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[Maraya1969]

Pick your target
Offer them something they want
Make them feel special, wanted, loved
Then make that attention conditional, conditional on them doing and thinking what you want
Switch what they want to something grander. (And then later switch it to wanting you)
Criticize who they are in order to start unfreezing their personality
Separate them from the rest of the world and their past so you become their main source of information
Use fear and guilt to get them to think and make decisions differently
Keep them busy physically and mentally so they don't have time to reflect and disrupt normal functions like sleeping and eating.
Make them dependent on you and install phobias of leaving
Use rewards and punishments to freeze new ideas, beliefs and behaviors in place
Wash, rinse, repeat...

While I have listed these things in this order, at times there may be considerable overlap between them. It may be necessary to jump around from one step to another, or to go back and repeat several steps and there may be several items occurring at the same time, and so on.

These phases occur in a cult, in a work situation, in a social situation and in an intimate relationship, although they may seem different in each context. Let's look at each in more detail.

More:

https://www.decision-making-confidence.com/how-to-brainwash-someone.html