Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults

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In the 12 fascinating lectures of Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults, you will learn about some of the most widely known cults of modern times. But unlike any standard news reporting or documentary about these groups, your expert, Dr. Wind Goodfriend, will help you explore the psychology of these cults and their charismatic leaders.

Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults is a series that ran for 1 seasons (11 episodes) between March 20, 2025 and on The Great Courses

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Seasons
Stories of Cult Survivors
12. Stories of Cult Survivors
March 20, 2025
Here, you
Aftershocks: Healing and Finding Closure
11. Aftershocks: Healing and Finding Closure
March 20, 2025
What is life like for individuals who leave cults and move back into the normal world, possibly reconnecting with their families and living as independent adults? Explore the aftershock model and what it suggests about short- and long-term experiences after cult life. And learn the important differences between post-traumatic stress disorder and post traumatic growth.
Escaping a Cult
10. Escaping a Cult
March 20, 2025
Cult members do not easily walk away from the cult
Cults as Abusive Love
9. Cults as Abusive Love
March 20, 2025
Could an abusive romantic relationship be thought of as a
Having Your Sense of Self Stolen
8. Having Your Sense of Self Stolen
March 20, 2025
Cult leaders change their members
Obedience and Commitment inside Cults
7. Obedience and Commitment inside Cults
March 20, 2025
What are the indoctrination strategies that keep people committed to an organization that abuses them, sometimes for years? How can the leaders keep their members once they are on the inside and see the cults
Cult Recruitment and Seduction
6. Cult Recruitment and Seduction
March 20, 2025
Learn how cult leaders take advantage of the kindness and sincerity of their recruits by using tactics of manipulation and indoctrination. After promising that the cult will provide seemingly everything the recruits were searching for and welcoming them with effusive
The Psychology of Cult Leaders
4. The Psychology of Cult Leaders
March 20, 2025
Stereotypes tell us that cult leaders are fanatical, evil, power-hungry, sex-obsessed men. Explore a more nuanced and expanded psychological profile of cult leaders. These are the personality traits or circumstances that contribute to the cult leaders
The Destructive Nature of Cults
3. The Destructive Nature of Cults
March 20, 2025
Continue to explore the eight characteristics of cults and learn why your professor adds one more criterion to that classic list. Explore the importance of describing cults as groups that are at least ultimately destructive
What Defines a Cult: The Eight Deadly Sins
2. What Defines a Cult: The Eight Deadly Sins
March 20, 2025
Many scholars believe there is no clean and neat definition of a cult. Instead, you
Introduction to Infamy: Famous Cults
1. Introduction to Infamy: Famous Cults
March 20, 2025
Thousands of cults exist in the world right now and they fall into five major categories: religious, political, self-help/pseudo therapy, commercial/business, and cults of personality. Explore seven of the most notorious cults in modern history
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In the 12 fascinating lectures of Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults, you will learn about some of the most widely known cults of modern times. But unlike any standard news reporting or documentary about these groups, your expert, Dr. Wind Goodfriend, will help you explore the psychology of these cults and their charismatic leaders.

Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults is a series that ran for 1 seasons (11 episodes) between March 20, 2025 and on The Great Courses

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Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults is available for streaming on the The Great Courses website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults on demand at Amazon Prime and Amazon.
  • Premiere Date
    March 20, 2025
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