As difficult as the initiation rites for the Ph.D. program were, moving upward in the cult’s hierarchy increased the stakes and the challenges of the rituals. Just as a “made member” of the ...

Although they exert robust psychological control, cults do their utmost to appear ... to offer both friendship and a strict organizational hierarchy. Canadian psychologist Isabelle Hénault ...

Cults display unwarranted admiration for a person ... which lead to his proposal that humans have a hierarchy of needs. The higher-order need to achieve our full potential (which he called self ...

Then there is Tess (Carter Scott), a big shot in the cult hierarchy, who has "disconnected" from her father, Landon, in response to a command from her organizational superiors. Having joined the ...