Healing for Survivors

Help for Loved Ones

Since 1976, cult expert Steven Hassan has helped people with destructive cults, mind control, brainwashing, parental alienation, estrangement, unethical hypnosis, abusive relationships, human trafficking, multi-level marketing, violent extremism & other forms of undue influence.

Steven works continually to develop further as a cult expert. He has been pursuing a doctorate at Fielding Graduate University in Organizational Change and Development. His faculty mentor is Judith Stevens-Long, Ph.D. He intends to resume his studies in September 2019. Michael Commons is his external faculty mentor and is supervising quantitative research on the factors of control that characterize undue influence.

*Update* – Peer-reviewed article available for free until the end of May:

Hassan, S., Shah, M.J. The anatomy of undue influence used by terrorist cults and traffickers to induce helplessness and trauma, so creating false identities. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health (2019) 8, 97-107 Elsevier Masson SAS. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2019.03.002