Excerpted from Steve Hassan.s paper of September 1984, revised May 1986

 

MY APPROACH

 

In 1976 . I participated in a number of forced .deprogrammings..  None to my knowledge were kidnappings from a street corner, but were rather detainments . the .cult. (our emphasis) came home to visit, and was restricted from leaving or contacting the .cult. for several days.

 

It has now been more than seven years since I last participated in a .forceful. deprogramming.I know well the emotional devastation of situations where the cult member  . brought law suites against family and professionals.  The . ethical problems I had justifying the use of those tactics .