What Rick Alan Ross has said about Deprogramming
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026
Rick Alan Ross, American cult intervention specialist, founder of the Cult Education Institute and author of Cults Inside Out, has been quoted on Deprogramming 2 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ross says a deprogramming intervention typically takes three or four days of eight-hour sessions.
“And it could take three or four days, eight hours a day. So 24 hours, 32 hours to complete that intervention process”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 19:46
Ross advises people with doubts about their group to unplug from it so they can think independently.
“Unplug. Unplug from the group because so many of these groups are dependent upon you constantly being recharged by group indoctrination”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 56:22
Episodes
Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan RossMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 22, 2026 · 51 min
Mayim Bialik talks with cult expert Rick Alan Ross about how cults recruit and break people down, deprogramming, Scientology, AA, religion and Lev Tahor.
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