Family interventions into spiritual involvement can humiliate rather than persuade the target
Evidence
I was the same person I’d always been, and suddenly I was treated as if I’d committed a crime, as if I were no longer sane. My husband shared emails from me and my energy healer with family members and also talked to friends about how he feared I was now in a cult. Everyone was talking at me to stop all contact there and then. I felt like I was being put in the pillory stripped naked. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 468
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Direct family confrontation often backfires or has no effect on committed extremists. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 451; A bright family can isolate an intellectually outmatched patriarch through patronizing dismissal