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Bardin, David J., Esq.: "Psychological Coercion & Human Rights: Mind Control ('Brainwashing') Exists"
Baron, Robert: "Arousal, Capacity, and Intense Indoctrination" - abstract
Can Hypnosis Explain Cult Conversion?
Cialdini, Robert B., Ph.D.: "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion"
Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Galanti, Geri-Ann, Ph.D.: "Brainwashing and the Moonies" - abstract
Galanti, Geri-Ann, Ph.D.: "Cult Converesion, Deprogramming, and the Triune Brain" - abstract
Griffo, Maureen: "How Could Anyone Join a Cult"
Kent, Stephen & Hall, Deana: "Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Lalich, Janja, Ph.D.: "Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven's Gate" - abstract
Langone, Micahel, Ph.D.: "Deception, Dependency & Dread The Conversion Process"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Clinical Update on Cults"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults, Conversion, Science, & Harm
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Innter Experience and Conversion" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "We weren't Crazy; We were Fooled"
Lifton, Robert J., M.D.: "Lifton's Eight Criteria for Thought Reform"
Lifton, Robert, J. M.D.: "Cult Formation"
Lifton, Robert, J.: "Thought Reform & the Psychology of Totalism"
Litfin, Duane: "The Perils of Persuasive Preaching"
MacDonald, Jerry: "'Reject the Wicked Man': Coercive Persuasion and Deviance Production - abstract
Miller, Jesse, Ph.D.: "The Utilization of Hypnotic Techniques in Religious Cult Conversion" - abstract
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D. & Singer, Margaret T., Ph.D.: Attacks on Peripheral vs. Central Elements of Self" - abstract
Psychology of Religion - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Singer, Margaret, Ph.D.: "How United States Marine Corps Differ from Cults"
Singet Margaret, Ph.D.: "Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence"
Zimbardo, Philip G., Ph.D. & Hartley, Cynthia F.: "Cults Go to High School" - abstract
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "Mind Control: Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric?"
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "What messages are behind today's cults?"

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Adoptee Allegedly "Brainwashed"

Analysis: Miracle, Mystery and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination

APA Hears Margaret Singer on Cultism

Book Review: Bibliography on “Cults” and “Brainwashing”

Book Review: Conversion: Book on Conversion and Social Protest

Book Review: From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era

Book Review: The Lure of the Cults and New Religions

Brainwashed 'guinea pig' seeks more damages

Brainwashing Defense...

Brainwashing Exists

Brainwashing/Lee Boyd Malvo: “Brainwashing” Defense Mounted

Brainwashing: Brainwashing Defense Returns

Brainwashing: Muslim Leader Calls for Curbs on “Rogue” Preachers

Brainwashing: Slavery Trial

Campaign Against "Brainwashing"

CIA Brainwashing Program

CIA Taught "Mental Coercion"

College Guide Warning on Cults

Cracking the Riddle of the Cults - Conway and Siegelman Address Cult Awareness Conference

Cult Awareness Network Judgment Affirmed in Deprogramming Case

Cult Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents & Professionals

Cults, Conversion, Science, & Harm

Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society: International Perspectives - An Overview

Elizabeth Smart/Emmanuel: Theory of “Conversion”

Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification

GLOBAL SCAN: Scotland - Says Cult Recruiters No Worse Than Car Salesman

In the Courts: Brainwashing without Physical Bonds, Scientology, 7th Day Adventist Death

Information Disease

Inner Experience and Conversion

Is Brainwashing an Unproved Hypothesis?

Legislative: Informed Consent Rule for Conversions Suggested

Love Supreme: On Spiritual Experience and Change in Personality Structure

Mind Control: Call for APA Task Force

Miracle, Mystery, and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination

New Film: "Join Us" to be shown at Los Angeles Film Festival, June 21 - July 1, 2008

Psychological Association Task Force on Abuse of Persuasion Techniques

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Group Psychological Abuse Scale

Robert Lifton on Cults

Smart, Elizabeth Brainwashing: Understanding What Happened to Elizabeth Smart

Sniper Attacks: Switch from Indoctrination to Insanity Defense

Study Shows Mind Control Techniques May Cause "Information Disease"

Terrorism: Chechen Suicide Bombers May Be Brainwashed

The Cult Experience: Myth and Reality

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

The Psychology of Torture

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

Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence

Three Modes of Counseling – Part II: The Family

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