The Dark Side of Psychology

Exploring the complicated ties between attachment, love, and unimaginable crimes.

Because sometimes that innocent bundle of joy is anything but…

It’s not just a matter of charisma and luck. Indoctrination is a precise art.

How the people you love seize control and keep it through brainwashing and dark persuasion.

Have you danced with the darkness? The sociopath is a personality type like no other…

And what it says about us as a society.

What flips the switch? What makes them commit the crimes that horrify and fascinate? Is it a matter of nature or nurture?

Some of us can’t get enough. What’s the science behind this fascination with the macabre?

From the random to the obscure, these are the cults you’ve never heard of (but you should have).