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BITE axis: General

Eight Criteria of Thought Reform

Robert Jay Lifton's eight features of totalist environments (1961): milieu control, mystical manipulation, demand for purity, confession, sacred science, loading the language, doctrine over person, and dispensing of existence.

Groups in the dataset that reference Eight Criteria of Thought Reform

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Unification Church / Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) / Moonies

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Eight Criteria of Thought Reform

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Eight Criteria of Thought Reform

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