Them and Us : Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat

Foreword by Doris Lessing ix Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1(4) 1 The Cult Mirror 5(9) A Common Story The Dependency Fantasy 2 Hugh and Clara: A Case History 14(40) 3 Compliance with the Group 54(20) The Power of Groups The Threat of Conflicting Loyalties The Conversion Experience Oppression by Censure Degrees of Dependence Career Realities and Cult Demands Corporate Culture or Corporate Cult? Self-Deception and Compliance 4 Dependence on a Leader 74(33) Making Ourselves Small The Use and Abuse of Hierarrhies Looking for Leaders The Fantasy Leader The Leader's Fantasy When Facts Don't Count The Draw of Idealism Up and Down the Corporate Ladder Unintended Consequences of Power Submission and Security The Rewards of Surrender The Cult Continuum Dangers in Psychotherapy Worrisome Practices in Psychoanalytic Institutes Blind Followers and Blind Leaders The Power of a Higher Authority 5 Devaluing the Outsider 107(19) Devaluation and Projection The Confidence of the Righteous The Power of Boundaries How the Media Portrays "Them" The Cost of Devaluation Seeing the Enemy Abroad 6 Avoiding Dissent 126(24) Unspoken Boundaries in the Media Selective Reporting Advertising's Covert Indoctrination Officially Sanctioned Truths Self-Censorship in the Media Wanting to Believe Doesn't Make It So Who Gets to Choose? Reinforcing Belief The Power of Secrecy The Benefits of Being Contradicted 7 Escape from Cult Thinking 150(20) My Own (and Your) Cult Thinking Official Self Deception Illusory Debates Fostering Dissent An Uncomfortable Process The Eye-Level World Gandhi's Experiment Distinguishing the Moral Going Beyond Dependence 8 The Terrorist Threat 170(17) What "They" Think What "We" Think Looking for Causes Looking for Solutions Coda Notes 187(12) Index 199