The psychiatric kind (Lifton) where stages are identified from, assault on identity, guilt, self-betrayal, breaking point, leniency, compulsion to confess, channeling of guilt, releasing of guilt, progress and harmony, final confession and rebirth.
The cult kind (cultivate, inculcate) whereby a leader induces a herd mentality of idolizing admiration to the point of irrational excess.
The Catholic/Protestant-kind where you are induced from youth into religious truths.
The public school kind, achieved chiefly by suppression of information and ostracizing and punitive redirection.
The journalist kind, typically called propaganda, a form of repetition that believes the more often something is said the more true it is.
Williamson's profound insight was prompted by recent press reporting of the Nxivm sex *cult* case.
where you are induced from youth into religious truths.