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A spiritual journey: Connecticut Christian embraces Bahai
Adoptee Allegedly "Brainwashed"
Analysis: Miracle, Mystery and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination
APA Hears Margaret Singer on Cultism
Battle over legal costs could derail B.C. polygamy case
Benny Hinn: 'I Would Not Do This for Money'
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: Lure of the Cults and New Religions
Boy chosen by Dalai Lama turns back on Buddhist order
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"
Children of Moon church's mass-wedding age face a crossroads
CIA Brainwashing Program
CIA Taught "Mental Coercion"
Conversion and Worldviews
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 on Campus: Recruitment at Long Beach State
Cults Practice Thought Reform
Cults, Conversion, Science, & Harm
Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society: International Perspectives - An Overview
Curtain rises on W. Texas polygamist sex trial today
D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christ
Dr. Evil
Elizabeth Smart/Emmanuel: Theory of “Conversion”
Ex-TV evangelist Schuller buys cable network AmericanLife
Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification
Former KKK, now Christ's crusader
Hindu Americans facing growth, challenge
In the Courts: Brainwashing without Physical Bonds, Scientology, 7th Day Adventist Death
Information Disease
Inner Experience and Conversion
Is Brainwashing an Unproved Hypothesis?
Is congressional boardinghouse a cult?
Just a sect, Exclusive Brethren is not above the law
Lawsuit calls yoga chain a cult
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
Mormon myths: From hero fantasies to cautionary tales
Mormon sect protests Mexico abduction
New Film: "Join Us" to be shown at Los Angeles Film Festival, June 21 - July 1, 2008
Predators on campus: An inside look at cults in New Jersey
Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Group Psychological Abuse Scale
Robert Lifton on Cults
Sai Baba visit puts Chavan on the mat
Sex Slave Brainwashed
Singapore’s Lee warns on religion
Smart, Elizabeth Brainwashing: Understanding What Happened to Elizabeth Smart
Sniper Attacks: Switch from Indoctrination to Insanity Defense
Students face religious dilemmas
Study Shows Mind Control Techniques May Cause "Information Disease"
Terrorism: Chechen Suicide Bombers May Be Brainwashed
The Big Question: What is the Unification Church, and do its practices have a future?
The Cult Experience: Myth and Reality
The knock at the door that turned my parents into brainwashed fanatics - and nearly cost my life
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
The Terrorist Mind: An Update
Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence
Three Modes of Counseling – Part II: The Family
Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church
Where sect takes precedence over everything else
White Sikhs – foreigners who found faith in Sikhism
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