278 Episodes

  1. Anti-cult activism: Hate, disgruntlement or something else?

    Published: 8/25/2023
  2. “Silenced in Eden” with Jo Lloyd Johnson

    Published: 8/18/2023
  3. Learning About Cults With Kacey from The Cult Vault

    Published: 8/11/2023
  4. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 7: Finding Identity After Leaving a Cult

    Published: 8/8/2023
  5. Is there a UFO cult inside the Pentagon?

    Published: 8/4/2023
  6. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 6: Managing a Cult

    Published: 8/1/2023
  7. Inside The Mind of a Teenage Fundamentalist

    Published: 7/28/2023
  8. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 5: Organizational Change

    Published: 7/25/2023
  9. Cults on Film: The Truman Show

    Published: 7/21/2023
  10. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 4: Cult Leadership

    Published: 7/18/2023
  11. Recovering from a Traumatic Narcissistic Cultic Relationship with Dan Shaw

    Published: 7/14/2023
  12. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 3: Why People Join and Why they Stay

    Published: 7/11/2023
  13. The Descent of Man

    Published: 7/7/2023
  14. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 2: The Problem With Shunning

    Published: 7/4/2023
  15. The Troubled Teen Industry: Behavior Modification

    Published: 6/30/2023
  16. The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 1: How Cults Motivate

    Published: 6/28/2023
  17. Bike and Psych

    Published: 6/23/2023
  18. Taking on NXIVM with Susan Dones

    Published: 6/16/2023
  19. The Five Stages of Grief - But Mostly Anger

    Published: 6/9/2023
  20. ”In the New System, will we have stories?”: Ex JW Writer, Rebecca Woodward

    Published: 6/2/2023

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A podcast about cult hacking! Cracking the code to understand what cults are, how they work, how people leave and how to make sense of the world after leaving. Father and daughter team, media graduate Celine and former cult member, now organizational psychologist Stephen, explore how cults work, why they are so dangerous and the experience of leaving and making sense of the world. They speak to cult hackers from all over the world, from ex members to academics, from writers to filmmakers, and from therapists to activists. Copyright Stephen Mather 2022