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Dr. Sharon Farber

 

Sharon K. Farber, Ph.D., is in private practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, a NYC suburb. She has taught at the Cape Cod Institute, schools of social work, medical schools, and training institutes. She has been elected to the National Academies of Practice as a Distinguished Practitioner. She is the author of When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments, in which she wrote of self-harm in members of cults. She is the author of several journal articles and a book in progress, and has received a writing award.  Her interest in cults began thirty five years ago. when she realized that her brother's mind had been taken over by Transcendental Meditation. She has treated a number of people for cult-related problems.

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