I Believe Terror Love and Brainwashing by Alexander Stein

The nexus is not a cult. It's different from a cult because it doesn't have a leader, right? But basically the author Alexander Stein is a Cult survivor like she exited a cult and then she's done a lot of research on this stuff. She uses an entirely attachment theory based lens To understand the ways that cults and fundamentalist ideologies function. They're way more resilient in terms of their yeah Like maybe they never even got that deep into it in the first place because they're like way less likely to end up there.