Abusers, Narcissists, Cults: How They Brainwash

[Rescued One]

• Pick your target
• Offer them something they want
• Make them feel special, wanted, loved
• Then make that attention conditional, conditional on them doing and thinking what you want
• Switch what they want to something grander. (And then later switch it to wanting you)
• Criticize who they are in order to start unfreezing their personality
• Separate them from the rest of the world and their past so you become their main source of information
• Use fear and guilt to get them to think and make decisions differently
• Keep them busy physically and mentally so they don't have time to reflect and disrupt normal functions like sleeping and eating.
• Make them dependent on you and install phobias of leaving
• Use rewards and punishments to freeze new ideas, beliefs and behaviors in place
• Wash, rinse, repeat...
• How to brainwash someone - the steps, the tricks and the results
  
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[ChicanaRose]

• Pick your target
• Offer them something they want

The target is usually a vulnerable person: Isolated, have a low-esteem, or possessing some kind of disadvantage (financial, etc.) or emotional void that the abuser could exploit.