The Science of Cult: Sociometrics

Brian M. Anderson
8 min readNov 4, 2022

This story begins with the social scientist J.L Moreno. Born in 1889 in Romania, he would become a prominent psycho-sociologist most known for his commitment to the therapy tool known as psychodrama. One where participants play out the contexts of ailments and dysfunction under a narrative drama. I would argue he had a far greater contribution however, one that seems to have all but been forgotten, is his development of…

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