ABSTRACT
I have heard therapists refer to ongoing involvement with a perpetrator group as “current contact.” That term implies agreement. It does not quite capture the situation. Cult members break into your home, terrorize and torture you, or they grab you off the street and take you somewhere to mind-control you, or they program you to appear at a designated place and time where they will do the same. This last option might be the worst because you have become even more the unwitting victim. None of these scenes imply consent.
