Deprogramming

The illegal practice of kidnapping members of religious movements labeled as “cults,” keep them confined, and subject them to intense psychological pressure to persuade them to leave the “cult.” Several deprogrammers, who were normally hired by relatives of the members of the “cults,” ended up in jail after courts of law banned the practice of deprogramming, first in the United States and later in Europe and Japan.

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