2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American criminal and cult leader — who directed the Tate-LaBianca murders (1969) through his followers (the Manson Family) — whose case became the most culturally mythologized crime of the 20th century — serving as a symbol of the 1960s counterculture's dark side.
American author and founder of Scientology — who created Dianetics as a self-help system (1950), then transformed it into the Church of Scientology — one of the most controversial religious movements in American history.