Ted "Black Lightning" Patrick's practice of "deprogramming," also known as "reverse brainwashing," started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultists-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from cults.
Ted Patrick
Mia Donovan
Matthew Robinson
Aaron Christ
Steve Capellini
Stephen A. Kent
Jim Siegelman
Flo Conway
Cheryl Prokosh
Kathy Crampton
Rick Alan Ross
Dan Eyink
Sondra Sacks
Ruth Patrick