Only if you accept a definition of deprogramming that includes the implication of coercion. IMHO, deprogramming is—or should be—a general term with no implication of coercion.
I totally agree, and to avoid confusion over words, I was merely using the definition of deprogramming from the Wikipedia link you provided, where it says:
Deprogramming refers to actions that attempt to force a person to abandon allegiance to a religious, political, economic, or social group. Methods and practices may involve kidnapping and coercion. Similar actions, when done without force, are called “exit counseling”.
It doesn’t matter to me which words we choose to refer to these concepts with, as long as we make a distinction between types of exit counseling / deprogramming that involve coercion and types that don’t. Making that distinction with the two phrases “deprogramming” and “exit counseling” seems as good as any to me, although “coercive deprogramming” and “noncoercive deprogramming” is more clear to the layman and allows exit counseling to claim itself as a subset of noncoercive deprogramming.
I was merely using the definition of deprogramming from the Wikipedia link you provided, where it says:
Deprogramming refers to actions that attempt to force a person to abandon allegiance to a religious, political, economic, or social group. Methods and practices may involve kidnapping and coercion. Similar actions, when done without force, are called “exit counseling”.
Yes, but this is very bad terminology because it conceals unnecessary technical gumph (coercion) behind a perfectly ordinary-looking word (deprogramming). Of course, it should be:
I totally agree, and to avoid confusion over words, I was merely using the definition of deprogramming from the Wikipedia link you provided, where it says:
It doesn’t matter to me which words we choose to refer to these concepts with, as long as we make a distinction between types of exit counseling / deprogramming that involve coercion and types that don’t. Making that distinction with the two phrases “deprogramming” and “exit counseling” seems as good as any to me, although “coercive deprogramming” and “noncoercive deprogramming” is more clear to the layman and allows exit counseling to claim itself as a subset of noncoercive deprogramming.
Yes, but this is very bad terminology because it conceals unnecessary technical gumph (coercion) behind a perfectly ordinary-looking word (deprogramming). Of course, it should be:
(deprogramming (coercive deprogramming) (non-coercive deprogramming / exit counseling))