Cult leaders use coercive control tactics to manipulate members and take their resources. This chart helps us understand and ...

From Joaquin Phoenix to Glenn Close, here are six celebrities who experienced living in cults — and how they escaped.

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In HBO’s ‘Bring Me the Beauties,’ former supermodel Hoyt Richards reckons with decades inside a cult, and the millions he handed its leader, who claimed to be an alien.

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Raised in the Children of God, Bexy Cameron (inset as a child) grew up to investigate other cults, such as the Twelve Tribes, pictured here with a young member in upstate New York in 2012. Sara Nesson ...

In Berkeley Talks episode 183, Poulomi Saha, an associate professor in the Department of English and co-director of the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, discusses how cult culture, once a ...