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Escaping Utopia: Rebuilding Your Life After Growing up in a Cult (with Dr Janja Lalich)

Escaping Utopia: Rebuilding Your Life After Growing up in a Cult (with Dr Janja Lalich)

2022-03-25
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This week's returning guest is ex-cult member, now sociologist and cult expert--Dr Janja Lalich, co-author along with fellow cult survivor Kala McLaren of the excellent book Escaping Utopia: Growing up in a Cult, Getting  Out, and Starting Over.

In this episode, Dr Lalich and I take a deep dive into not just what makes a cult a cult, but more specifically her "bounded choice" model of cults, with its four major components. If you've come out of a cult, fundamentalist religion, or any other sort of high-demand group with undue influence, then you will benefit from this episode!

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