The Resistance to Deprogramming

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Parents who were afraid of that started asking him to do that to their kids. And other people started becoming like, uh, acolytes in that idea. "Cult deprogramming became this thing where if you wanted to believe in it, it was great," he says. 'It had been given some credit because people who had left the moonies usually praised them for the deprogramming'

In this episode we sit down with Megan Phelps-Roper, the author of Unfollow, a memoir of her time in Westboro Baptist Church, and an exploration what it took to convince her to leave. I interviewed Megan for my upcoming book, How Minds Change, and in this interview you will learn all about assimilation and accommodation, cult deprogrammers, and the steps Megan says one must take if they want to change someone's mind.

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