Michael Langone, Cults: Questions and Answers, in www.csj.org, International Cultic Studies Association. URL consultato il 27 dicembre 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 3 agosto 2016).
«Mind control (also referred to as 'brainwashing,' 'coercive persuasion,' 'thought reform,' and the 'systematic manipulation of psychological and social influence') refers to a process in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated.»
