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Falun Gong diehards suffer fromdelusion-like subcultural belief
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FALUN GONG practitioners, who are firm in their belief in fallacies spread by Li Hongzhi, are suffering from what is termed as delusion-like subcultural belief in psychiatric medicine, said a doctor with Mental Hygienics Institute attached to Beijing University.
In an interview with Xinhua, Zhong Tongling said these people like to move in groups and share obvious features of destructive cults in the world, which often pose great danger to society.
Zhang has been engaged in professional research on pseudoscience and cults at the institute for about a decade.
According to Zhang, delusion-like subcultural belief is the faith shared by a group of people who do not have normal capacity for judgement and can hardly be persuaded with facts.
"Spiritually controlled by Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong diehards are firm with their belief in the fallacy of 'ascending to heaven', which is similar to a delusion," she said.
Zhang said that she has contacted 24 Falun Gong diehard members and found 21 of them have shown the tendency to suffer from delusion-like subcultural belief.
Being shocked at the serious degree of Falun Gong's control over the minds of the followers, Zhang said these people do not have a normal state of mind and their only righteous choice is to seek help from psychiatrists in hospitals. (Xinhua)
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