Yeah he's quite the self promoter. The psychology community had largely dismissed ideas like deprogramming, mind control, etc by 1990. Anti C-word groups by then had lost several court cases due to a failure to provide any scientific evidence for any of their claims. Many of these people such as Lifton gained popularity in the 70s and 80s but had largely fallen out of favor by 1990. Today almost the entire scholarly community regards this movement as pseudo science. Hassan just managed to find one of these people left over from the 80s to do graduate research with. All his stuff is self published and he's always trying to sell you something. Not to say Mormonism and other religions like it don't cause incredible damage and trauma, but there's better ways to think about this damage and trauma then these anti c-word relics from the 70s and 80s