Word: deprogramming
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Others apply methods familiar to psychologists and those who deprogram cult members. James Fitzsimmons, a retired FBI interviewer who dealt extensively with al-Qaeda members, says terrorism suspects often use their membership in a group as a psychological barrier. The interrogator's job, he says, "is to bring them out from the collective identity to the personal identity." To draw them out, Fitzsimmons invites his subjects to talk about their personal histories, all the way back to childhood. This makes them think of themselves as individuals rather than as part of a group...
While White is mellow, Teter, who followed his golden performance the next day, is more bubbly than New Year's champagne. And odder than a Brazilian bobsledder. Asked what she would do with her medal: "I'll staple it on a wall, with a real staple gun." Huh? To deprogram, Teter heads to a Benedictine monastery near her childhood home in tiny Belmont, Vt., to meditate and just hang with the rest of the robes. "I go there and kind of just forget about everything," Teter told TIME before the Games. "My life, my stresses, my world. They are sooooo...
...weeks in a seaside Havana house, and officials plan to keep international media out of Elian's hometown of Cardenas, ostensibly to let Elian get caught up in school so he can enter second grade in September. But critics in the U.S. warn that the quarantine is meant to deprogram Elian. (If so, he'll be used to it: the private school he attended in Miami, owned by a right-wing Cuban-exile leader, was just as dogmatic.) Last week he used the luxurious house as a romper room, giggling at the bald head of his other grandfather Rolando...