Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace

Singer spent decades as a psychologist studying cult recruitment and the mechanisms of thought reform. Her book is a clinical taxonomy of manipulation — the techniques for isolating members, redefining language, manufacturing guilt. Less memoir than manual: the value is in the precision of the description, the way she makes the invisible architecture of control visible. An essential counter to the assumption that only the weak are recruited.