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Adams, Donna L.: "Brief Report: Perceived Psychological Abuse and the Cincinnati Church of Christ"
AIS: "Grupos de Manipulacion Psicologica en Cataluna"
Almendros, Carmen et al.: "Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Group Psychological Abuse Scale" - abstract
Almendros, Carmen et al.:" Former Members' Perceptions of Cult Involvement"
Almendros, Carmen: "Book of Abstracts - Madrid 2005 Conferenced"
Ando, Kiyoshi et al.: "College Students and Religious Groups in Japan: How are they influenced and How do they Perceive the Group Members?" - abstract
Association of Religion Data Archives
Baker, Amy, Ph.D.: "The Cult of Parenthood: A Qualitative Study of Parental Alientation" - abstract
Barker, Eileen, Ph.D.: "Harm and New Religious Movements" - abstract
Baron, Robert: "Arousal, Capacity, and Intense Indoctrination" - abstract
Chambers, William, Ph.D. et al.: "The Group Psychological Abuse Scale"
Chambers, William, Ph.D. et al.: "The Group Psychological Abuse Scale" - abs
Cheng, Cliff, Ph.D.: "The 'Helpmate" of Males: An Ethnography on Sex Segregation and Theocracy" - abstract
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D. & Dubrow Eichel, Steve K.: "Some New Religions are Dangerous" - abstract
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "harm and NRMs: Perspectives from Psychology" - abstract
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "Is The New Age Movement Harmless? Critics Versus Experts" - abs
Dole, Arthur, Ph.D. et al.: "Is the New Age Movement Harmless? Critics versus Experts" - abstract
Dole, Arthur, Ph.D. et al.: "The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace?" - abstract
Dole, Arthur, Ph.D.: "Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members" - abstract
Eichel, Steve K. D., Ph.D.: "Deprogramming: A Case Study Part II: Conversation Analysis" - abstract
Eichel, Steve, K. D., Ph.D.: "Deprogramming: A Case Study" - abstract
Elleven, Russell et al.: "Cults on Campus: Pereceptions of Chief Counseling Officers" - abstract
Elleven, Russell et al.: "Residence Halls and Cults" - abstract
Gasde, Irene, M.S.: "Cult Experience: Psychological Abuse, Distress, Personality Characteristics, and Changes in Personal Relationships Reported by Former Members of Church Universal and Triumphant
Haines, Janet et al.: "The Death of a Leader: Homicide as a Means of Group Disengagement" - abstract
Internet Journal of Religion: DISKUS
Kelley, Susan, Ph.D.: "Ritualistic Abuse of Children: Dynamics and Impact" - abstract
Kent, Stephen & Hall, Deana: "Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Kent, Stephen & Szimhart, Joseph: "Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and their Implications for Children" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation members of the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Leader, David Berg" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups" - abstract
Lalich, Janja, Ph.D.: "Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven's Gate" - abstract
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Deprogramming: An Analysis of Parental Questionnaires" - abstract
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues"
Langone, Michael D.: "Academic Disputes and Dialogue Collection: Preface"
Langone, Michael, D. Ph.D.& Chambers, William: "Outreach to Ex-Cult Members: The Question of Terminology" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group That Targets College Students
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Boston Church of Christ Movement Study"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "New Religions and Public Policy"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Prevalence"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Questionnaire Study: Preliminary Report"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Research on Destructive Cults
Lottick, Edward, M.D.: "A Remarkable Consensus"
Lottick, Edward, M.D.: "Psychologist Survey Regarding Cults"
Lottick, Edward, M.D.: "Survey Reveals Physicians' Experience with Cults"
Lucas, Phillip, Ph.D.: "Spiritual Harm in New Religions: Reflections on Interviews with Former Members" - Abstract
MacDonald, Jerry: "'Reject the Wicked Man': Coercive Persuasion and Deviance Production - abstract
Malinoski, Peter et al.: "Psychological Distress in Former Members of the ICC and Noncultic Groups" - abstract
Malinoski, Peter, M.A., Ph.D.: "Seeking Accurate Information: Part I, A Sketch of Currently Available Popular and Professional Books on Cultic and Related Groups"
Malinoski, Peter, M.A., Ph.D.: "Thoughts on Conducting Research with Former Cult Members"
Marburg Journal of Religion
Maron, Neil, Ph.D.: "Family Environment as a Factor in Vulnerability to Cult Involvement" - abstract
McKibben, Jodi et al.: "Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful?" - abstract
Meikle, Jessie: "Imposed Anorexia: A Model of Dietary Restriction in Four Ideological Groups" - abstract
Nurelweb - Cults and Religion website an academic approach to the study of relgion
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D. & Singer, Margaret T., Ph.D.: Attacks on Peripheral vs. Central Elements of Self" - abstract
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D.: "Coerced Confessions: The Logic of Seemingly Irrational Action" - abstract
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D.: "The Rabbi and the Sex Cult" - abstract
Osmond, Amy: "Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification"
Psychology of Religion - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Religioscope
Rochford, Burke: "Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986" - (full text 237k)
Rochford, Burke: "Further Reflections on Child Abuse within ISKCON" - Hare Krishna
Rochford, Burke: "Hare Krishna: Family Formation, Culture and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement"
Rosedale, Herbert and Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "On Using the Term "Cult"
Sakurai, Yoshihide, Ph.D.: "Illegal Missionary Work Lawsuits and Exit Counseling for Unification Church Members" - abstract
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology - book review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Sirkin, Mark, Ph.D. & Grellong, Bruce, Ph.D.: "Cult vs. Non-Cult Jewish Families: Factors Influencing Conversion" - abstract
Spiritual Counterfeits Project
Sullivan, Lawrence B., Ph.D.: "Family Perspectives on Involvements in New Religious Groups" - abstract
Sullivan, Lawrence, Ph.D.: "Counseling and Involvements in New Religious Groups" - abstract
Swartling, Gundrun & Swartling, Per: "Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Members of Word of Life" - abstract
Tourish, Dennis & Irving, Pauline: "Group Influence and the Psychology of Cultism Within Re-evaluation Counselling: A Critique" - abstract
Tourish, Dennis & Pinnington, Ashly: "Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism, and the Spirituality Paradigm" - abstract
Tourish, Dennis & Wohlforth, Tim: "Prophets of the Apocalypse: White Supremacy and the Theology of Christian Identity" - abstract
Tourish, Dennis, Ph.D.: "Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism, and Cultism: A Case Study from the Political Left" - abstract
Varieties of Anomalous Experiences - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Wexler, Mark, Ph.D.: "Expanding the Groupthink Explanation to the Study of Contemmporary Cults" - abstract
Whitsett, Doni & Kent, Stephen: "Cults and Families" - abstract
Winocur, Nadine et al.: "The Individual Cult Experience Index" - abstract
Young, Thomas, Ph.D.: "Cult Violence and the Identity Movement" - abstract
Zablocki, Benjamin, Ph.D.: "Methodological Fallacies in Atnhony's Critiqueof Exit Cost Analysis"
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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Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful?

Childhood Familial Experiences as Antecedents of Adult Membership in New Religious Movements

Churches Seeking Dialoge with "New Religions"

Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members

Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics of New Religious Movements Members: New Questions and Data on the Mental Health Issue

Concern Over Cults 'Unwarranted,' Says Sociologist

Cult Awareness Council President Responds to Sociologist's Claims

Cultic Studies Journal Highlights Former Group Members

Cultic Studies Scholarship Award to Peter Malinoski

Cults in the Mid-80s: A Survey

Cults of Hatred

Do Cult Researchers Neglect Certain Evidence?

Family Formation, Culture and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement

Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification

Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement

Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement

GLOBAL SCAN: Russia - Russian Anti-Cult Magazine

GLOBAL: Canada - Info-Cult 20th Anniversary

Harm and New Religious Movements (NRMs): Some Notes on a Sociological Perspective

International: Germany-Survey Finds 500,000 Cult Members in Germany

Measuring Faith Development

Mind Control: Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric?

Nova Religio: Childhood Familial Experiences as Antecedents of Adult Membership in New Religious Movements

Police Chief Answers

Post-Cult Symptoms As Measured by the MCMI Before and After Residential Treatment

Professional Profile: Edwin and Julia Morse

Professional Profile: Jonibeth Whitney

Professional Profile: Louis Jolyon West

Professional Profile: Madeleine Tobias

Professional Profile: Margaret Thaler Singer

Professional Profile: Pastor Friedrich-W. Haack

Professional Profile: Patricia Goski

Professional Profile: William Goldberg

Profile: Margaret Thaler Singer

Profile: Pastor Friedrich-W. Haack

Psychological Distress in Former Members of the ICC and Noncultic Groups

Psychologist Survey Regarding Cults

Reassessing Conventional Approaches to Conversion: Toward a New Synthesis

Relationship Illness: Psychiatrists Debate Relationship Illness

Religiousness, Spiritual Seeking, and Authoritarianism: Findings from a Longitudinal Study

Research on New Religions Questioned

Scheflin Shares APA Award for Work on Memory

Survey Suggests Cults Touch Millions

The "Helpmate" of Males: An Ethnography on Sex Segregation and Theocracy

The Glazer-Ta'asa Report: Cults a Danger to Israel

The Prophet's Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster's "The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma"

The Prophet's Fall: A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster's "The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma"

The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma: New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership

The Seven-Stage Hate Model: The Psychopathology of Hate Groups

Thoughts on Conducting Research with Former Cult Members

Why Are Most Sociologists Cult Apologists?

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