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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Psychology of the NXIVM Cult (2019 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

[Rerun] Dr. Kirk Honda and Humberto talk about the NXIVM cult and the recent arrests of the leaders, Keith Raniere and Allison Mack. Is Raniere a psychopath? Was Allison Mack a victim of Stockholm syndrome? Why do people join cults?

February 11, 2019


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0:00.0

so birdo you contacted me the other day and you're like hey Kirk let's talk about

0:12.2

nexium the cult sex slavery thing that blown up on the internet why did you

0:20.3

want to do an episode about nexium yeah man it was like I had seen the these

0:25.9

little news items pop up a few months ago about you know how like this famous

0:31.4

Allison Mack actress from smallville was involved in the sex cult and all

0:35.4

these things and at first it was just like such a random story that I didn't

0:41.7

really know what was up but I got I started getting interested for some

0:45.2

use reason YouTube kept recommending you videos to me maybe there's my

0:50.8

search history all about sex dungeons or something I don't know but I kept

0:54.6

getting recommended these videos about the stuff and not necessarily just about

0:59.6

nexium but about related topics and I started diving a little deeper into it

1:03.7

and then I realized that it is very much related to other things that we've

1:08.4

talked about some of the stuff you've done episodes on related to to

1:12.6

cults pyramid schemes kind of mind control and and and then sort of also

1:18.1

sexuality and male dominance and a lot of these themes and and then I thought

1:25.4

well that's interesting and then there was another angle which is that we've

1:29.2

we've talked a little bit about landmark before and and of course the two things

1:33.6

are not directly related at all but there have been similar lawsuits that have

1:39.9

come up and so all this came up in my mind I was like we got to do an episode

1:43.4

about this plus there's Allison Mack she's an actress and we do a lot of pop

1:47.8

stuff so yeah every day we get some email or comment from our landmark

1:55.4

episode landmark for those who don't know is a seminar organization that's been

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