Alexandra Stein, Ph.D. is a writer and educator specializing in the social psychology of ideological extremism and other dangerous social relationships. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.

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Dr. Stein offers programs and materials to help people understand how to identify and protect themselves and others from recruitment to cultic or extremist groups. She also studies and teaches about positive social relationships: "small d" democracy, inclusivity and healthy social and personal networks that can oppose these dangerous relationships.

She offers the following services:

• Consulting for individuals and organisations 
• Cult recovery counselling, education and support for individuals
• Training for social workers, teachers, law enforcement, and mental health workers
• Talks and lectures
• Media Resource

Listen: Worldview podcast - Indepth interview on Public Radio, WBEZ Chicago

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Links to Full List of Books and Articles 
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Latest Book: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in cults and totalitarian systems, 2nd Edition. Routledge, 2021.

Statement for the Record for the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol: Political Cults and the Use of Cultic Tactics in the Recruitment and Mobilization of Participants in the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. Congressional Record. 2022

Summary and introduction articles:
Cult Attraction is Not a Problem of Logic. Fair Observer. 2015
Comprehending the Incomprehensible: A primer on how cults and ideologically extremist groups work

Alexandra Stein, Steve Hassan and Lois Kendall discuss "Are cults a hidden epidemic".