Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
 Paperback edition | |
| Author |
Flo Conway Jim Siegelman |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Religious conversion, Mind control |
| Publisher |
1st ed. Lippincott, 2nd printing Dell, 2nd ed. Stillpoint Press |
Publication date | 1978 ( 2005 ) |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 380 ( 365 ) |
| ISBN |
0-397-01258-6 (1st ed.); ISBN 0-440-57970-8 (2nd printing); ISBN 0-9647650-0-4 (2nd ed.) |
| OCLC | 3844238 |
| 155.2/5 | |
| LC Class | BF698.2 .C66 |
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change is a 1978 book which describes the authors' theory of religious conversion. They propose that "snapping" is a mental process through which a person is recruited by a cult or new religious movement, or leaves the group through deprogramming or exit counseling. Political ideological conversions are also included, with Patty Hearst given as an example.[1]
Two editions of the book were published, the first (1978) by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins;[2] and reprinted in 1979 by Dell Publishing;[3] and a second edition (1995) by Stillpoint Press, a publishing company owned by the authors.[4][5]
Concept
Conway and Siegelman describe snapping as:
"an experience that is unmistakably traumatic ... Sudden change comes in a moment of intense experience that is not so much a peak as a precipice, an unforeseen break in the continuity of awareness that may leave them detached, withdrawn, disoriented - and utterly confused." [4]
Snapping has been said to create the effect of an entirely new person, often completely different and unrecognizable.[6]
Information disease
Conway and Siegelman further proposed that a disorder which they named "information disease" was caused by alteration of the neurological pathways of the brain by group indoctrination and mind control activities.[7]
References
- ↑ The A to Z of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides, Scarecrow Press, Jan 1, 2006, page 301
- ↑ Siegelman, Jim; Conway, Flo (1978). Snapping: America's epidemic of sudden personality change. Philadelphia: Lippincott. ISBN 0-397-01258-6.
- ↑ Siegelman, Jim; Conway, Flo (1979). Snapping: America's epidemic of sudden personality change. New York: Dell. ISBN 0-440-57970-8.
- 1 2 Siegelman, Jim; Conway, Flo (1995). Snapping: America's epidemic of sudden personality change. Stillpoint Press. ISBN 0-9647650-0-4.
- ↑ Stillpoint Press; 20 Park Ave., New York, NY, United States,; Corporate officers: Siegelman, James; Conway Flo. Source: Company Intelligence Database, Thomson Gale;
- ↑ Undying Love: The True Story Of A Passion That Defied Death, Ben Harrison, Macmillan, Feb 15, 2001 page 26
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy, William F. Williams, Routledge, Dec 2, 2013, page 319