(1) control of communication,
(2) emotional and behavioral manipulation,
(3) demands for absolute conformity to behavior prescriptions derived from the ideology,
(4) obsessive demands for confession,
(5) agreement that the ideology is faultless,
(6) manipulation of language in which clichés substitute for analytic thought,
(7) reinterpretation of human experience and emotion in terms of doctrine, and
(8) classification of those not sharing the ideology as inferior and not worthy of respect
(Lifton 1961, pp. 419–437, 1987).
How many of these have you experienced? Where and when?