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Jung originated several prevailing ideas in psychology, organized around his own authority and charisma.

Clinical popularity and wide acceptance does not protect a training institute from authoritarian patterns.

A quota limiting Jewish membership was enforced by the Jungians, with written materials being quasi-religious.

Carl Jung gave us the shadow self and asked us to consider who we are within a system of classification. His ideas traveled far beyond the psychoanalysis room, cascading through the mythology of the wildly popular Myers-Briggs personality test and decades of self-help writing. Two things remain true: one, that his clinical ideas genuinely helped patients, and two, the circle around him also organized itself around one man's personal authority.

While the early Jungian world was nothing like Scientology or NXIVM, the structure of the early Jungians falls well within the bounds of a cult-like atmosphere, complete with its own charismatic figurehead.

Applying the BITE Model

The BITE Model, which I developed, examines four kinds of influence a group exerts over its members, and the letters stand for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control.

Behavior control governs what you do, information control governs what you're........

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