Cults: inside the world's most notorious groups and understanding the people who joined them

Shame: Charles Manson and the Family

Shame: Adolfo de Jesús Costanzo and the narcosatanists

Exploitation: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Exploitation: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple

Pathological lying: Claude Vorilhon and Raëlism

Sadism: Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids

Megalomania" David Koresh and the Branch Davidians

Sadism: Keith Raniere and NXIVM

Escape: Credonia Mwerinde and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

Denial of reality: Marshall Applewhite and Heaven's Gate.