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A Force Upon the Plain: The American Mlitia Movement and the Politics of Hate - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
A Guide to New Religious Movements - Book Review by Rev. Dr. Richard Dowhower
A Matter of Basic Principles:  Bill Gothard and the Christian Life - Book Review by Rev. Dr. John Dillon
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They were Abducted by Aliens - book review by Ron Burks, Ph.D.
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind - book review by Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W.
All the Emperor’s Men - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India - Book Review by Thomas Robbins, Ph.D.
America’s Alternative Religions - book review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Anatomy of a Life Possessed - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Apologetics in the New Age: A Christian Critique of Pantheism - Book Review by Rev. Dr. R. Dowhower
Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ - book review by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Blurred Boundaries - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Boston Movement - book review
Bounded Choice - Book Review by J. A. Looney, Ph.D.
Captive Hearts Captive Minds - Book Review by Carol Giambalvo
Captives of a Concept: Understanding the Illusionary Concept that Holds Jehovah's Witnesses Captive - book review by Marcia Rudin
Cassadaga: The South’s Oldest Spiritual Community - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Celestine Prophecy - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Charles Mason Remey and the Bahá'í Faith - Book Review by Ron Burks, Ph.D.
Christian Millenarianism - Book Review by Rev. Dean Borgman
Christians in the Crossfire - Book Review by C. Lemieux, Ph.D.
Churches That Abuse - Book Review by M. T. Singer, Ph.D.
Churches That Abuse - Book Review by Maxine Pinson
Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Coping with Cult Involvement: A Handbook for Families and Friends - book review by Doni Whitsett, Ph.D.
Crazy Thearpies - Book Review by Keith Harray
Cults and Personality - Book Review by Lita L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Cults and the Occult - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Cults: Too Good to be True - book review by Livia Bardin, M.S.W.
Dangerous Persuaders - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Devotee Farm - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult - Book Review by Maxine Pinson
Emerging Network - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Enlightenment Blues - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
From Dean’s List to Dumpsters - Book Review by Daniel Shaw, C.S.W.
From Slogans to Mantras - Book Review by Doni Whitsett, Ph.D.
Gnostic Mystery - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law - Book Review by Edward Lottick, M.D.
God's Brothel - Book Review by Doni Whitsett, Ph.D.
Going Deeper - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Grandparents' Rights - book review by Robin Boyle, Esq.
Hare Krishna Transformed - book review by Marcia Rudin
Heart of Islam; The Caged Virgin; No god but God - book reviews by Joseph Szimhart
Help at Any Cost - Book Review by Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
Herding the Moo: Exploits of a Martial Arts Cult - Book Review by Marcia Rudin
Holy Madness; Mystery of Light - Book Reviews  by Joseph Szimhart
Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon’s Love Cult - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Hypocrisy and Dissent within the Findhorn Foundation: Towards a Sociology of a New Age Community - book review by Mari Tachikawa
I Can't Hear God Any More - book review by Lois Svoboda, M.D.
Imaginary Friends - book review by Joseph Szimhart
In the Shadow of the New Age: Decoding the Findhorn Foundation - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cults - book review by Dennis Tourish, Ph.D.
Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Jesus in an Age of Controversyi - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Justice Denied, What America Must  Do to Protect Its Children - book review by Andrea Moore-Emmett
Killer Cults - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Lambs to Slaughter: 14 Years with Elizabeth Clare Propheti - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Le Dico des sectes (The Dictionary of the Sects) - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Le Phenomene des Sectes. L'Etude du Fonctionnement des Groupes - Book Review by J. Vaillancourt
Leaders and Followers - Book Review by John Hochman, M.D.
Les Sectes - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune - book review by Alexandra Stein
Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism - Book Review by A. Bloomgarden, Ph.D.
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon- Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Madness and Evil—A Review of The Sullivanian Institute/Fourth Wall Community: The Relationship of Radical Individualism and Authoritarianism - Book Review by Daniel Shaw, C.S.W.
Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time - book review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Mind-Forged Manacles: Cults and Spiritual Bondage - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Misunderstanding Cults - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Monkey on a Stick - book review by Sandy Andron, Ed.D.
Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers - Book Review by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
My Life in Orange - Book Review by Lois Kendall, Ph.D.
New Age in Argentina: Fraud or Spiritual Growth? - Book Review by Gladys Martin
New Religions and the Nazis - book review by Alexander Andron, Ed.D.
Not Without My Sister; Jesus Freaks - booik review by Miriam Williams Boeri, Ph.D.
ocCULT: They Didn't Think it Could Happen in Their Church - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
On the Edge and Tabernacle of Hate - Book Review by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Opus Dei - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Orthodoxy and Heresy: Doctrinal Discernment - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult - book review by Mary Kochan
Out of the Cults and into the Church - book review by Patrick Knapp
People Who Play God - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Perspectives on the New Age - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Polygamy's Rape of Rachael Strong: Protected Environment for Predators - book review by Laura Weber
Power Games: Influence, Persuasion and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training - book review by Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP
Prophets of the Apocalypse: David Koresh - Book Review by Linda James
Psychology of Religion - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Recovering from Churches That Abuse - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Recovery from Abusive Groups - Book Review by Lee Anne Pellegrini, M.S.W.
Recovery From Cults - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Reincarnation: in Christianity - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Religion and Psychology - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology - book review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Sectas, Cuando el paraaiso es un infierno - Book Review by Gladys Martin
Sects & NRM - book review by Rev. Walter Debold
Servant of the Lotus Feet: A Hare Krishna Odyssey - book review by Nori Muster
Shamans and Religion; Dream Catchers - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Shattered Dreams; Escape; Stolen Innocence - 3 book reviewws by Livia Bardin, M.S.W.
Shooting for the Stars - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Spiritual Intelligence, the Behavioral Sciences, and the Humanities - book review by Rabbi A. J. Rudin
Spying in Guruland: Inside Britain’s Cults - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Strange Gods - Book Review by Jeanne Schuller, Ph.D.
Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse - Book Review by Maxine Pinson
Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships - book review by Doni Whitsett, Ph.D.
Take Me for a Ride - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill - book review by Anthony Stahelski, Ph.D.
Terrorismo Religioso: La Guerra del Siglo XXI. El Ataque al World Trade Center y al Pentágono - Book Review by Carmen Almendros, Ph.D.
The A to Z of New Religious Movements - book review by Rev. Dr. Richard Dowhower
The Battle for God - book review by Bonnie McKenzie
The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories - Book Review by Doni Whitset, Ph.D., LCSW
The Church Universal and Triumphant - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
The Cult Around the Corner - Book Review by S. K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
The Cult Experience: An Overview of Cults, Their Traditions and Why People Join Them - Book Review by L. J. West, M.D.
The Da Vinci Code - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
The Devil is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe - Book Review by J. Anna Looney, Ph.D.
The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth - book review by Katherine Masis
The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Heart of a Cult - book review by Gina Catena
The Matrix - film review by Vladimir Tumanov
The Mother of Godi - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
The Protest - book review by Marcia Rudin
The Religion that Kills: Christian Science, Abuse, Neglect, and Mind Control - - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Remnant - book Review by Hal Mansfield
The Rhetoric of Religious "Cults" Terms of Use and Abuse - book review by Matthew Forester
The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction - Book Review by Marybeth Ayella, Ph.D.
The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Superpower Syndrome - book review by Rev. Walter Debold
Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat - Book Review by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Theosophy and Culture: Nicholas Roerich - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Therapy Gone Mad: The True Story of Hundreds of Patients and a Generation Betrayed - Book Review by Doni Whitsett, Ph.D.
Urantia - book review by Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.
Varieties of Anomalous Experiences - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Walking Wounded - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Weapons of Fraud: A Source Book for Fraud Fighters - book reviewed by Colleen Russell, LMFT
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics - book review by Joseph Szimhart
What to Do When Psychotherapy Goes Wrong - Book Review by Marvin Snider, Ph.D.
When the Body is the Target - book review by Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.


Book Review: Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens ~

Book Review: Killers for God ~

Book Review: A Guide to New Religious Movements ~

Book Review: Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction ~

Book Review: Blessings of Liberty At What Price? ~

Book Review: Cult Alert ~

Book Review: Cults: What Parents Should Know ~

Book Review: It is Not Fantasy, it is the Church of Scientology ~

Book Review: Anti-Cult Movement in America ~

Book Review: Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed ~

Book Review: O is for Orange ~

Book Review: 1984 – ONCE MORE ~

Book Review: 400 Years of Imaginary Friends ~

Book Review: A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine" ~

Book Review: A Different Gospel ~

Book Review: A Force Upon the Plain ~

Book Review: A Matter of Basic Principles: Bill Gothard and the Christian Life ~

Book Review: A Time to Laugh ~

Book Review: All the Emperor's Men ~

Book Review: All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India ~

Book Review: America's Alternative Religions ~

Book Review: Anatomy of a Life Possessed by Maria Ferrara Pema ~

Book Review: Anti-Cult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective ~

Book Review: Apologetics in the New Age ~

Book Review: Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ ~

Book Review: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ~

Book Review: Behind the Watchtower Curtain ~

Book Review: Betrayal of the Spirit ~

Book Review: Bhagwan: The God That Failed ~

Book Review: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ~

Book Review: Blurred Boundaries ~

Book Review: Cults, Faith Healing, and Coercion ~

Book Review: Religion that Kills ~

Book Review: 400 Years of Imaginary Friends ~

Book Review: Koresh, Davidians ~

Book Review: Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults ~

Book Review: Boy Soldiers ~

Book Review: Captive Hearts, Captive Minds ~

Book Review: Captives of a Concept: Understanding the Illusionary Concept that Holds Jehovah’s Witnesses Captive ~

Book Review: Cassadaga: The South’s Oldest Spiritual Community ~

Book Review: Charles Mason Remey and the Bahá'í Faith ~

Book Review: Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco ~

Book Review: Christians in the Crossfire ~

Book Review: Churches That Abuse ~

Book Review: Churches That Abuse ~

Book Review: Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions ~

Book Review: Combatting Cult Mind Control ~

Book Review: Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir ~

Book Review: Corporate Cults ~

Book Review: Crazy Therapies ~

Book Review: Cult Controversies ~

Book Review: Cult Encounter ~

Book Review: Cults and Consequences ~

Book Review: Cults and New Religious Movements, Understanding Cults and New Religions ~

Book Review: Cults and Personality ~

Book Review: Cults and the Occult ~

Book Review: Cults in Our Midst ~

Book Review: Cults on Campus ~

Book Review: Cults, Culture, and the Law ~

Book Review: Cults, Sects and the New Age ~

Book Review: Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion ~

Book Review: Cults: Too Good to be True by Raphael Aron ~

Book Review: Dangerous Persuaders ~

Book Review: Daughters of the Goddess ~

Book Review: Deception by Design: The Mormon Story ~

Book Review: Destroying the World to Save It ~

Book Review: Devotee Farm ~

Book Review: Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult ~

Book Review: Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult; The Illustrated Encyclopedua of Active New Religions, Sects and Cults ~

Book Review: Enlightenment Blues: My Years with an American Guru ~

Book Review: Exit Counseling ~

Book Review: Exposé of Moon Organization ~

Book Review: Feet of Clay ~

Book Review: Fire & Blood, The True Story of David Koresh ~

Book Review: God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law ~

Book Review: God’s Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped ~

Book Review: Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of Your Life When Your Life Makes No Sense ~

Book Review: Grandparents’ Rights: What Every Grandparent Needs to Know ~

Book Review: Handbook of Religious Experience ~

Book Review: Help At Any Cost ~

Book Review: Herding the Moo: Exploits of a Martial Arts Cult ~

Book Review: Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon’s Love Cult ~

Book Review: Holy Smoke ~

Book Review: How to Rescue Your Loved One from Mormonism ~

Book Review: Hypocrisy and Dissent within the Findhorn Foundation ~

Book Review: I Can’t Hear God Anymore ~

Book Review: In Pursuit of Satan ~

Book Review: In the Shadow of the Moons ~

Book Review: In the shadow of the new age: Decoding the Findhorn Foundation ~

Book Review: Index of Watchtower Errors ~

Book Review: Influence: The New Psychology of Modern Persuasion ~

Book review: Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult ~

Book Review: Inside the Children of God ~

Book Review: Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer ~

Book Review: Jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore ~

Book Review: Jesus in an Age of Controversy ~

Book Review: Killer Cults: Murderous Messiahs and Their Fanatical Followers. ~

Book Review: La persuasione socialmente accellata ~

Book Review: Lambs to Slaughter ~

Book Review: Le Phénomène des Sectes. L'Étude du Fonctionnement des Groupes ~

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