New religious movements that grew out of therapy, self-improvement and rehabilitation programs, offering a method of personal change inside a tightly bound community. Their histories show how a program of treatment or training can harden into a closed group with a charismatic leader and its own doctrine. Journalists, courts and former members have documented abuses in both cases, and scholars use them to study how communities of care become systems of control. Members placed here so far include NXIVM, Synanon.
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NXIVM (Wikipedia)
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It was also the name of the now-defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates.
Synanon (Wikipedia)
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Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, Synanon developed into an alternative community centered on group truth-telling sessions that came to be known as the "Synanon Game", a form of attack therapy.
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