|
Time |
Event |
Room / Track |
|
8:00 a.m.
–
6:00
p.m.
|
Bookstore
Friday - Sunday |
|
|
Thursday, June 26 – Pre-Conference Workshops |
|
9:00 – 10:00 |
Registration |
|
10:00 – 5:00 |
Workshop for
Former Group
Members
Carol Giambalvo;
Joseph Kelly
[For ex-members only] |
Ex-Member |
|
10:00 – 5:00 |
Workshop for
Family Members
Michael Langone,
Ph.D.; Patrick
Ryan; Ron Loomis |
Family |
|
10:00 – 5:30 |
Workshop for
Mental Health
Professionals
Testifying in
Court
(William
Goldberg,
M.S.W., L.C.S.W.)
– 10:00 a.m. –
11:00 a.m.
Clinical Issues:
Working with
First-Generation
Former Cultists
(Rachel
Bernstein, MS.Ed.,
LMFT) – 11:00
a.m. – 12:00
p.m.
Clinical Issues:
Working with
Second-Generation
Former Cultists
(Leona Furnari,
M.S.W.; Michael
Martella, M.F.T.)–
1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
Clinical Issues:
Working with
Families (Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Roberta
Eisenberg,
M.S.W.) – 2:15 –
3:15 p.m.
Clinical Roundtable for Mental Health
Practitioners (Facilitator:
Gillie Jenkinson,
M.A.) – 3:30 –
5:00 p.m.
[For mental health professionals only] |
Mental Health |
|
varies |
Lunch |
|
varies |
Break |
|
5:00 – 7:00
|
Dinner Break |
|
6:00 –
11:00 |
ICSA Social at
the Sheraton
University Hotel |
Fairmont Room |
|
7:00 – 9:00
|
Optional Discussion Session: Born or Raised
Michael Martella,
M.A.; Joyce
Martella
[Session is only
for people born
or raised in
high-demand
groups.] |
Ex-Member |
|
7:00 – 9:00 |
Introductory Workshop for Mental Health Professionals
Rosanne Henry,
M.A., L.P.C.;
Rachel
Bernstein, Ms.Ed.,
LMFT; Leona
Furnari, M.S.W. |
Mental Health |
|
7:00 – 9:00 |
Research Network Meeting
Rod Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Friday, June 27 |
|
8:00 – 9:00 |
Registration |
|
9:00 – 9:30 |
Welcome and
Introduction
Phil Elberg;
Michael D.
Langone, Ph.D
Awards
William
Goldberg, M.S.W. |
|
|
9:30 – 10:30 |
The Violent
Outcomes of
Ideological
Extremism: What
Have We Learned
Since Jonestown?
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D. |
Keynote Address |
|
10:30 –11:00 |
Break |
|
11:00 – 12:30 |
Coping with Triggers
Carol Giambalvo;
Joseph Kelly
[For ex-members
only] |
Ex-Member |
|
The Boundary Between Cultic and Benign in Spiritual Groups
Elliot Benjamin,
Ph.D.
Problems With
Justification:
How to Critique
Cults Without
Asking "How
Abusive Was Your
Experience?
Alicia Juskewycz |
Research |
|
Cults on Trial:
Issues for the
Forensic Mental
Health Cult
Expert
(Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP
[For mental
health
professionals
only] |
Mental Health |
|
Myths,
Misnomers, and
Missed Signals:
Demystifying
Cult Research
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D., Moderator
The Naming Game:
Why Academics
Should be
Concerned about
Terms
Miriam Boeri, Ph.D.
What the
Scholars Missed
and Why they
Missed Them: A
Retrospective
Examination of
Several Major
“Cult” Stories
from the End of
the Twentieth
Century
Stephen A. Kent,
Ph.D. |
Research |
|
How Grief Becomes Disenfranchised When Losing a Child
Rosanne Henry,
M.A., L.P.C. |
Family |
|
Influence, Law, and Ethics in the 21st Century
Alan Scheflin,
J.D., LL.M.;
Discussants: .;
Francois
Bellanger,
Ph.D.; Rod
Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D.; Masaki
Kito, Esq; Paul
Martin, Ph.D. |
Legal |
|
12:30 – 2:00 |
Lunch
|
|
|
|
Special Lunch
Discussion
Session: On
Going to College
or Graduate
School After a
Cult Experience
Moderator: Janja
Lalich, Ph.D.
(Meet at the
conference
bookstore. If
you haven’t
already, e-mail
Dr. Lalich at
jlalich@csuchico.edu).
Open only to
ex-members. |
|
|
2:00 – 3:30 |
Starting Out: A Discussion of Key Practical Issues People Face
When They Leave
Cults—Housing, Employment, Education, Social Skills, etc.
Livia Bardin,
M.S.W. |
Ex-Member |
|
Authentic
Writing and Cult
Recovery
Daniel Shaw,
LCSW, Moderator;
Fred Poole;
Marta Szabo |
Ex-Member |
|
The Use of
Coercive
Influence by the
Tough Love
Industry
Phil Elberg,
Esq.; Maia
Szalavitz |
Group |
|
Risk Factors for Therapists Working with Individuals and Families
Who have been
Affected by
Destructive
Cults
Linda J.
Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D.
The Continuum of
Influence in
Addictions
Treatment: From
Therapeutic
Alliance to
Undue
Linda J.
Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D.; Roberta
Eisenberg,
M.S.W.; Steven
Eisenberg |
Mental Health |
|
Dissociation and
Depression in
Treatment-Seeking
Former Members
of Contemplative
Cults
Donna Adams,
Ph.D.
An Empirical
Examination of
Psychological
Symptomatology
among Different
Coercive Group
Types
Paul R. Martin,
Ph.D.; Nicole
Gullekson, Brian
Uhlin & Lindsay
Orchowski
The Wellspring
Treatment Model
for Victims of
Cults and Cultic
Relationships:
Research and
Mental Health
Paul R. Martin,
Ph.D.; Donna
Adams, Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Religious Conflict Resolution for Families
Michael D.
Langone, Ph.D.;
Patrick Ryan |
Family |
|
History of
Japan’s National
Network of
Lawyers Against
Spiritual Sales
and the Japan
Society for Cult
Prevention and
Recovery
Shuji Nakamura
Esq, Masaki Kito
Esq, Taro
Takimoto Esq. |
Legal |
|
3:30 –4:00 |
Break |
|
4:00 –5:30 |
Special Session
for Born or
Raised (Second
Generation)
Michael
Martella, MFT;
Joyce Martella
[For
second-generation
ex-members only] |
Ex-Member |
|
After the Cult:
Who Am I?
Leona Furnari,
M.S.W.
[For ex-members
only] |
Ex-Member |
|
Novel Unsupported Therapies: Pseudoscientific and Cult-Like
Characteristics
Monica Pignotti,
MSW, Moderator;
James D.
Herbert, Ph.D.;
Jean Mercer,
Ph.D. |
Group |
|
Cults and
Creativity
Dana Wehle,
L.C.S.W.; Gillie
Jenkinson, M.A. |
Mental Health |
|
The Marginals:
People on the
Boundary of a
New Religious
Movement
Eileen Barker,
Ph.D.
Mind Control in
the Cult
“Orizzonti
Nuovi”: A
Schismatic Group
of The Family –
A Survey of
Internal Sources
Dr. Cristina
Caparesi
The Problem of
“Sectarian
Mentality”
Within Church
Communities
Piotr Tomasz
Nowakowski,
Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Writing Case
Studies
Sharon Farber,
Ph.D.
Writing as a
Tool for Healing
from the Trauma
of a Cult
Experience
Kristen Skedgell
Avoiding Legal
Entanglements
When Writing
Takashi
Yamaguchi, Esq. |
Miscellaneous |
|
Polygamy and
Government:
Policies, Powers
and Limitations
of State and
Local
Governments
Livia Bardin,
M.S.W.
Jane Irvine,
ACSW, LCSW; Paul
Murphy |
Legal |
|
5:30 – 7:00 |
Dinner Break |
|
6:00 – 11:00 |
ICSA Social at
the Sheraton
University Hotel |
Fairmont Room |
|
7:30 – 9:00 |
“Since You've
Been Gone” – s
script-in-hand
staged reading
of a new play
about the cult
experience, to
be followed by
audience
discussion
D. W. Gregory |
|
|
7:00 – 11:00 |
The Phoenix
Project Exhibit |
|
|
Saturday, June 28 |
|
8:00 – 9:00 |
Registration |
|
9:00 – 10:30 |
Boundaries:
Recognition and
Repair after
Leaving a
Destructive Cult
Rosanne Henry,
M.A., L.P.C.
[For ex-members
only] |
Ex-Member |
|
Decline of the Gentle Wind Project:
How Former
Members
Withstood a
Lawsuit and
Secured a
Victory for Free
Speech
James Bergin,
M.A.; Judy
Garvey; Arthur
Dole, Ph.D.;
Cathleen Mann,
Ph.D. |
Group |
|
How to Set Up
and Facilitate a
Support Group
William Goldberg,
M.S.W.; Lorna
Goldberg, M.S.W. |
Mental Health |
|
Deprogramming:
A 24-Year
Follow-up
Gabriel Brandis;
Steve K. D.
Eichel, Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Sociological
Analysis of
Former Adherents
and Families of
Former
Adherents:
Discourse About
Leaving New
Religious
Movements in
Spain
María del Mar
Ramos-Lorente,
Ph.D.
Pedro
Castón-Boyer,
Ph.D.
Exploring and
Developing a
Model and Theory
of Totalistic
Identity in
Ex-Cult Members
Rod
Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D.; Paul
Martin, Ph.D.
The Lifton Scale
Paul Martin,
Ph.D.; Nicole
Gullekson. |
Research |
|
Divorce and
Cults
Marybeth Ayella,
Ph.D., Carol
Diament write
to them
A Survey of
Legal and
Legislative
Professionals in
Pennsylvania
Edward Lottick,
M.D. |
Family
Research |
|
Significant Cult
Legal Cases in
Japan
Masaki Kito,
Esq. ; Takashi
Yamaguchi, Esq.;
Yukari Yamamoto |
Legal |
|
10:30 –11:00 |
Break |
|
11:00 –12:30 |
Religion, the
Truth, and the
Public Good
Marci Hamilton,
M.A., J.D. |
Distinguished
Legal Lecture |
|
12:30 – 2:00 |
Lunch |
|
2:00 – 3:30 |
Growing up in
Cults: The
Special Issues
of Children in
Cults and Second
Generation Cult
Members
Moderator: Joyce
Martella
Advocating for
Children’s
Rights
Juliana Buhring
A Climate of
Fear
Donna Collins
The Masks We
Wore
Michael
Martella, MFT
Post-Cult
Identity Issues
for Second
Generation
Adults
Gina Catena,
MS., CNM, NP |
Ex-Member
Mental Health |
|
Polygamy: Recent Developments
Moderator:
Michael
Kropveld; Andrea
Moore-Emmett;
Laura Chapman;
Sylvia Mahr |
Group |
|
An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality and How it Forms
Gillie
Jenkinson, M.A.
Resiliency and Post Traumatic Growth in the Healing Journey
towards Recovery
Doni Whitsett,
Ph.D., L.C.S.W. |
Mental Health |
|
Roundtable on Theoretical Developments in the Field of Undue
Influence and
Cults
Rod
Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D.,
Facilitator;
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D.; Michael
Langone, Ph.D.;
Paul Martin,
Ph.D.; Alan
Scheflin, J.D.,
LL.M.; Benjamin
Zablocki, Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Steve Hassan
Reflects on 30
Years of
Activism
Steven Hassan,
M.Ed, LMHC, NCC |
Miscellaneous |
|
Educate,
Communicate and
Persevere:
Coping with a
Cult Experience
Walter and
Juliet Jacobs;
Joseph Szimhart |
Family |
|
Public Policy
and Cults in
Europe
Francois
Bellanger
Manipulating
Other People’s
Marriage for
Money
Randy Kandel,
Ph.D., J.D. |
Legal |
|
3:30 – 4:00 |
Break |
|
4:00 – 5:30 |
The Anti-Cult
Cult
Ginger
Zyskowski; Carol
Giambalvo |
Group |
|
Parental Alienation Syndrome and the Cult of Parenthood
Amy J. L. Baker,
Ph.D.;
Discussants:
William
Goldberg,
M.S.W.; Lorna
Goldberg, M.S.W.
(4:00 – 5:00)
Disconfirming
Inaccurate,
Self-Limiting
Beliefs Formed
Through Thought
Reform with
Corrective
Emotional
Experience
Colleen Russell,
L.M.F.T. (5:00 –
5:30) |
Mental Health |
|
The Puzzle of
Brainwashing
Pruning the
Brainwashing
Concept in Order
to Save It
Benjamin
Zablocki, Ph.D.
Now You See It,
Now You Don’t:
Why We Need to
Recognize
Brainwashing and
Its Close and
Distant Cousins
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Self-Report
Measures of
Psychological
Abuse
Carmen
Almendros,
Ph.D.,
Moderator; José
Antonio
Carrobles,
Ph.D.; Rod
Dubrow-Marshall,
Ph.D.;
Kimiaki Nishida,
Ph.D.; Álvaro
Rodríguez-Carballeira, Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Cults on Campus:
Case of the JMS
in Japanese
Universities
Yoshihide
Sakurai, Ph.D.
Secular vs. Religious: Identity Issues for Individuals Exiting
Bible-based
Cults
Wendy and Doug
Duncan
A Japanese
Rehabilitation
Center
Itaro Takesako
|
Miscellaneous |
|
Cults, the Law, and Government: A Discussion
Moderator:
Michael
Kropveld;
Francois
Belanger, Ph.D.;
Masaki Kito,
Esq.; Stephen
Mutch, Ph.D.,
LL.B., LL.B.;
Alan Scheflin,
J.D., LL.M. |
Legal |
|
5:30 – 7:30 |
Dinner Break |
|
6:00 – 11:00 |
ICSA Social at
the Sheraton
University Hotel |
Fairmont Room |
|
7:00 – 11:00 |
The Phoenix
Project Exhibit |
|
|
8:00 – 10:00 |
Film: “Vows of
Silence” (60
minutes),
followed by
panel discussion.
J. Paul Lennon;
Juan Vaca; Piotr
Nowakowski,
Ph.D. |
|
|
Sunday, June 29 |
|
8:00 – 9:00 |
Registration |
|
|
9:00 – 10:30 |
Dissociation and Self-Harm in Cultic Groups
Sharon Farber,
Ph.D.
A Razor's Edge Indeed: An Exit Counselor's Working Model of
Harmful Cult
Activity
Joseph Szimhart
Group and Individual Counseling with Cult Survivors from a
Long-Term Trauma
Theory
Perspective
Michael
Martella, M.F.T. |
Mental Health |
|
Psychotherapy
Facades and
Legal Charades:
My Adventures in
the Land of
Undue Influence
Sheila Rae
Bradley
Jehovah’s
Witnesses: Being
Freed from
Disabling Hooks
Dan Clark
Update on the
International
Churches of
Christ and the
Reemergence of
Kip McKean
David Clark |
Group |
|
Terrorism and
Cultic Studies:
A Brief
Overview
Michael Langone,
Ph.D.
The Red Mosque:
A Case Study of
How Religion can
Evolve into a
Terrorist Cult
Ana Ballesteros
Peiró; M. Jesus
Martin Lopez;
Jose Manuel
Martinez
Psychological
Violence
Strategies of
the ETA
Terrorist
Network in the
Basque Country:
An Exploratory
Study
Javier
Martín-Peña; Álvaro
Rodríguez-Carballeira; Jordi
Escartín; Clara
Porrúa; Federico
Javaloy
|
Research |
|
Identity
Construction of
Children Growing
into Closed
Religious
Environments
Lorraine
Derocher
The
Socialization of
Women into a
Polygamous
Lifestyle: The
Experience of
Canadian
Fundamentalist
Mormons
Marie-Andree
Pelland, Ph.D.;
Dianne Casoni,
Ph.D.
Charisma in
Absentia: How
the Orientation
Leaders of New
Religious
Movements
Suggest to
Recruits the
Personal
Relevance of
Their Beliefs
Joshua
Rosenblum, M.A. |
Research |
|
Aum Shinrikyo: Its Current Situation
Taro Takimoto,
Esq.; Masaki
Kito, Esq. |
Legal |
|
Child Sexual Abuse in Cults: Can it be Prevented
Kimberlee
Norris, Esq.
Cults and NRMs in Modern Literature
Dennis King |
Miscellaneous |
|
10:30 – 11:00 |
Break |
|
11:00 – 12:30 |
Ex-Member
Debriefing
Carol Giambalvo
[For ex-members
only] |
Ex-Member |
|
Informal Case
Presentations
and Group
Supervision -
for
Psychotherapists
Working with
Former Cult
Members
Facilitator:
Daniel Shaw,
LCSW
[For mental
health
professionals
only] |
Mental Health |
|
Thirty Years of Treatment for Individuals and Families Affected
by
Psychologically
Manipulative
Groups (GMP): An
Epidemiological
Perspective
Núria Ribas,
Josep Maria
Jansà, Luca
Basile, Inma
Sánchez, Vega
González, Miguel
Perlado, Esther
Maté, Marga
Cano, Teresa
Fernández
Description of
Pre-Conditions
of Cultic
Personality
Dependence:
Results of
Ukrainian
Research into
Nontraditional
Religious
Activity
Olena
Lischynska,
Ph.D.
A Causal Model
of Some
Perceived
Socio-Psychological
and Academic
Factors as
Determinants of
Cult Membership
Among University
Students in
Southwestern
Nigeria
Adesoji A. Oni,
Ph.D.; Sikiru
Adekola
Babarinde, Ph.D. |
Research |
|
Four Approaches
to Helping
Families
Moderator: Lois
Svoboda, M.D.,
LMFT; David
Clark; Joseph
Szimhart ;
Joseph
Kelly/Patrick
Ryan; Steve
Hassan,
M.Ed, LMHC, NCC |
Family |
|
Update on Cult
Legal Cases and
Issues in Japan
Masaki Kito,
Esq. ; Shuji
Nakamura, Esq.;
Takashi
Yamaguchi, Esq.;
Reiko Higashi,
Esq. |
Legal |
|
12:30 – 1:00 |
About Next
Year’s
Conference
Michael Langone,
Ph.D.; Michael
Kropveld
Closing Comments
Philip Elberg,
Ph.D. |
Plenary |
