Craving the same clear direction and hierarchy she’d had as part of the cult, she joined the army — only to find she chafed against the rigid structure she thought she needed to survive.

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 ...

The seating arrangement correlated to the hierarchy within the cult. So science fiction shows were good, such as “The X-Files,” “Star Trek: Voyager” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ...

“The hierarchy in this “church”, the level of abuse that I’ve consistently heard goes on behind the scenes and how everything centers around the Leader is textbook 101 of cults,” she ...

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 ...