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Over the years ICSA has published a number of articles addressing academic disputes and dialogue regarding cults and brainwashing (frequently called “thought reform,” “coercive persuasion,” or “mind control”).  In order to illuminate the history of these disputes and the issues they have addressed, we have put together an online collection, “Academic Disputes and Dialogue.” 

Read the Preface to this collection.


Amitrani, Alberto & Di Marzio, Raffaella: "Blind or Just Don't Want to See: Brainwashing, Mystification, and Suspicion"
Amitrani, Alberto & Di Marzio, Raffaella: "Min Control in New Religious Movements and the American Psychological Association"
Bardin, David J., Esq.: "Psychological Coercion & Human Rights: Mind Control ('Brainwashing') Exists"
Integrity and Suspicion in New Religious Movements
Kropveld, Michael: "An Example for Controversy: Creating a Model for Reconciliation"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: " Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "The Two Camps of Cultic Studies"
Langone, Michael D.: "Academic Disputes and Dialogue Collection: Preface"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cult Awareness Groups and NRM Scholars: Toward Depolarization of Key Issues" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "New Religions and Public Policy"
Martin, Paul: "Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization: A Rational/Empirical Defense of Thought Reform"
Misunderstanding Cults - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Rosedale, Herbert, Esq.: "Cult Litigation Doesn't Threaten Religion"
Strange Gods - Book Review by Jeanne Schuller, Ph.D.
Zablocki, Benjamin, Ph.D.: "Methodological Fallacies in Atnhony's Critiqueof  Exit Cost Analysis"
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "Mind Control: Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric?"

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