mental manipulation

3 stories

Hearing of Serge Blisko, President of the MIVILUDES, before the Senate Commission on Cults and Health

CICNS's twelve-part commentary on Serge Blisko's November 2012 Senate hearing: the MIVILUDES's rhetoric, the About-Picard Act's record of convictions, and the child-victim figures its president could not substantiate.

Anti-cult movements

The CCMM

CICNS profile of the CCMM, the anti-cult association founded in 1981 by Roger Ikor, with quotations from Ikor's own articles and speeches of the 1980s.

Religious freedom & law

The 2010 Miviludes Guide — a Machiavellian Will to Exclude

CICNS takes apart the 2010 MIVILUDES guide on minors: the unfounded 50,000 child victims, "mental hold" as pseudo-science, and criteria that fit any family.