Jean-Marie Abgrall, born April 12, 1950 in Toulon, France, is a French

France

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 psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

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, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult

Cult

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 consultant, and graduate in criminal law

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. He has been an expert witness

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 at the Supreme Court of Appeal and Court for Businesses in France

France

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 on the subject of cults, and analyst of cult deviances. In particular, he is most knowledgeable about Children of God

Children of God

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 and the Order of the Solar Temple

Order of the Solar Temple

The Order of the Solar Temple also known as Ordre du Temple Solaire in French, and the International Chivalric Organization of the Solar Tradition or simply as The Solar Temple was a secret society based upon the modern myth of the continuing existence of the Knights Templar...

, which he said maintained links with Gladio, NATO's stay-behind

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 organization during the Cold War

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. He also said that the AMORC

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis

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, of which he had been a member, had been related to Jacques Foccart

Jacques Foccart

Jacques Foccart was a chief adviser for the government of France on African policy as well as the co-founder of the Gaullist Service d'Action Civique in 1959 with Charles Pasqua, which specialized in covert operations in Africa.From 1960 to 1974, he was the President of France's chief of staff...

's networks. He has written many books on the subject, several of which are used as references. Various groups, including the Aumism movement and the Belgian Raelian Movement, have opposed Abgrall.

Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous

Sophie McLean referenced Drteam, and asserted a different opinion on-camera from the one he gave in his written, sealed report to Landmark Education.
Dr. Abgrall states :

It's not true that I said it's not a cult! I neither wrote that it is a cult nor that it's not a cult. I haven't taken a stance. My critique is of techniques that haven't been mastered at all. There is no control of a psychologist

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. They just put anyone in there, which means that if they guy takes a blow, he leaves alone in a daze, there's no one to take control for him. They don't exchange information, there's no real inspection of the technique. These guys aren't trained, as if tomorrow you set up shop as a psychotherapist. I mean, that's what's shocking.

Books

• Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults, by Jean-Marie Abgrall, Alice Seberry (Translator), December 1999, 296 pages, ISBN 978-1-892941-04-6, Algora Publishing, paperback
• Healing or Stealing?: Medical Charlatans in the New Age, by Jean-Marie Abgrall, Chantal Thomas, 2000
• Los Secuestradores de Almas, by Jean Marie Abgrall, 2005
• La Mecanique Des Sectes, by Jean-Marie Abgrall, 2002
• Tous manipulés, tous manipulateurs, by Jean-Marie Abgrall
• Les sectes de l'apocalypse: Gourous de l'an 2000, 1999
• Martin et le gourou by Jean-Marie Abgrall, 2001
• Sectes, gourous, etc... Eviter aux ados de se laisser piéger by Dominique Biton and Jean-Marie Abgrall