This book is the culmination of 36 years of experience in helping people all over the world. It describes a practical approach to helping those affected by destructive cults. The Strategic Interactive Approach (SIA) improves upon exit counseling, and promotes a family-centered, non-coercive course of action. It provides friends and family of the cult member with a greater understanding of cult methods, and the effects of indoctrination. It offers new insight into cult-induced phobias, and effective tools for overcoming them.
The SIA is designed to help the cult member recognize that he has been under the influence of the group and eventually, to recognize the pervasiveness of the group’s control over his life. Once the former member has experienced such an awakening, my methods help him regain a sense of personal power, integrity, and direction. Most cult members I have worked with have experienced emotional, psychological and even spiritual rebirth. They were able to return to their families and were spared further injury or possibly even death.
