An excellent link explaining CULTS and how they operate and how to recover.

[Knows]

http://www.carolgiambalvo.com/reflections-on-post-cult-recovery.html

This is an excellent website to learn how cults operate and how they trap people into them.

 

[AnonyMary]

Michael D Langone Ph.D, the author of that article at the above link, along with his associate Janja Lalich, Ph.D created a very useful checklist of cult characteristics, which can be found here
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm