| Them and Us | |
| Table
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| Foreword by
Doris Lessing |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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| 1 | The Cult Mirror A Common Story • The Dependency Fantasy |
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| 2 | Hugh and Clara: A Case History |
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| 3 | Compliance with the Group The Power of Groups • The Threat of Conflicting Loyalties • The Conversion Experience • Oppression by Censure • Degrees of Dependence • Career Realities and Cult Demands • Corporate Culture or Corporate Cult? • Self-Deception and Compliance |
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| 4 | Dependence on a Leader Keeping Ourselves Small • The Use and Abuse of Hierarchies • Looking for Leaders • The Fantasy Leader • The Leader’s Fantasy • When Facts Don’t Count • The Draw of Idealism • Up and Down the Corporate Ladder • Unintended Consequences of Power • Submission and Security • The Rewards of Surrender • The Cult Continuum • Dangers in Psychotherapy • Worrisome Practices in Psychoanalytic Institutes • Blind Followers and Blind Leaders • The Power of a Higher Authority |
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| 5 | Devaluing the Outsider Devaluation and Projection • The Confidence of the Righteous • The Power of Boundaries • How the Media Portrays “Them” • Seeing the Enemy Abroad • The Cost of Devaluation |
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| 6 | Avoiding Dissent Unspoken Boundaries in the Media • Selective Reporting • Advertising’s Covert Indoctrination • Officially Sanctioned Truths • Self-Censorship in the Media • Wanting to Believe Doesn’t Make It So • Who Gets to Choose? • Reinforcing Belief • The Power of Secrecy • The Benefits of Being Contradicted |
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| 7 | Escape from Cult Thinking My Own (and Your) Cult Thinking • Official Self-Deception • Illusory Debates • Fostering Dissent • An Uncomfortable Process • The Eye-Level World • Gandhi’s Experiment • Distinguishing the Moral • Going Beyond Dependence |
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| 8 | The Terrorist Threat What “They” Think • What “We” Think • Looking for Causes • Looking for Solutions • Coda |
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| Notes |
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| Index |
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