Deprogramming is an attempt to force a person to abandon allegiance to a religious, political, economic, or social group.

Deprogramming is commissioned by relatives, often parents of adult offspring, who object to someone's membership in an organization or group.

Margaret Singer defines " Deprogramming providing members with information about the cult and showing them how their own decision-making power had been taken away from them " ( Singer 1995 ), a definition which is also applicable to exit counseling.

Deprogramming and exit counseling, sometimes seen as one and the same, are distinct approaches to helping a person to leave a cult.

Deprogramming typically costs $ 10, 000 or more, mainly because of the expense of a security team.

Deprogramming has often been associated with kidnapping, which has in some cases been part of the procedure.

In the 1980s in the United States, namely in New York ( Deprogramming Bill, 1981 ), Kansas ( Deprogramming Bill, 1982 ), and Nebraska ( conservatorship legislation for 1985 ), lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted to legalize involuntary deprogramming.

* Dubrow-Eichel, Steve K., Ph. D .: Deprogramming: A Case Study, Cultic Studies Journal

* Stephen A. Kent and Josef Szimhart: Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming., Cultic Studies Review 1 No. 3, 2002

* Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics: Clarifying the Confusion-by Michael D. Langone and Paul R. Martin, from the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1993, page 46.

* Deprogramming on xFamily. org, a wiki about the Family International cult

* Deprogramming Article in Unification Church sponsored wiki-encyclopedia.

* After the Deprogramming ( 2005 ), the band's second full-length album, recorded, engineered and released by Rodent Records.

Deprogramming was mainly involuntary, the targets were not required to agree to the procedure, they were often taken by force and then held against their will.

* Kent, Stephen A. and Szimhart, Joseph: Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming., Cultic Studies Review 1 No. 3, 2002

" Deprogramming, brainwashing and the medicalization of deviant religious groups " Social Problems 29 pp 283 – 97.

* The Brainwashing / Deprogramming Controversy: Historical, Sociological, Psychological and Legal Perspectives.

* " Deprogramming " entry in Lindsay Jones, editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Religion.

* Agents of Discord: The Cult Awareness Network, Deprogramming and Bad Science.

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It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

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Within institutions there is a marked decline of the process of persuasion and the substitution of a force-fear process which masquerades as the earlier one of persuasion.

As it happens the English lady is a good Catholic herself, but of more liberal political persuasion.

Our only obligation for this day is to vote, free of persuasion, for the person we feel is capable in directing the public.

It is clear from this discussion that cosmologists of every persuasion look hopefully toward the day when a man-made satellite can be equipped with optical devices which will open up new vistas to science.

Since there is no binding authority in the Communion, these international bodies are a vehicle for consultation and persuasion.

Along with his colleague the Archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's important boards and committees ; power in the church is not highly centralised, however, so the two archbishops can often lead only through persuasion.

Another example is coercive persuasion.

This pattern was formulated by Hugh Rank and is a simple tool designed to teach some basic patterns of persuasion used in political propaganda and commercial advertising.

Individuals can better cope with organized persuasion by recognizing the common ways whereby communication is intensified or downplayed, so as to counter doublespeak.

Additionally, Vigoda-Gadot uses a sub-category of OCBs called CCBs, or " compulsory OCBs " which is used to describe OCBs that are done under the influence of coercive persuasion or peer pressure rather than out of good will.

* Jihad of the heart ( jihad bil qalb / nafs ) is concerned with combatting the devil and in the attempt to escape his persuasion to evil.

In Conservative and Reform Judaism, and some movements within Protestant Christianity, including process theology and open theism, deities are said to act in the world through persuasion, and not by coercion ( for open theism, this is a matter of choice — a deity could act miraculously, and perhaps on occasion does so — while for process theism it is a matter of necessity — creatures have inherent powers that a deity cannot, even in principle, override ).

" More comprehensive is the description by Richard Alan Nelson: " Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages ( which may or may not be factual ) via mass and direct media channels.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) () is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion.

The vast scope of rhetoric is difficult to define ; however, political discourse remains, in many ways, the paradigmatic example for studying and theorizing specific techniques and conceptions of persuasion, considered by many a synonym for " rhetoric.

In the words of Aristotle, in his essay Rhetoric, rhetoric is " the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion ".

" So, if one agrees with the statement that truth is mutual agreement, truth must be relative and necessarily arise in persuasion.

For Plato and Aristotle, dialectic involves persuasion, so when Aristotle says that rhetoric is the antistrophe of dialectic, he means that rhetoric as he uses the term has a domain or scope of application that is parallel to but different from the domain or scope of application of dialectic.

Therefore, after a rhetorical analyst discovers a use of language that is particularly important in achieving persuasion, she typically moves onto the question of " How does it work?