Escaping from a cult isn’t as simple as staging a prison break. It is both a physical and mental process known as “deprogramming.” Former cult members must be mentally stripped down to their base ...

The list of others calling for deprogramming also includes Katie Couric, former CBS News and NBC "Today" host, who told Bill Maher in 2021: "And the question is, how are we going to really almost ...

Nearly two years into a deprogramming regimen that has allowed her to reaccess her individuality and "laugh again," India Oxenberg — who tells her own story in Starz's Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult — ...

Conservatives recoiled Friday at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent suggestion that there should be a "formal deprogramming" of supporters of former President Donald Trump. After ...

Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term ...