leaders for his discipline and zeal, Steve Hassan, firmly embedded in the Moonies, fell asleep behind the wheel of a Moonies fundraising van.
		They appear because we have received inquiries and have established a file on the group.
	www.freedomofmind.com (460 words)

	Excerpts of Interview with Steven Hassan in DER SPIEGEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Excerpts of Interview with Steven Hassan in DER SPIEGEL
		Excerpts of an interview with Steven Hassan in DER SPIEGEL, found in CompuServe.
		Steven Hassan is author of "Combatting Cult Mind Control" (in german sold as "Ausbruch aus dem Bann der Sekten") and the most successful exit counselor.
	www.amazing.com /scientology/deprogrammer-interview-tilman.html (418 words)

	MLM Survivors Homepage. Headlines and breaking news about Amway, Quixtar, Equinox, and other Multi-Level Marketing ...
		A must read" is how foremost cult exit counselor Steven Hassan describes the recent book, Amway Motivational Organizations: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors, by Ruth Carter.
		Ruth Carter is the author of The MLM Survivors Homepage.
		Steven founded the Resource Center for Freedom of Mind, an educational organization dedicated to upholding human rights, promoting consumer awareness and exposing abuses of destructive cult groups.
	www.mlmsurvivor.com /smokeendorse.htm (436 words)

	The articulated manipulator
		When you combine this talent with one or more forms of MANIPULATION, such as mind control (as commonly defined by mind control watchdogs Robert J.
		Lifton, Steven Hassan and Margaret Singer), a powerful force for creating deception arises.
		Steven is himself a former high-ranking official in the Unification Church (Moonies).
	www.dannyhaszard.com /manipulated.htm (518 words)

	A Retractor's Letter to Steven Hassan
		Here, StopBadTherapy.com publishes a retractor's letter to Steven Hassan, the author of Combatting Cult Mind Control.
		This letter is a slightly-edited version of the original she sent to Steven Hassan.
		She has added two paragraphs of additional information and removed identifying details about some of the individuals mentioned.
	www.stopbadtherapy.com /retracts/isa.shtml (4686 words)

	References for "...cult?"
		Steven Hassan’s Home Page {original link no longer valid.
		Hassan's site is now http://www.freedomofmind.com/; exact web page for citation is now unknown}
		Steven Hassan’s Home Page (see note in 7)
	www.safnet.com /bahai/docs/cultcite.html (404 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mind control: More than just a plot point? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From a psychologist's viewpoint, The Manchurian Candidate's implant scenario sounds far off and reminiscent of some often-reported delusions, says Steven Hassan of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center in Somerville, Mass.
		Cults, for example, typically impose gradually increasing limits on behavior, information, emotions and thinking in members to control their lives.
		"What we now know is it doesn't take a lot of effort," Hassan says.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2004-07-28-manchurian-usat_x.htm (711 words)

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