Social isolation is promoted. Economic and other dependence on the group is fostered. Using rewards and punishments, efforts are made to establish considerable control over a person's social environment, time, and sources of social support. They are manipulated in such a way also to inhibit observable behavior that reflects the values, routines, and life organization the individual displayed before contact with the group. Disconfirming information and non-supporting opinions are prohibited in group communication.
Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders.
Communication is highly controlled. Attack the stability and quality of eva luations of self concepts. Frequent and intense attempts are made to cause a person to re-evaluate the most central aspects of their experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control, and defense mechanisms as well as getting them to reinterpret their life's history, and adopt a new version of causality, usually some non-Cartesian closed logic system. This tactic is the primary effective tactic of coercive persuasion.