Social psychologist Alexandra Stein spent 10 years in a sect, but was able to free herself from its influence and became one of the world's leading experts on the mechanisms of influence of destructive communities. Her book, the result of years of research, describes the attachment mechanisms by which cults and totalitarian regimes control people's minds. It felt like you were part of a very large family, although we were not a family, but they... I... well, At that time I really didn’t associate myself with anyone other than them. I felt a connection with the members of the group, and it was like a lifeline for me. Stein details how social isolation and psychological pressure gradually transform a person's personality, leading to blind obedience and a willingness to act against one's will and interests. The author uses numerous examples to show how love and fear become tools of control and submission. When you become a full-fledged participant, they begin to tell you that you have no right to your own opinion, you cannot talk about yourself, you cannot even want anything, because otherwise you are a bourgeois, you are an egoist, you think only about yourself and you don’t care about the group... An important part of this book is the chapters devoted to strategies for protecting personal freedom and dignity, developed taking into account the personal experiences of people who have been psychologically manipulated.

For those who want to learn more about modern threats from various totalitarian systems, as well as psychologists, government representatives, lawyers, educators and former sectarians themselves and members of their families. A leader always does the right thing and acts for the good, no matter what they think the rest about his actions. They are not able to understand what is good and what is bad: only the ideological leader knows this.