FOCUS – Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, long-time legal expert in the courts, Delphine Guérard immerses us in sectarian influence, sneaky and dangerous.
Seduction, persuasion, the promise to solve the difficulties of the individual or the world. Beguiling words and a method, unique of course, infallible necessarily, provided you comply entirely. Then the negation of the individual, his growing isolation as he integrates the group, the planning of his whole life by a master “reassuring and protective, bewitching, bewitching, enchanting, prodigious”… but quickly “intrusive” et “pervert” who “invading another’s private space”. What makes up a sect, how do the gurus work and why do some individuals adhere to it when others, from the outset, are able to distrust it? A clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, a long-time judicial expert in the courts, Delphine Guérard plunges us into the sectarian influence, sly more than spectacular, but which always “seriously undermines the mental integrity of individuals”.
Cults, the author explains, exist “For a very long time, in all…
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