[I recommend going in numerical order with the Episodes. They build on each other.]

Episode 30 contains the full resource list.

This Ted-Ed Video below is a simple understanding of why people join High Demand/Control Groups and Cults. I find it cursory in it's understanding but still VERY useful. In the next few episodes I'd like to dig deeper to understand the reasons people join, stay, and keep defending leaders and groups, even when they see problems. To do that we need to get personal... but first, watch this. 

To be continued.....

Resource List so far

Gaslighting Articles:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201701/11-signs-gaslighting-in-relationship

High Demand Group Checklist:

http://www.dreichel.com/Checklist_of_Cult_Characte.htm

Spoof on Mind Control Cults:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DGKJrgfHcw

Books:

Freedom of Mind - Steven Hassan

Cults Inside and Out - Rick Alan Ross

Cults in Our Midst - Margaret Singer

Movies/TV Shows:

Holy Hell - Will Allen

Stages of Leaving a Cult:

http://spiritualabuse.org/articles/recovery.html

What Is Brain Washing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WQpRageBE&t=8s

Why do people join cults:

https://youtu.be/kB-dJaCXAxA

Mark Vicente ©2017