James Lindsay outlines Maoist struggle sessions from Lifton’s account of Dr. Lifton.
Then, he also applies this paradigm to social media bullying and possibly to school indoctrination.
Notice how very much like the initiation and process of a satanic cult: after bullying you into being silence in face of seeing abuse, then you are increasingly bullied into committing worse and worse abuse.
This might apply in some small measure to cults.
This is what I think my friends mean when they say that “mind-fucking” happens in some religious groups.