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Even though some of this information appears to have been tailored to fit Alcoholics Anonymous, it has not. This is just your generic run-of-the-mill cult description. In fact, the major concern of the Revive web site is currently a new cult called "International Churches of Christ" that is sweeping campuses. They don't even mention A.A.. They just coincidentally describe it. What is the slogan in A.A.? "There are no coincidences..."
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Dr. Robert J. LIften, one of the pioneers in the study of brainwashing and coercive thought reform, wrote,
Whatever its setting, thought reform consist of two basic elements: confession, the exposure and renunciation of past and present "evil"; and re-education, the remaking of a man in the Communist image. These elements are closely related and overlapping, since they both bring into play a series of pressures and appeals - intellectual, emotional, and physical - aimed at social control and individual change.
(Though Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.; W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 1963, page 5.)