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1984 – ONCE MORE

2012 Paul R. Martin Lecture - Thought Reform

2013 Conference Awards at ICSA Annual International Conference

A 30-year Odyssey.doc

A Catholic Viewpoint on Christian Evangelizers

A Code of Ethics for the Christian Evangelist

A Comment on David McKenzies Teaching Students Who already Know the Truth

A Comment Upon the Debate Between Scheflin Karlin and Orne

A Comparison of Different Countries' Approaches

A Few Things I've Learned

A Hypothetical Example

A Personal Experience of TM

A Psychoanalytic Look at Recovered Memories

A Psychoanalytic Look at Recovered Memories

A Psychosocial Analysis of the Terrorist Group

A Recovery-from-Addictions Model

A Rejoinder to James Chancellor’s Response to My Article

A Remarkable Consensus

A Reply to Enroth

A Response to James D. Chancellor’s Life in The Family An Oral History of the Children of God

A Response to Perry Bulwer’s Evaluation of Life in the Family

A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community

A Single-Case Design Implementing Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with an Ex-Cult Member

A Statement of Evaluation Regarding Maranatha

A Workshop for People Born or Raised in Cultic Groups

Aberrations of Power Leadership in Totalist Groups

Abstract Surrealism—My Journey Back to Myself After ISKCON

Abuso Psicológico en Grupos: Taxonomía y Severidad de sus Componentes

Academic Disputes and Dialogue

Acceptance Speech: Carolle Tremblay

Acceptance Speech: Dr. Stephen Kent

AFF 2002 Conference Reports Introduction

AFF Statement on China and Falun Gong

Aid and Assistance for Consumer Damages from Religious Activities

An Ethic for Christian Evangelism

An Example for Controversy Creating a Model for Reconciliation

An Exit Counselors Perspective

An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form?

An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group

An Open Letter to Clergy

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Predicaments The Truth, Deceit, and Issues Surrounding Falun Gong

Antisocial Personality Disorder in Cult Leaders

Anxiety and Decision-Making

Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive

Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful

Are Terrorists Cultists

Arousal Capacity and Intense Indoctrination

Art - Memories

Art - Pomery

Art and Authority

Arts A 30-Year Odyssey

Aspects of Alternative Spirituality

Aspects of Concern Regarding Legion of Christ

Assessment of Psychological Abuse

Attacks on Peripheral vs Central Elements of Self

Aum Shinrikyo and Its Weapons of Mass Destruction

Austrian Perspectives on Cults

Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON

Authority Its Use and Abuse

Autobiography of a Former Moonie

Avoiding Extremes in Defining Extremist Cult

Back From the Brink

Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ

Bible Cult Mind Control 101

Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion

Blind or Just Don't Want to See

Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism

Born Into a Doomsday Cult

Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups

Boston Church of Christ Movement

Boston Church of Christ Movement Abridged

Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God

Brainwashing and the Moonies

Brief Report-Perceived Psychological Abuse and the Cincinnati Church of Christ

Building Resistance - Tactics for Counteracting Manipulation and Unethical Hypnosis

Business and the New Age Movement

By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them - Case of the Legion

Campus Crusade--Youth Ministers Find

Can Hypnosis Explain Cult Conversion

Can Scholars Be Deceived

Challenging Authority

Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement

Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups

Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups

Charismatic Covenant Community

Charismatic Leadership

Charismatic Leadership and Corporate Cultism at Enron

Checks on Power and Authority

Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement

Child Custody and Cults

Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect

Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community

Children and Cults

Children and Cults: A Practical Guide

Choosing A Church

Christian Evangelism and Social Responsibility

Cleansing Ritual

Clinical and Diagnostic Issues of Cultism Group Dependence Disorder

Clinical Bibliography

Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members

Clinical Update on Cults

Closed Cults Open Conferences

Clubs, Neotribal Enclaves and Cults: Variations on the Theme of Organizing Members

Coerced Confessions

Coercion, Power, and Control: Cultic Dynamic in Intimate Relationships 

Cold Reading

College Students and Religious Groups in Japan

Column: Getting Help

Coming Back Home

Coming out of the Cults

Comment on “The Rhetoric of Religious ‘Cults’ Terms of Use and Abuse”

Comment on Leeds

Comment on Opus Dei

Comment on Review of The Devil is a Gentleman

Comment on Shipwrecked in the Spirit

Comment on Shipwrecked in the Spirit - Duggan

Commentary on Borawick V Shay - Karlin

Commentary on Borawick v Shay - Scheflin

Commentary on Nori Muster’s Article

Comment--Reducing Conflict and Enhancing Quality of Life in Israel

Comments

Comments-Stenders Some Rigors of Our Times

Common Myths and Misconceptions About Cults and Cultic Groups

Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions

Compassion Betrayed Spiritual Abuse in an American Zen Center

Comprehensive Bibliography ISKCON

Confessions of a Cult Watcher

Conflict Between Aum Critics and Human-Rights Advocates in Japan

Contemporary Uses of the Brainwashing Concept

Contemporary Uses of the Brainwashing Concept 2000 to Mid-2007

Contributions of the Inter-Varsity Team

Contributions of the Inter-Varsity Team - Introduction

Conversion-Religious Change Challenge of NRM

Coping with Cult Involvement A Handbook for Families and Friends

Coping with Triggers

Correspondents' Reports

Counseling and Involvements in NRMs

Counseling Cultists and Their Families

Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach

Court Decisions Exit Counseling

Crazy Wisdom

Creating the Illusion of Mind Reading

Creativity and Cults

Creativity and Cults from Sociological and Communication Perspectives

Cult A Love Story

Cult Awareness Groups and NRM Scholars

Cult Conversion Deprogramming and the Triune Brain

Cult Experience Psychological Abuse Distress Personality Characteristics

Cult Formation

Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents

Cult Is As Cult Does

Cult Pseudo-Creativity vs. Creativity in Recovery

Cult Violence and the Identity Movement

Cult vs Non-Cult Jewish Families

Cultic Dimensions London Bombings

Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom

Cultic Studies Bibliography

Cultic Studies Bibliography 2003

Cult-Induced Psychopathology

Cultish Religious Sects and Politics The Brethren v. Greens Contest and Other Controversies Involving Minor Religious Sects Down Under

Cultism and American Culture

Cultism, Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Cultism: A Conference for Scholars-Policy Makers

Cults A Natural Disaster

Cults and Children

Cults and Children The Abuse of the Young

Cults and Families

Cults and Globalization

Cults and Religious Privileges in England and Australia Can the Wheat be Separated from the Chaff

Cults and Sex Trafficking

Cults and Terrorism

Cults and the European Parliament

Cults Evangelicals and the Ethics of Social Influence

Cults Freedom of Belief Freedom of Religion

Cults Go To High School

Cults in America

Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis

Cults in Court

Cults in Japan

Cults in Latin America

Cults of Hatred

Cults on Campus Perceptions of Chief Counseling Officers

Cults Psychological Abuse and Thought Reform

Cults What Clergy Should Know

Cults, Coercion, and Contumely

Cults, Conversion, Science, and Harm

Cults, Conversion, Science, and Harm

Cults, Creativity, and Folie Psychoanalytic Considerations

Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society

Cults, Religion, and China

Cults, State Control, and Falun Gong

Culture Shock - The Challenge of Building or Rebuilding a Life

Curiosity and Willingness to Learn

Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women & Children

Custody and Forensic Issues - Readings

Dallas Former Member Support Group

Death of a Moonie Reflections of a Blessed Child

Deception in Transcendental Meditation

Deception in Transcendental Meditation

Deception, Dependency, and Dread

Denouement of the Prophets’ Cult The Church Universal and Triumphant in Decline

Deprogramming A Case Study

Deprogramming Ethics

Deprogramming Survey

Deprogramming: A Case Study 2

Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.

Development of the Study of Mind Control in Japan

Devotees and Their Parents

Dialogue and Cultic Studies

Diana Play Therapy

Diana, Leaving the Cult

Disciple Abuse

Divergent European Cult Policies

Domestic Violence as a Cultic System

Dominance and Submission

Doomsday Religious Movements - Canadian Security Intelligence Report

Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor

Dynamics Spirit Abuse

Dysfunctional Churches

Editor’s Comment on “Opus Dei Over Time”

Editor’s Corner

Editors Introduction - Borawick vs. Shay Discussion

Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and their Implications for Children

Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults

Enemies Within - Conflict and Control in the Baha i Community

Ethical Evangelism

Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants

Ethics in Proselytizing - A Jewish Perspective

Ethics of Evangelism

European Muslims

Evaluating Your Cult Involvement

Evangelicals and Cults

Evangelism - Persuasion or Proselytizing

Evangelism and Freedom in the Catholic Church

Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming

Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups

Expanding the Groupthink Explanation

Extrapolation, Exaggeration, or Exculpation

Fair Game

False Memory and Buridans Ass

Falun Gong and the World

Families Helping Families

Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis

Family Environment as a Factor in Vulnerability

Family Formation Culture Change in ISKCON

Family Life In and Out of a Cult

Family Perspectives on Involvements

Family Responses to a Young Adults

Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification

Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica

Film Review - Generation War Our Fathers, Our Mothers

Film Review The Matrix Cult

Finding and Losing My Religion

For Families Who Suspect That a Loved One May Be Involved With a High-Demand Group (Cult)

Former Members and Health-Care Reform

Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement

Forty Years in the Wilderness

Frankl Revisited

Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik

Free Speech Survey Report

Freedom of the Mind

Freemen Soverign Citizens

French Publications On Cultic Phenomena

From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections

From Counterfeit to Truth

From Deprogramming to Deradicalization

From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation

From Survivor to Thriver

From the Fire to a Blessing Field

Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON

Further Reflections on Child Abuse Within ISKCON

Gender Attributes That Affect Women's Attraction

Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of GodThe Family

Getting Involved in a Cult

Gods Company--New Age Ethics

Government, Thought Reform, and Native History

Governments and Cults

Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery

Group Influence and Psych of Cultism within

Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents

Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña

Guidelines for Opus Dei: Statement by Cardinal Hume

Harm and New Religious Movements (NRMs) Some Notes on a Sociological Perspective

Harm and NRMs Perspectives From Psychology

Harm and NRMs Perspectives from Religious Studies, Sociology, and Psychology - Introduction

Have Cults Declined

Healing From Experiences

Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die

History and Purpose of Model Presentations

History of American Family Foundation

History of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center

House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem

How a Dysfunctional Family Functions Like a Cult

How Can Faith Communities Help Survivors of Spiritual Abuse?

How Can Young People Protect Themselves

How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults

How Children in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws

How Could Anyone Join a Cult

How Should Communities Movemnt Handle Qns of Abuse

How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults

How to Find Information on a Group

How to Talk to People Who are Trying to Save You

How We Rescued Our Daughter

How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One

Hypnosis and the Iatrogenic Creation of Memory

I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right

ICSA Cults and Government

ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model

Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism

Ideology, Demonization, and Scholarship The Need for Objectivity—A Response to Robbins' Comments on Rosedale, the Chinese Government, and Falun Gong

Illegal Missionary Work Lawsuits and Exit Counseling for Unification Church Members

Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group

Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher

Imposed Anorexia A Model of Dietary Restriction in Four Ideological Groups

In favor of Per Se Exclusion of Hypnotically Influenced Testimony

In Good Faith

In the shadow of the new age Decoding the Findhorn Foundation.

Influence

Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader

Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned

Inner Experience

Innocent Murderers Abducted Children in the Lord’s Resistance Army

Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology

Interacting with Cults: Police

Interesting Times

International Churches of Christ Introduction

International Cultic Studies Association, Cults, and Government

Introduction - We Own Her Now

Introduction to Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence

Introduction to Discussion with Johannes Aagaard

Introduction to Group Report on ISKCON

Introduction to Inaugural Issue

Introduction to the ICSA 2007 Annual Conference

Introduction to the Monograph

Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue

Introductory Note to Family Studies

Is Falun Gong a “Cult”

Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?

Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults

Is the New Age Movement Harmless

ISKCON in the News - Cult Observer 1984-1999

ISKCON Response to Child Abuse

Japan Society

Japanese Activities to Counter Cults

Jehovahs Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech

Jones on Jesus

Judgment by the Fukuoka

Just Joking

Krishna Venta

Large Group Awareness Trainings

Le Phénomène des Sectes. L'Étude du Fonctionnement des Groupes

Leaving a Cult for Music

Legal Analysis of Intent

Legal Considerations

Legal Decision-Borawick V Shay

Les rapports d’inspection des écoles privées

Lessons From Adjacent Fields: Cults and Radical Extremist Groups

Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency

Lets Get Lost

Letter to a Former Member

Letters - A Comment on "Cult Conversion

Letters - Confessions of a "Cult" Watcher: An Alternative Point of View

Letters - Euphemizing Dramatic Intervention

Letters A Comment on "Cult Conversion, Deprogramming and the Triune Brain"

Life After Centrepoint

Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults

Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

Lost Love

Lustful Prophet

Lying in Court and Religion

Manipulative Therapists

Marriage After the Cult

Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies

Meditation, Delusion and Deception

Mental Health Interventions

Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions

Meredith Poems

Methodological Fallacies in Anthony’s Critique of Exit Cost Analysis

Mind Control - Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric

Mind Control and the Battering of Women

Mind Control in New Religious Movements

Moments of Grace

Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins

More Than the Devils Due

Mothers in cults

Movie Review - Martha Marcy May Marlene

Moving On: Dealing With Family Members Who Have Caused Us Harm

My Experience in YWAM

My Perspective of Rosanne Henry and Leona Furnari's Presentation to the Annual SGA Workshop

My Unexpected Journey

My Voice

Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership

Narcissistic Fraud in the Ancient World Lucian’s Account of Alexander of Abonuteichos and the Cult of Glycon

Never Say Die

New Books on Polygamy

New Organizations Operating Under

New Religions and Public Policy

News Summaries

Nishida Kimiaki Figure

Nishida Kimiaki Table 1

Nishida Kimiaki Table 2

No Place to Go - Life in a Prison Without Bars

Nothing Need Go to Waste

Objectionable Aspects of Cults

Of Cults and Evangelicals

Of Urinals and Dark Forces

On Avatar

On Breaking the Code of Silence

On Conversations with God

On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers

On Ken Wilber

On Resisting Social Influence

On the Outside Looking In Growing Up in the Moonies

On Using the Term "Cult"

Opus Dei Over Time

Origins and Prevention of Abuse

Outreach to Ex-Cult Members: The Question of Terminology

Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization

Overview: Support Groups

Panel: Can Cultic Groups Change

Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha

Parental Responses

Pathological Psychoanalysis

Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture

Peace at Last

Perceived Psychological Abuse

Perfect Master or Perfect Psychopath

Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film

Personality - Belief in the Paranormal

Perspectives on Cults As Affected by the September 11th Tragedy

Persuasive Techniques - Contemp Cults

Physical Child Abuse in Sects

Pink Slip

Pitfalls to Recovery

Pluralism, Deeds, Creeds, and Cults

Poetry - Kocsis

Poetry: Donna Y. Orme-Collins

Poetry: Heather

Poetry: Jessica

Poetry: Lois Eaton

Poetry: MLP

Poetry: Moseley

Poetry: Nieland

Poetry: Welch

Poety - DeGraff

Point of View - it 1.1

Point of View - it 1.2

Point of View - it 3.2

Point of View - it 3.3

Point of View - it 4.1

Point of View - it 4.2

Point of View - it 4.3

Point of View - it 5.1

Point of View - IT 5.2

Points for Pastors

Post-Cult After Effects

Post-Cult Financial Recovery

Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo

Post-Cult Problems: An Exit Counselor's Perspective

Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI

Prayer - Free Mandates Removed from Federal Health Care Bills

Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies

Prevalence

Preventative Ed for High School Students

Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe

Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg

Prevention Program on Psychologically Manipulative Techniques

Preventive Education - A North American Perspective

Problem Solving An Approach

Profile - Caparesi

Profile - dimarzio

Profile - Eichel

Profile - Giambalvo

Profile - Goldberg

Profile - Goldberg - Bill

Profile - Griess

Profile - Henry

Profile - Jarva

Profile - Kent

Profile - Kropveld

Profile - Miquelon

Profile - Monroney

Profile - Pardon Judy

Profile - Pardon Robert

Profile - Pelland

Profile - Pletts

Profile - Pressley

Profile - Rardin

Profile - Rodriguez

Profile - Ryan

Profile - Saldana

Profile - Stamler

Profile - Tremblay

Profile - Vane

Profile on Ronald Loomis

Prologue - The Evangelicals Set Forth Their Case

Promises and Illusions

Prophets of the Apocalypse

Proposing a Bill for Intentional Communities

Prosecuting an Ex-Members Undue Influence Suit

Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse

Pseudo-dentity and Treatment

Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories

Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Word of Life

Psychoanalysis and Cult Affiliation

Psychogroups and Cults in Denmark

Psychological Abuse

Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues

Psychological Coercion and Human Rights

Psychological Distress in Former ICC

Psychological Issues of Former Fundamentalists

Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber

Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion

Psychologists Survey

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the GPA

Psychosocial Evaluation-Suspected Psychological

Psychotherapy and the New Religions

Psychotherapy Cults

Psychotherapy Cults - an Ethical Analysis

Psychotherapy of a Casualty from a Mass Therapy Encounter Group

Psychotherapy With Ex-Cultists

Questionnaire for Former Cult Members: Results

Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report

Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse

Questions from the Balcony A Critique of Dick Anthony

Raised in Cultic Groups

Razor’s Edge Indeed A Deprogrammer’s View of Harmful Cult Activity

Reading List: Undue Influence 101

Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior

Reasons for Leaving

Reasons for Leaving Psychological Abuse and Distress Reported by Former Members of Cultic Groups

Rebuilding the Jigsaw

Reclaiming Life Stories

Recovery: From Victim to Survivor to Thriver

Reflecting on Cultural Diversity in Response to Cultic Activity

Reflections on Falun Gong and the Chinese Government

Reflections on Marriage and Children After the Cult

Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery

Reflections on the Legion

Reintegration of Exiting Cult Members

Reject the Wicked Man

Religion et Secte

Religion Versus Cult

Religion, Revisionists, and Revolutionary Suicide

Religious Cults, Human Rights, and Public Policy: The Secular Perspective

Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse Statutes

Religious Freedom At Secular Schools

Religious Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults

Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements

Religious Pluralism Dialogue

Religious Recoding

Reply to Dr Robbins

Reply to Xie

Report of the Task Force

Report of the Task Force Summary

Research on Destructive Cults

Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse

Residence Halls and Cults - Fact or Fiction

Residential Treatment: The Potential for Cultic Evolution

Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents

Resolution on Missionaries and Deprogramming

Responding to Jihadism

Response to Child Abuse Articles

Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times

Returning to Cosmology

Ritual Child Abuse: Controversy

Ritual of Separation An Integrative Guideline for Helping Clients from High-Intensity Faith Groups

Ritualistic Abuse of Children

Role of Women in ISKCON

Satanism and Occult-Ritual Activity

Saved by Our Son

Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups A Partial Model

Second Thoughts on Cultic Involvement and Addictive Relationships

Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors

Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults

Seeking Accurate Information Part I

Selections From Second Vatican Councils

Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members

Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes

Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis

Shepherding/Discipleship

Shipwrecked in the Spirit

Sifting the Wheat from the Tares

Sister My Sister

Six Conditions

Sleep Deprivation

Social Influence: Ethical Considerations

Social Influences on Youth

Some Hazards of the Therapeutic Relationship

Some New Religions Are Dangerous

Some Rigors of Our Time Comments

Some Rigors of Our Times

Some Things I Learned

Some Thoughts on Conducting Research with Former Members

Sounding Creativity

Special Collection - Recovery from Cults - A Pastoral-Psychological Dialogue

Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments

Spiritual Harm in New Religions

Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality

Spotlight on Anthroposophy

Stairway to Heaven

State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor

State of Israel Report

Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison

Strongly Held Views About the New Age

Supporting Human Rights

Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey

Survey Physicians

Survivor Nineninethree

Svoboda Wellspring Modification Proposal Draft

Symposium with Johannes Aagaard

Task Force Study of Ritual Crime

Teaching Students Who Already Know the Truth

Teaching Young People

Teenage Spirituality and the Internet

Ten Steps to Critical Thinking

Terror and Terrorism A History of Ideas and Philosophical-Ethical Reflections

Terror in the Name of God

Terrorism and Cultic Dynamics

Terrorism and Cults

Terrorist Motivations, Extreme Violence, and the Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Terrorist Organizations Are Cults

Terrorists Are Made, Not Born

The ABCs of Dangerous Cults

The Appeal of the Impossible

The Art of Hoping - Anonymous

The Boundaries Between Cultic

The Cadre Ideal

The Challenge of Defining Cult

The Chemistry of a Conflict The Chinese Government and the Falun Gong

The Children of God/The Family

The Council of Europes Report on Sects and NRM

The Crimes and Teachings of Aum Shinrikyo

The Cult Appeal-Susceptibilities of the Missionry Kid

The Cult Movement Ukraine - Petukhov

The Cult of Parenthood A Qualitative Study of Parental Alienation

The Cult That Is North Korea

The Dark Underside-Cultic

The Death of a Leader Homicide as a Means of Group Disengagement

The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult

The Effect of Religious Cults on Westrn Mainstrm Relgn

The Ethics of Blodless Medicine

The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment

The Ethics of Persuasion in a Pluralistic

The Evolution of a Cult and a Support Group for the Families of Its Members The Jim Roberts Group and The Roberts Group Parents Network

The Experience of the SPES Foundation

The False Transformational Promise of Bible-Based Cults

The Falun Gong: Beyond the Headlines

The Genesis, Text, and Implications of Utah House Bill 214: Office for Victims of Crime Amendments

The Gentle Wind Project

The Grammatical Fiction

The Group Psychological Abuse Scale

The Helpmate of Males An Ethnography on Sex Segregation and Theocracy

The Historical Dimension of Cultic Techniques

The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members

The Identity of Cult Members in the Narrative Aspect

The Impact of a Modern-Day Polygamy Group on Women

The Individual Cult Experience Index

The Influence Continuum

The Influence of Persuasive Strategies Used by Cultic Groups in the Context of Forewarning

The International Churches of Christ Movement

The Internet as a New Place for Sects

The Involvement of College Students In Totalist Groups

The Last Draw—Cults and Creativity

The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation

The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective

The Making of a Disciple in the International Churches of Christ

The Marriage of the Lamb

The Millennium is Here

The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace

The Perils of Persuasive Preaching

The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship

The PRC and Falun Gong

The Problems and Possibilities of Defining Precise Criteria to Distinguish Between Ethical and Unethical Proselytizing Evangelism

The Prophet's Fall A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster's The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma

The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment

The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership

The Psychology of Religious Genius Joseph Smith and the Origins of New Religious Movements

The Rabbi and the Sex Cult

The Red Mosque

The Red Mosque: A Case Study

The Relation of Group Philosophy

The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist

The Religion that Kills Christian Science, Abuse, Neglect, and Mind Control.

The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire

The Role of Cognitive Distortion

The Role of the Family

The Seven-Stage Hate Model The Psychopathology of Hate Groups

The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult

The Spiritual Crucible

The Spread of Ásatrú in Vinland

The Strategic Interaction Approach

The Teenage Dissent of Newman

The Teenage Dissent of Newman and Unamuno Conscience as a Safeguard Against Coercive Manipulation

The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control

The Threat of Entrepreneurial Freedom and Intitiative

The Two Camps of Cultic Studies

The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx

The Use of Transcendental Meditation to Promote

The Utilization of Hypnotic Techniques

The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements

The Violence of Jim Jones A Biopsychosocial Explanation

The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism

The Work of the German Sudwest Network

Thought Reform Exists

Thought Reform Programs

To the Reader and Comments

Too Good to be True Teacher

Touched: Disconfirming Pathogenic Beliefs of Thought Reform Through the Process of Acting

Training Issues for Cult Treatment Programs

Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism, and the Spirituality Paradigm

Translation of Abstracts

Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva

Traumatic Abuse in Cults

Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Treatment of Satanism

Trouble in Paradise

Twenty-Five Years Observing Cults An American Perspective

Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo

Un modèle d’intervention auprès des proches d’adeptes le concept de co-adepte

Understanding Eastern Groups

Undue Influence in Contract and Probate Law

Undue Influence Psychological Aspects

Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions

Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse

Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool A Case Study of Heaven’s Gate

Video Review - What Is A Cult and How Does it

Vulnerability

Warning Meditating May Be Hazardous to Your Health

We Disagree - Let's Talk!

We Weren't Crazy

What Changed My Mind

What Counselors Should Know About Cultic Dynamics

What Do We Need to Know About Being Born or Raised in a Cultic Environment?

What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member

What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member’s Family

What Is a Cult

What Is a Cult Definitional Preface

What is Evangelism

What is Hypnosis

What is New Age

What Is the Impact of Leaving a Cultic Group

What Messages Behind Cults

What Should be Done about Cults

What Should We Do About Cults: An Italian Perspective

What You Might Want To Know About

When Critical Thinking Doesn't Help Why It Fails and How to Make It Happen

When Endings Are Beginnings David’s Story

When the Cult Leader Hoists a Whilte Flag

When You're Asked About Cults

Why Cultic Groups Develop and Flourish

Why Cults Are Harmful Neurobiological Speculations

Why Did I Endure

Why Evangelicals are Vulnerable to Cults

Why I Had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult

Why Waldorf Programs are Unsuitable for Public Funding

Why We Need To Become Spiritual Consumers

Wifely Subjection--Mental Health Issues in JW Women

Wild Geese

Women and Cults-A Lawyers Perspective

Women Elderly Children in Religious Cults

Women the Law and Cults

Working with Cult-affected Families

Working with Women Survivors of Cults

Writing Betrayal of the Spirit

Writing Down the Pain

You Do Not Have to Be a Fool to Be Fooled

Zealotry and American Identity

Zen and the Art of Student Abuse

Zhu Response to Editor Comments