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Malignant Pied
Pipers of Our Time: A Psychological Study of Destructive Cult
Leaders from Rev. Jim Jones to Osama Bin Laden
by Peter A. Olsson M. D.
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Book Description
In this book, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. Peter A. Olsson
examines the phenomenon of destructive and apocalyptic cults,
revealing the psychological roots of both cult leaders and cult
members. Dr. Olsson calls the leaders (Rev. Jim Jones, David
Koresh, Osama bin Laden, and others) malignant pied pipers for
the way they lure followers to their deaths. Olsson uses
concepts of psychology to analyze the lives of the cult leaders
and the source of their powerful attraction to vulnerable
converts. Dr. Olsson offers his vision for the book: “It is my
hope that this in-depth psychological study of destructive cult
leaders of the last 30 years illuminates the roots of their
malevolence and their power, a condition that has invariably led
to murder, mass suicide, the destruction of families, and to the
terrorist acts that dominate our headlines. By understanding
them and their appeal, we increase our chance of averting future
disasters.” Dr. Olsson has been a psychiatrist for more than 30
years in Texas and New Hampshire. He is a professor of
psychiatry and has published many scholarly papers and
contributed chapters to eight books about psychology. He won the
1979 Judith Baskin Offer Prize for his paper “Adolescent
Involvement with the Supernatural and Cults.”
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