# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-hassan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:40.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-hassan"
name: "Steven Hassan"
slug: "steven-hassan"
description: "Steven Alan Hassan is an American mental health professional and author who specializes in the area of cults. In his early career, in the late 1970s, he participated in deprogramming, but since then has advocated non-coercive exit counseling."
tagline: "American mental health professional, author, and cult expert."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steven_Hassan_2012_Headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.439647168059424
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steven Hassan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump