It is a customary manipulation for destructive cult to deceive followers under the guise of orthodox religion. Thus, if only to reveal the words and deeds, it is difficult for the dupes to know destructive cult correctly and then break away from it, because understanding the reason for the words and deeds of a man is more important than what he says and does. Based on this, this article puts forward a psychological way to distinguish and recognize orthodox religion and destructive cult: All the motives of the hierarch to create the traditional religion are kind, loving, even noble, and great, while the motives of the hierarch to create destructive cult are to defraud the power to control, deceive sex, and swindle wealth.
The breeding and communication of cult are all realized on the base of psychological activities, psychological factors play an important role in preventing and resisting breeding and communication of cult, and in this paper, it demonstrates respectively at this point, and starts from forming the long-term mechanism of the Chinese cult governance and proposes the conception and specific suggestions accordingly of establishing the national psychological assistance system to prevent and resist breeding and communication of cult.
Heretic rescue is a major part of anti-heresy activities, in which psychological counseling and therapy play a unique and irreplaceable role. This paper illustrates the role of psychological counseling and therapy from perspective of domestic reality of heretic rescue, describes difficulties and challenges faced in carrying out psychological counseling and therapy among heretics as well as available theories and methods in psychological counseling and therapy for heretic rescue.
It is a worldwide problem to let the destructive cult believers detached from the destructive cult. The most difficult point is that it is difficult to change the destructive cult belief. The reason why the destructive cult faith is difficult to change is because that the destructive cults embezzled the basic concepts and doctrines of many legitimate religions in the construction of the destructive cult faith, which make the destructive cults and religious beliefs have many similarities in psychology, including the tenacity and stability of faith. The believers tend to believe it as a orthodox legitimate religion. The article points out the similarity that makes destructive cult beliefs hard to change and lists the ways to identify heretical beliefs.
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