Conference: Understanding Cults and New Religious Movements -- Perspectives
of Researchers, Professionals, Former Members, and Families
Carmen Almendros,
Doctoral Student, Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud,
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Sandy Andron, Ed.D., Education Consultant, North Miami Beach, Florida
Lourdes Arguelles,
Ph.D., Professor of Women Studies and Education, Claremont Graduate
University, California
Flore Singer Aslid
is a social anthropologist in Trondheim,
Norway
Livia Bardin, M.S.W., Psychotherapist, Clinical Social Worker, Washington, D.C.
Eileen Barker, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion,
London School of Economics; Founder and Chairman of the Board of Governors,
INFORM, London, England
Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., Department of General Studies, Northwest State College, Archbold, Ohio
Miriam Williams Boeri, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, Georgia
William H. Bowen,
President, Silentlambs, Inc.
Harry Brodie, M.D.,
former member of Kashi, Littleton, Colorado
Ronald Burks, M.A.,
Ph.D. Candidate, Wellspring Retreat
and Resource Center, Albany, Ohio
Paul Carden,
Executive Director, Centers for Apologetics Research, San Juan Capistrano,
California
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Antonio Carrobles. Catedrático y Director del Departamento de Psicología
Biológica y de la Salud. President of the European
Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies (EABCT).
David Clark,
Thought Reform Consultant; AFF Video
Education Committee Chair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Donna Collins,
writer, Phoenix, Arizona
Arthur Dole, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Emeritus Professor, Psychology in Education,
University of Pennsylvania
Steve
K. Dubrow
Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP,
Linda
Jayne Dubrow, Ph.D., Psychologist and Co-director of RETIRN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dan Dugan,
Secretary, PLANS, Inc. (People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools), San
Francisco, California
Roberta Cobrin
Eisenberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., BCD,
RETIRN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Andrea Moore Emmett, Writer and Journalist/Researcher, Salt Lake City, Utah
Jorge Erdely, Ph.D., Director, Centro de Investigaciones, Instituto Cristiano de Mexico,
Mexico City
James Foster,
Co-founder of the Roberts Group Parents Network
Edward Frischholz,
Ph.D., Psychologist, Rush North
Shore Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Carol Giambalvo,
Director of Recovery Programs, AFF; Thought Reform Consultant, Flagler
Beach, Florida
Lorna Goldberg,
M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Director, Child &
Adolescent Program, New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis
William Goldberg,
M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Director,
Community Support Center, Rockland County (NY) Department of Mental Health
Steven Hassan, M.Ed.,
L.M.H.C., Cult Counselor; Director,
Freedom of Mind Resource Center, Inc., Somerville, Massachusetts
Rosanne Henry, L.P.C., Psychotherapist, Littleton, Colorado
Josep Jansa, M.D., Medical Coordinator, Assessment and Information on Cults, Barcelona,
Spain
Joseph Kelly,
Thought Reform Consultant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kathy Kelly, M.A.,
ATC/L, Exercise physiologist, Pinehurst, North Carolina
Mike Kropveld,
Executive Director, Info-Cult,
Montreal, Canada
Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Chico
Michael Langone,
Ph.D., Executive Director, AFF
Sharon Lombard, B.F.A.,
Miami, Florida
Ronald Loomis,
Cult Educational Consultant, New London, Connecticut
Phillip Lucas, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Religious
Studies, Stetson University, Deland, Florida
Hal Mansfield,
Director, Religious Movement Resource Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
Marcos Marin,
Ph.D. Candidate, Universidad La Habana, Cuba
Rod Marshall, Ph.D., Acting Dean of Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Humanities,
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Wycombe, England
Paul Martin, Ph.D., Director, Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center, Albany, Ohio
Cesar Mascarenas, M.D.,
Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Post-Graduate Medicine, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Jean-Francois Mayer,
Ph.D., Lecturer in Religious
Studies, University of Fribourg,
Switzerland
Marie-Andree Pelland, Ph.D. Student, Department of Criminology, University of Montreal
Miguel Perlado Recacha,
Psychologist, Assessment and Information on Cults, Barcelona, Spain
Anne Rivero, M.S.W.,
Clinical Social Worker, Kaiser Permanente, Ontario, California
Herbert L. Rosedale,
Esq., President, AFF; Senior
Counselor, Gilchrist & Jenkins Parker Chapin, New York City
Patrick Ryan,
Thought Reform Consultant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alan Scheflin, J.D.,
L.L.M., Professor of Law, Santa
Clara University Law School, Santa Clara, California
Margaret Thaler
Singer, Ph.D., Emeritus Adjunct
Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Szimhart,
Thought Reform Consultant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dennis Tourish, Ph.D., Department of Management, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Jonibeth Whitney,
Ph.D., Psychotherapist, Los
Angeles, California
Larry Wilcox,
Co-Founder of The Roberts Group Parents Network
Hiroshi Yamaguchi,
Esq., Tokyo Kyodo Law Office, Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Zablocki,
Ph.D.,
Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
