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Professional Profiles

Marvin Snider, Ph.D.

	Marvin Snider (Ph. D., Boston University) has been interested in social  influence at least since doing  his doctoral dissertation, the ÒRelationship Between Fear Arousal and Attitude Change.Ó Since then, he has been a family therapist in the Boston area, working with individual family members, parts of families, whole families, extended families, and even multiple families, bringing to bear not only typical psychotherapeutic modes but various activity therapies including art therapy, psychodrama, and recreational therapy. Along the way, Dr. Snider was  Chairman of the Family Therapy Committee on screening and consultation at the McLean Hospital (the major psychiatric affiliate of Harvard University Medical School) where he was also family therapist in the Adolescents in Crisis Project, and Co-Director of the program that set up the first intensive care center for the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. Since 1981, he has been Clinical Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
	 
 It was not until his daughter became a member of The Bible Speaks that Dr. Snider  began thinking explicitly about undue influence and mind control in cultic groups. His daughter was a college student when proselytizers from the group Ñ now notorious thanks to litigation by an heiress whom the leader persuaded to part with several million dollars Ñ induced her to join them. Dr. Snider was able to see, at barely one remove, how a cult recruited and maintained followers. Unlike most laymen in his situation, he also appreciated how, superficially, The Bible Speaks, and the many families that cleaved to it, looked quite normal. He and his wife, Faye Snider Ñ also a family therapist and AFF committee member Ñ did some very focused research, linked up with exit counselor David Clark, and prevailed upon their daughter to leave the group, coming safely with his family  through what he now describes as Òsome overwhelming crises.Ó 

	Cult manipulation represents for Dr. Snider only the most extreme form of social influence, at one end of a continuum which includes such outrages as the seduction of children and the garden-variety repression of autocratic parents. Thus, he believes that cultism can illuminate family dynamics as well as the workings of gangs and other situations involving close social control.

	In 1986, Dr. Snider, his wife, and Dave Clark presented a workshop on cults and mind control to the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the first of a number of presentations on cults for Dr. Snider. And in 1988, he gave a paper with clear ramifications for family cult involvements entitled ÒMourning as a Developmental Stage,Ó at the Conference on Loss, in Ballymaloe, Ireland.	
 
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