Deprogramming

The practice of deprogramming means the removal of improperly implanted ideas from a person's mind. The premise of deprogramming is that a person, generally considered a victim of cult brainwashing?, has lost their freedom of mind. Deprogramming, held to restore this freedom, entails restraining or incarcerating the victim and subjecting him to lengthy harangues until he accepts deprogramming's premise and recants his former allegiance.

To do: history, legal aspects

See: conservatorship?, cult