Jean-Marie Abgrall

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Jean-Marie Abgrall, where he still lives., is a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult consultant, graduate in criminal law and well-known anti-cultist. He has been an expert witness.
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Fransa, 12 Nisan 1950

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The Profile of Likely Recruits
Cult members are generally recruited between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Older followers usually belonged to a cult earlier in life as well. At the young end of the scale are students finishing their secondary education or beginning their higher education. Full disciplehood usually means curtailing formal studies, and the true cultural and education level of the members is slightly lower than it appears to be. The discrepancy between the biographical cultural level and the real cultural level is an indicator of socio-cultural maladjustment.
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PROVEN METHODS: SCIENTOLOGY - Neo Languages
Training and use of a vocabulary specific to the cult have two principal functions. The first, once more, is to cut the subject off from his natural environment and to immerse him within a community that has its own language. The second is the progressive distortion of the meaning of words which, through progressive stages, redirect the subject’s
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PSYCHIC CONDITIONING - “Scotomization”
If we take, for example, the Church of Scientology, one can see that most of Dianetics put the bulk of responsibility for a thetan’s failures in life on his or her parents. Thus Ron Hubbard makes parents the true criminals 3 by making them the only people responsible for their child’s dissatisfaction with his or her life. The theory of the thetan actually reduces parents to being merely the instruments that produced the thetan. They are usually, however, seen as parasites, since they cut the “ideal person” from his or her true potential by “socializing” him. The majority of painful experiences in a Scientiologist’s life are blamed on his or her parents, particularly the mother: stress is placed on any abnormal behavior of the mother before the child’s birth, this conduct supposedly being the origin of the subject’s failures in life. The parents’ influence is therefore suppressed (and is considered an obstacle to the CC’s success in initiation) and eventually eliminated. Any opposition from them is considered the same as persecuting the Church. The emotional vacuum that results from this sends the subject to seek relations only within tthe Church of Scientology, thus allowing the creation of a substitute pseudo-family. However, the subject can progress if he manages to attract the members of his family into the Church: this is the theory of dissemination and planetary evangelization.
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PHYSICAL CONDITIONING - Compulsory Labor
Physical exhaustion is a mighty weapon. A good many cults use it, and some have been indicted for this reason. Not only is forced labor a source of income for the sect, its systematic application, coupled with malnutrition, reduces resistance to indoctrination. The triad of labor/sleep deprivation/malnutrition is an ideal instrument for breaking the physical and mental resistance of an individual.
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The Profile of Likely Recruits
Family or social conflicts often contribute to a person’s decision to join a cult. The group is a shelter from the aggression that has been felt and it provides a model of conflict resolution that intellectually satisfies the follower. He refuses any self-analysis and transfers all responsibility onto the external world, and more particularly onto the social or family unit. Entry into a cult is often a way of responding to the social pressures to establish one’s autonomy from the family, especially during adolescence. Sometimes this move is taken in response to crisis situations — divorce, job loss, mourning — or to a disturbance of what used to be “normal,” either personally, or within the family. Going into a cult, in such cases, serves a pseudo-therapeutic function. This element of “asking for help” makes CCs take a strong aggressive stance with regard to recognized psychiatrists and psychotherapists, who are the only ones likely to bring the subject to a real analysis of his actions and his responsibility in family and social conflicts.
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