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1979–2019: The Changing Population of ICSA
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An Exit Counselors Perspective
An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form?
An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group
An Open Letter to Clergy
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Predicaments The Truth, Deceit, and Issues Surrounding Falun Gong
Antisocial Personality Disorder in Cult Leaders
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Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful
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Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive
Arousal Capacity and Intense Indoctrination
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Arts A 30-Year Odyssey
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Aum Shinrikyo and Its Weapons of Mass Destruction
Austrian Perspectives on Cults
Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON
Authority Its Use and Abuse
Autobiography of a Former Moonie
Avoiding Extremes in Defining Extremist Cult
Back From the Brink
Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
Bible Cult Mind Control 101
Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion
Blind or Just Don't Want to See
Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
Born Into a Doomsday Cult
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Boston Church of Christ Movement
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Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God
Brainwashing and the Moonies
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Building Resistance - Tactics for Counteracting Manipulation and Unethical Hypnosis
Business and the New Age Movement
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them - Case of the Legion
Campus Crusade--Youth Ministers Find
Can Hypnosis Explain Cult Conversion
Can Scholars Be Deceived
Challenging Authority
Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement
Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups
Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups
Charismatic Covenant Community
Charismatic Leadership
Charismatic Leadership and Corporate Cultism at Enron
Checks on Power and Authority
Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement
Child Custody and Cults
Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect
Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community
Children and Cults
Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
Choosing A Church
Christian Evangelism and Social Responsibility
Cleansing Ritual
Clinical and Diagnostic Issues of Cultism Group Dependence Disorder
Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members
Clinical Update on Cults
Closed Cults Open Conferences
Clubs, Neotribal Enclaves and Cults: Variations on the Theme of Organizing Members
Coerced Confessions
Cold Reading
College Students and Religious Groups in Japan
Column: Getting Help
Coming Back Home
Coming out of the Cults
Comment on Leeds
Comment on Opus Dei
Comment on Review of The Devil is a Gentleman
Comment on Shipwrecked in the Spirit
Comment on Shipwrecked in the Spirit - Duggan
Comment on “The Rhetoric of Religious ‘Cults’ Terms of Use and Abuse”
Comment--Reducing Conflict and Enhancing Quality of Life in Israel
Commentary on Borawick V Shay - Karlin
Commentary on Borawick v Shay - Scheflin
Commentary on Nori Muster’s Article
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Comments-Stenders Some Rigors of Our Times
Common Myths and Misconceptions About Cults and Cultic Groups
Conflict Between Aum Critics and Human-Rights Advocates in Japan
Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
Compassion Betrayed Spiritual Abuse in an American Zen Center
Comprehensive Bibliography ISKCON
Confessions of a Cult Watcher
Contemporary Uses of the Brainwashing Concept
Contemporary Uses of the Brainwashing Concept 2000 to Mid-2007
Contributions of the Inter-Varsity Team
Contributions of the Inter-Varsity Team - Introduction
Conversion-Religious Change Challenge of NRM
Coping with Cult Involvement A Handbook for Families and Friends
Coping with Triggers
Correspondents' Reports
Counseling and Involvements in NRMs
Counseling Cultists and Their Families
Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach
Court Decisions Exit Counseling
Crazy Wisdom
Creating the Illusion of Mind Reading
Creativity and Cults
Creativity and Cults from Sociological and Communication Perspectives
Cult A Love Story
Cult Awareness Groups and NRM Scholars
Cult Conversion Deprogramming and the Triune Brain
Cult Experience Psychological Abuse Distress Personality Characteristics
Cult Formation
Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents
Cult Is As Cult Does
Cult Pseudo-Creativity vs. Creativity in Recovery
Cult Violence and the Identity Movement
Cult vs Non-Cult Jewish Families
Cult-Induced Psychopathology
Cultic Dimensions London Bombings
Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom
Cultic Studies Bibliography
Cultic Studies Bibliography 2003
Cultish Religious Sects and Politics The Brethren v. Greens Contest and Other Controversies Involving Minor Religious Sects Down Under
Cultism and American Culture
Cultism, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Cultism: A Conference for Scholars-Policy Makers
Cults A Natural Disaster
Cults and Children
Cults and Children The Abuse of the Young
Cults and Families
Cults and Globalization
Cults and Religious Privileges in England and Australia Can the Wheat be Separated from the Chaff
Cults and Sex Trafficking
Cults and Terrorism
Cults and the European Parliament
Cults Evangelicals and the Ethics of Social Influence
Cults Freedom of Belief Freedom of Religion
Cults Go To High School
Cults in America
Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis
Cults in Court
Cults in Japan
Cults in Latin America
Cults of Hatred
Cults on Campus Perceptions of Chief Counseling Officers
Cults Psychological Abuse and Thought Reform
Cults What Clergy Should Know
Cults, Coercion, and Contumely
Cults, Conversion, Science, and Harm
Cults, Conversion, Science, and Harm
Cults, Creativity, and Folie Psychoanalytic Considerations
Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society
Cults, Religion, and China
Cults, State Control, and Falun Gong
Culture Shock - The Challenge of Building or Rebuilding a Life
Curiosity and Willingness to Learn
Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women & Children
Custody and Forensic Issues - Readings
Dallas Former Member Support Group
Death of a Moonie Reflections of a Blessed Child
Deception in Transcendental Meditation
Deception, Dependency, and Dread
Denouement of the Prophets’ Cult The Church Universal and Triumphant in Decline
Deprogramming A Case Study
Deprogramming Ethics
Deprogramming Survey
Deprogramming: A Case Study 2
Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
Development of the Study of Mind Control in Japan
Devotees and Their Parents
Dialogue and Cultic Studies
Diana Play Therapy
Diana, Leaving the Cult
Disciple Abuse
Divergent European Cult Policies
Domestic Violence as a Cultic System
Dominance and Submission
Doomsday Religious Movements - Canadian Security Intelligence Report
Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
Dynamics Spirit Abuse
Dysfunctional Churches
Editors Introduction - Borawick vs. Shay Discussion
Editor’s Comment on “Opus Dei Over Time”
Editor’s Corner
Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and their Implications for Children
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
Enemies Within - Conflict and Control in the Baha i Community
Ethical Evangelism
Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants
Ethics in Proselytizing - A Jewish Perspective
Ethics of Evangelism
European Muslims
Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
Evangelicals and Cults
Evangelism - Persuasion or Proselytizing
Evangelism and Freedom in the Catholic Church
Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming
Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
Expanding the Groupthink Explanation
Extrapolation, Exaggeration, or Exculpation
Fair Game
False Memory and Buridans Ass
Falun Gong and the World
Families Helping Families
Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
Family Environment as a Factor in Vulnerability
Family Formation Culture Change in ISKCON
Family Life In and Out of a Cult
Family Perspectives on Involvements
Family Responses to a Young Adults
Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification
Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
Film Review - Generation War Our Fathers, Our Mothers
Film Review The Matrix Cult
Finding and Losing My Religion
For Families Who Suspect That a Loved One May Be Involved With a High-Demand Group (Cult)
Former Members and Health-Care Reform
Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement
Forty Years in the Wilderness
Frankl Revisited
Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
Free Speech Survey Report
Freedom of the Mind
Freemen Soverign Citizens
French Publications On Cultic Phenomena
From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
From Counterfeit to Truth
From Deprogramming to Deradicalization
From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation
From Survivor to Thriver
From the Fire to a Blessing Field
Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON
Further Reflections on Child Abuse Within ISKCON
Gender Attributes That Affect Women's Attraction
Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of GodThe Family
Getting Involved in a Cult
Gods Company--New Age Ethics
Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
Governments and Cults
Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
Group Influence and Psych of Cultism within
Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
Guidelines for Opus Dei: Statement by Cardinal Hume
Harm and New Religious Movements (NRMs) Some Notes on a Sociological Perspective
Harm and NRMs Perspectives From Psychology
Harm and NRMs Perspectives from Religious Studies, Sociology, and Psychology - Introduction
Have Cults Declined
Healing From Experiences
Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
History and Purpose of Model Presentations
History of American Family Foundation
History of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem
How Can Faith Communities Help Survivors of Spiritual Abuse?
How Can Young People Protect Themselves
How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults
How Children in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws
How Could Anyone Join a Cult
How Should Communities Movemnt Handle Qns of Abuse
How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
How to Find Information on a Group
How to Talk to People Who are Trying to Save You
How We Rescued Our Daughter
How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
Hypnosis and the Iatrogenic Creation of Memory
I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
ICSA Cults and Government
ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
Ideology, Demonization, and Scholarship The Need for Objectivity—A Response to Robbins' Comments on Rosedale, the Chinese Government, and Falun Gong
Illegal Missionary Work Lawsuits and Exit Counseling for Unification Church Members
Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
Imposed Anorexia A Model of Dietary Restriction in Four Ideological Groups
In favor of Per Se Exclusion of Hypnotically Influenced Testimony
In Good Faith
In the shadow of the new age Decoding the Findhorn Foundation.
Influence
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
Inner Experience
Innocent Murderers Abducted Children in the Lord’s Resistance Army
Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
Interacting with Cults: Police
Interesting Times
International Churches of Christ Introduction
International Cultic Studies Association, Cults, and Government
Introduction - We Own Her Now
Introduction to Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence
Introduction to Discussion with Johannes Aagaard
Introduction to Group Report on ISKCON
Introduction to Inaugural Issue
Introduction to the ICSA 2007 Annual Conference
Introduction to the Monograph
Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
Introductory Note to Family Studies
Is Falun Gong a “Cult”
Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
Is the New Age Movement Harmless
ISKCON in the News - Cult Observer 1984-1999
ISKCON Response to Child Abuse
Japan Society
Japanese Activities to Counter Cults
Jehovahs Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech
Jones on Jesus
Judgment by the Fukuoka
Just Joking
Krishna Venta
Large Group Awareness Trainings
Le Phénomène des Sectes. L'Étude du Fonctionnement des Groupes
Leaving a Cult for Music
Legal Analysis of Intent
Legal Considerations
Legal Decision-Borawick V Shay
Les rapports d’inspection des écoles privées
Lessons From Adjacent Fields Cults and Radical Extremist Groups
Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency
Lets Get Lost
Letter to a Former Member
Letters - A Comment on "Cult Conversion
Letters - Confessions of a "Cult" Watcher: An Alternative Point of View
Letters - Euphemizing Dramatic Intervention
Letters A Comment on "Cult Conversion, Deprogramming and the Triune Brain"
Life After Centrepoint
Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults
Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case
Lost Love
Lustful Prophet
Lying in Court and Religion
Manipulative Therapists
Marriage After the Cult
Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
Meditation, Delusion and Deception
Mental Health Interventions
Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
Meredith Poems
Methodological Fallacies in Anthony’s Critique of Exit Cost Analysis
Mind Control - Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric
Mind Control and the Battering of Women
Mind Control in New Religious Movements
Moments of Grace
Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
More Than the Devils Due
Mothers in cults
Movie Review - Martha Marcy May Marlene
My Experience in YWAM
My Perspective of Rosanne Henry and Leona Furnari's Presentation to the Annual SGA Workshop
My Unexpected Journey
My Voice
Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership
Narcissistic Fraud in the Ancient World Lucian’s Account of Alexander of Abonuteichos and the Cult of Glycon
Never Say Die
New Books on Polygamy
New Organizations Operating Under
New Religions and Public Policy
Nishida Kimiaki Figure
Nishida Kimiaki Table 1
Nishida Kimiaki Table 2
No Place to Go - Life in a Prison Without Bars
Nothing Need Go to Waste
Objectionable Aspects of Cults
Of Cults and Evangelicals
Of Urinals and Dark Forces
On Avatar
On Breaking the Code of Silence
On Conversations with God
On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
On Ken Wilber
On Resisting Social Influence
On the Outside Looking In Growing Up in the Moonies
On Using the Term "Cult"
Opus Dei Over Time
Origins and Prevention of Abuse
Outreach to Ex-Cult Members: The Question of Terminology
Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization
Overview: Support Groups
Panel: Can Cultic Groups Change
Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
Parental Responses
Pathological Psychoanalysis
Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
Peace at Last
Perceived Psychological Abuse
Perfect Master or Perfect Psychopath
Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film
Personality - Belief in the Paranormal
Perspectives on Cults As Affected by the September 11th Tragedy
Persuasive Techniques - Contemp Cults
Physical Child Abuse in Sects
Pitfalls to Recovery
Pluralism, Deeds, Creeds, and Cults
Poetry - Kocsis
Poetry: Donna Y. Orme-Collins
Poetry: Heather
Poetry: Jessica
Poetry: Lois Eaton
Poetry: MLP
Poetry: Moseley
Poetry: Nieland
Poetry: Welch
Poety - DeGraff
Point of View - it 1.1
Point of View - it 1.2
Point of View - it 3.2
Point of View - it 3.3
Point of View - it 4.1
Point of View - it 4.2
Point of View - it 4.3
Point of View - it 5.1
Point of View - IT 5.2
Points for Pastors
Post-Cult After Effects
Post-Cult Financial Recovery
Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
Post-Cult Problems: An Exit Counselor's Perspective
Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI
Prayer - Free Mandates Removed from Federal Health Care Bills
Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
Prevalence
Preventative Ed for High School Students
Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
Prevention Program on Psychologically Manipulative Techniques
Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
Problem Solving An Approach
Profile - Caparesi
Profile - dimarzio
Profile - Eichel
Profile - Giambalvo
Profile - Goldberg
Profile - Goldberg - Bill
Profile - Griess
Profile - Henry
Profile - Jarva
Profile - Kent
Profile - Kropveld
Profile - Miquelon
Profile - Monroney
Profile - Pardon Judy
Profile - Pardon Robert
Profile - Pelland
Profile - Pletts
Profile - Pressley
Profile - Rardin
Profile - Rodriguez
Profile - Ryan
Profile - Saldana
Profile - Stamler
Profile - Tremblay
Profile - Vane
Profile on Ronald Loomis
Prologue - The Evangelicals Set Forth Their Case
Promises and Illusions
Prophets of the Apocalypse
Proposing a Bill for Intentional Communities
Prosecuting an Ex-Members Undue Influence Suit
Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
Pseudo-dentity and Treatment
Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Word of Life
Psychoanalysis and Cult Affiliation
Psychogroups and Cults in Denmark
Psychological Abuse
Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
Psychological Distress in Former ICC
Psychological Issues of Former Fundamentalists
Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
Psychologists Survey
Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the GPA
Psychosocial Evaluation-Suspected Psychological
Psychotherapy and the New Religions
Psychotherapy Cults
Psychotherapy Cults - an Ethical Analysis
Psychotherapy of a Casualty from a Mass Therapy Encounter Group
Psychotherapy With Ex-Cultists
Questionnaire for Former Cult Members: Results
Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
Questions from the Balcony A Critique of Dick Anthony
Raised in Cultic Groups
Razor’s Edge Indeed A Deprogrammer’s View of Harmful Cult Activity
Reading List: Undue Influence 101
Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
Reasons for Leaving
Reasons for Leaving Psychological Abuse and Distress Reported by Former Members of Cultic Groups
Rebuilding the Jigsaw
Reclaiming Life Stories
Reflecting on Cultural Diversity in Response to Cultic Activity
Reflections on Falun Gong and the Chinese Government
Reflections on Marriage and Children After the Cult
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Reflections on the Legion
Reintegration of Exiting Cult Members
Reject the Wicked Man
Religion et Secte
Religion Versus Cult
Religion, Revisionists, and Revolutionary Suicide
Religious Cults, Human Rights, and Public Policy: The Secular Perspective
Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse Statutes
Religious Freedom At Secular Schools
Religious Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
Religious Pluralism Dialogue
Religious Recoding
Reply to Dr Robbins
Reply to Xie
Report of the Task Force
Report of the Task Force Summary
Research on Destructive Cults
Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
Residence Halls and Cults - Fact or Fiction
Residential Treatment: The Potential for Cultic Evolution
Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
Resolution on Missionaries and Deprogramming
Responding to Jihadism
Response to Child Abuse Articles
Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
Returning to Cosmology
Ritual Child Abuse: Controversy
Ritual of Separation An Integrative Guideline for Helping Clients from High-Intensity Faith Groups
Ritualistic Abuse of Children
Role of Women in ISKCON
Satanism and Occult-Ritual Activity
Saved by Our Son
Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups A Partial Model
Second Thoughts on Cultic Involvement and Addictive Relationships
Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults
Seeking Accurate Information Part I
Selections From Second Vatican Councils
Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes
Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
Shepherding/Discipleship
Shipwrecked in the Spirit
Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
Sister My Sister
Six Conditions
Sleep Deprivation
Social Influence: Ethical Considerations
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Some Things I Learned
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Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
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The Cult of Parenthood A Qualitative Study of Parental Alienation
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The False Transformational Promise of Bible-Based Cults
The Falun Gong: Beyond the Headlines
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The Historical Dimension of Cultic Techniques
The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members
The Identity of Cult Members in the Narrative Aspect
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The International Churches of Christ Movement
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The Last Draw—Cults and Creativity
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The Marriage of the Lamb
The Millennium is Here
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The Rabbi and the Sex Cult
The Red Mosque
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The Relation of Group Philosophy
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
The Religion that Kills Christian Science, Abuse, Neglect, and Mind Control.
The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
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The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
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The Spread of Ásatrú in Vinland
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Too Good to be True Teacher
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Authority Its Use and Abuse
Autobiography of a Former Moonie
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Back From the Brink
Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
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Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
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Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement
Child Custody and Cults
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Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community
Children and Cults
Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
Choosing A Church
Christian Evangelism and Social Responsibility
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Closed Cults Open Conferences
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Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
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Contemporary Uses of the Brainwashing Concept 2000 to Mid-2007
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Conversion-Religious Change Challenge of NRM
Coping with Cult Involvement A Handbook for Families and Friends
Coping with Triggers
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Cultic Studies Bibliography
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Cultish Religious Sects and Politics The Brethren v. Greens Contest and Other Controversies Involving Minor Religious Sects Down Under
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Cults Evangelicals and the Ethics of Social Influence
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Cults of Hatred
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Cults Psychological Abuse and Thought Reform
Cults What Clergy Should Know
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Cults, Conversion, Science, and Harm
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Culture Shock - The Challenge of Building or Rebuilding a Life
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Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women & Children
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Dallas Former Member Support Group
Death of a Moonie Reflections of a Blessed Child
Deception in Transcendental Meditation
Deception, Dependency, and Dread
Denouement of the Prophets’ Cult The Church Universal and Triumphant in Decline
Deprogramming A Case Study
Deprogramming Ethics
Deprogramming Survey
Deprogramming: A Case Study 2
Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
Development of the Study of Mind Control in Japan
Devotees and Their Parents
Dialogue and Cultic Studies
Diana Play Therapy
Diana, Leaving the Cult
Disciple Abuse
Divergent European Cult Policies
Domestic Violence as a Cultic System
Dominance and Submission
Doomsday Religious Movements - Canadian Security Intelligence Report
Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
Dynamics Spirit Abuse
Dysfunctional Churches
Editors Introduction - Borawick vs. Shay Discussion
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Editor’s Corner
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Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
Enemies Within - Conflict and Control in the Baha i Community
Ethical Evangelism
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Ethics of Evangelism
European Muslims
Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
Evangelicals and Cults
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Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming
Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
Expanding the Groupthink Explanation
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Fair Game
False Memory and Buridans Ass
Falun Gong and the World
Families Helping Families
Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
Family Environment as a Factor in Vulnerability
Family Formation Culture Change in ISKCON
Family Life In and Out of a Cult
Family Perspectives on Involvements
Family Responses to a Young Adults
Fear and Pride in Ideographic Identification
Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
Film Review - Generation War Our Fathers, Our Mothers
Film Review The Matrix Cult
Finding and Losing My Religion
For Families Who Suspect That a Loved One May Be Involved With a High-Demand Group (Cult)
Former Members and Health-Care Reform
Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement
Forty Years in the Wilderness
Frankl Revisited
Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
Free Speech Survey Report
Freedom of the Mind
Freemen Soverign Citizens
French Publications On Cultic Phenomena
From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
From Counterfeit to Truth
From Deprogramming to Deradicalization
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From Survivor to Thriver
From the Fire to a Blessing Field
Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON
Further Reflections on Child Abuse Within ISKCON
Gender Attributes That Affect Women's Attraction
Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of GodThe Family
Getting Involved in a Cult
Gods Company--New Age Ethics
Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
Governments and Cults
Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
Group Influence and Psych of Cultism within
Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
Guidelines for Opus Dei: Statement by Cardinal Hume
Harm and New Religious Movements (NRMs) Some Notes on a Sociological Perspective
Harm and NRMs Perspectives From Psychology
Harm and NRMs Perspectives from Religious Studies, Sociology, and Psychology - Introduction
Have Cults Declined
Healing From Experiences
Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
History and Purpose of Model Presentations
History of American Family Foundation
History of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem
How Can Faith Communities Help Survivors of Spiritual Abuse?
How Can Young People Protect Themselves
How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults
How Children in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws
How Could Anyone Join a Cult
How Should Communities Movemnt Handle Qns of Abuse
How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
How to Find Information on a Group
How to Talk to People Who are Trying to Save You
How We Rescued Our Daughter
How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
Hypnosis and the Iatrogenic Creation of Memory
I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
ICSA Cults and Government
ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
Ideology, Demonization, and Scholarship The Need for Objectivity—A Response to Robbins' Comments on Rosedale, the Chinese Government, and Falun Gong
Illegal Missionary Work Lawsuits and Exit Counseling for Unification Church Members
Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
Imposed Anorexia A Model of Dietary Restriction in Four Ideological Groups
In favor of Per Se Exclusion of Hypnotically Influenced Testimony
In Good Faith
In the shadow of the new age Decoding the Findhorn Foundation.
Influence
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
Inner Experience
Innocent Murderers Abducted Children in the Lord’s Resistance Army
Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
Interacting with Cults: Police
Interesting Times
International Churches of Christ Introduction
International Cultic Studies Association, Cults, and Government
Introduction - We Own Her Now
Introduction to Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence
Introduction to Discussion with Johannes Aagaard
Introduction to Group Report on ISKCON
Introduction to Inaugural Issue
Introduction to the ICSA 2007 Annual Conference
Introduction to the Monograph
Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
Introductory Note to Family Studies
Is Falun Gong a “Cult”
Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
Is the New Age Movement Harmless
ISKCON in the News - Cult Observer 1984-1999
ISKCON Response to Child Abuse
Japan Society
Japanese Activities to Counter Cults
Jehovahs Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech
Jones on Jesus
Judgment by the Fukuoka
Just Joking
Krishna Venta
Large Group Awareness Trainings
Le Phénomène des Sectes. L'Étude du Fonctionnement des Groupes
Leaving a Cult for Music
Legal Analysis of Intent
Legal Considerations
Legal Decision-Borawick V Shay
Les rapports d’inspection des écoles privées
Lessons From Adjacent Fields Cults and Radical Extremist Groups
Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency
Lets Get Lost
Letter to a Former Member
Letters - A Comment on "Cult Conversion
Letters - Confessions of a "Cult" Watcher: An Alternative Point of View
Letters - Euphemizing Dramatic Intervention
Letters A Comment on "Cult Conversion, Deprogramming and the Triune Brain"
Life After Centrepoint
Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults
Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case
Lost Love
Lustful Prophet
Lying in Court and Religion
Manipulative Therapists
Marriage After the Cult
Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
Meditation, Delusion and Deception
Mental Health Interventions
Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
Meredith Poems
Methodological Fallacies in Anthony’s Critique of Exit Cost Analysis
Mind Control - Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric
Mind Control and the Battering of Women
Mind Control in New Religious Movements
Moments of Grace
Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
More Than the Devils Due
Mothers in cults
Movie Review - Martha Marcy May Marlene
My Experience in YWAM
My Perspective of Rosanne Henry and Leona Furnari's Presentation to the Annual SGA Workshop
My Unexpected Journey
My Voice
Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership
Narcissistic Fraud in the Ancient World Lucian’s Account of Alexander of Abonuteichos and the Cult of Glycon
Never Say Die
New Books on Polygamy
New Organizations Operating Under
New Religions and Public Policy
Nishida Kimiaki Figure
Nishida Kimiaki Table 1
Nishida Kimiaki Table 2
No Place to Go - Life in a Prison Without Bars
Nothing Need Go to Waste
Objectionable Aspects of Cults
Of Cults and Evangelicals
Of Urinals and Dark Forces
On Avatar
On Breaking the Code of Silence
On Conversations with God
On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
On Ken Wilber
On Resisting Social Influence
On the Outside Looking In Growing Up in the Moonies
On Using the Term "Cult"
Opus Dei Over Time
Origins and Prevention of Abuse
Outreach to Ex-Cult Members: The Question of Terminology
Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization
Overview: Support Groups
Panel: Can Cultic Groups Change
Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
Parental Responses
Pathological Psychoanalysis
Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
Peace at Last
Perceived Psychological Abuse
Perfect Master or Perfect Psychopath
Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film
Personality - Belief in the Paranormal
Perspectives on Cults As Affected by the September 11th Tragedy
Persuasive Techniques - Contemp Cults
Physical Child Abuse in Sects
Pitfalls to Recovery
Pluralism, Deeds, Creeds, and Cults
Poetry - Kocsis
Poetry: Donna Y. Orme-Collins
Poetry: Heather
Poetry: Jessica
Poetry: Lois Eaton
Poetry: MLP
Poetry: Moseley
Poetry: Nieland
Poetry: Welch
Poety - DeGraff
Point of View - it 1.1
Point of View - it 1.2
Point of View - it 3.2
Point of View - it 3.3
Point of View - it 4.1
Point of View - it 4.2
Point of View - it 4.3
Point of View - it 5.1
Point of View - IT 5.2
Points for Pastors
Post-Cult After Effects
Post-Cult Financial Recovery
Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
Post-Cult Problems: An Exit Counselor's Perspective
Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI
Prayer - Free Mandates Removed from Federal Health Care Bills
Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
Prevalence
Preventative Ed for High School Students
Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
Prevention Program on Psychologically Manipulative Techniques
Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
Problem Solving An Approach
Profile - Caparesi
Profile - dimarzio
Profile - Eichel
Profile - Giambalvo
Profile - Goldberg
Profile - Goldberg - Bill
Profile - Griess
Profile - Henry
Profile - Jarva
Profile - Kent
Profile - Kropveld
Profile - Miquelon
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Profile - Pardon Judy
Profile - Pardon Robert
Profile - Pelland
Profile - Pletts
Profile - Pressley
Profile - Rardin
Profile - Rodriguez
Profile - Ryan
Profile - Saldana
Profile - Stamler
Profile - Tremblay
Profile - Vane
Profile on Ronald Loomis
Prologue - The Evangelicals Set Forth Their Case
Promises and Illusions
Prophets of the Apocalypse
Proposing a Bill for Intentional Communities
Prosecuting an Ex-Members Undue Influence Suit
Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
Pseudo-dentity and Treatment
Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Word of Life
Psychoanalysis and Cult Affiliation
Psychogroups and Cults in Denmark
Psychological Abuse
Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
Psychological Distress in Former ICC
Psychological Issues of Former Fundamentalists
Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
Psychologists Survey
Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the GPA
Psychosocial Evaluation-Suspected Psychological
Psychotherapy and the New Religions
Psychotherapy Cults
Psychotherapy Cults - an Ethical Analysis
Psychotherapy of a Casualty from a Mass Therapy Encounter Group
Psychotherapy With Ex-Cultists
Questionnaire for Former Cult Members: Results
Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
Questions from the Balcony A Critique of Dick Anthony
Raised in Cultic Groups
Razor’s Edge Indeed A Deprogrammer’s View of Harmful Cult Activity
Reading List: Undue Influence 101
Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
Reasons for Leaving
Reasons for Leaving Psychological Abuse and Distress Reported by Former Members of Cultic Groups
Rebuilding the Jigsaw
Reclaiming Life Stories
Reflecting on Cultural Diversity in Response to Cultic Activity
Reflections on Falun Gong and the Chinese Government
Reflections on Marriage and Children After the Cult
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Reflections on the Legion
Reintegration of Exiting Cult Members
Reject the Wicked Man
Religion et Secte
Religion Versus Cult
Religion, Revisionists, and Revolutionary Suicide
Religious Cults, Human Rights, and Public Policy: The Secular Perspective
Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse Statutes
Religious Freedom At Secular Schools
Religious Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
Religious Pluralism Dialogue
Religious Recoding
Reply to Dr Robbins
Reply to Xie
Report of the Task Force
Report of the Task Force Summary
Research on Destructive Cults
Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
Residence Halls and Cults - Fact or Fiction
Residential Treatment: The Potential for Cultic Evolution
Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
Resolution on Missionaries and Deprogramming
Responding to Jihadism
Response to Child Abuse Articles
Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
Returning to Cosmology
Ritual Child Abuse: Controversy
Ritual of Separation An Integrative Guideline for Helping Clients from High-Intensity Faith Groups
Ritualistic Abuse of Children
Role of Women in ISKCON
Satanism and Occult-Ritual Activity
Saved by Our Son
Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups A Partial Model
Second Thoughts on Cultic Involvement and Addictive Relationships
Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults
Seeking Accurate Information Part I
Selections From Second Vatican Councils
Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes
Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
Shepherding/Discipleship
Shipwrecked in the Spirit
Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
Sister My Sister
Six Conditions
Sleep Deprivation
Social Influence: Ethical Considerations
Social Influences on Youth
Some Hazards of the Therapeutic Relationship
Some New Religions Are Dangerous
Some Rigors of Our Time Comments
Some Rigors of Our Times
Some Things I Learned
Some Thoughts on Conducting Research with Former Members
Sounding Creativity
Special Collection - Recovery from Cults - A Pastoral-Psychological Dialogue
Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments
Spiritual Harm in New Religions
Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality
Spotlight on Anthroposophy
Stairway to Heaven
State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor
State of Israel Report
Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
Strongly Held Views About the New Age
Supporting Human Rights
Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey
Survey Physicians
Survivor Nineninethree
Svoboda Wellspring Modification Proposal Draft
Symposium with Johannes Aagaard
Task Force Study of Ritual Crime
Teaching Students Who Already Know the Truth
Teaching Young People
Teenage Spirituality and the Internet
Ten Steps to Critical Thinking
Terror and Terrorism A History of Ideas and Philosophical-Ethical Reflections
Terror in the Name of God
Terrorism and Cultic Dynamics
Terrorism and Cults
Terrorist Motivations, Extreme Violence, and the Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Terrorist Organizations Are Cults
Terrorists Are Made, Not Born
The ABCs of Dangerous Cults
The Appeal of the Impossible
The Art of Hoping - Anonymous
The Boundaries Between Cultic
The Cadre Ideal
The Challenge of Defining Cult
The Chemistry of a Conflict The Chinese Government and the Falun Gong
The Children of God/The Family
The Council of Europes Report on Sects and NRM
The Crimes and Teachings of Aum Shinrikyo
The Cult Appeal-Susceptibilities of the Missionry Kid
The Cult Movement Ukraine - Petukhov
The Cult of Parenthood A Qualitative Study of Parental Alienation
The Cult That Is North Korea
The Dark Underside-Cultic
The Death of a Leader Homicide as a Means of Group Disengagement
The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult
The Effect of Religious Cults on Westrn Mainstrm Relgn
The Ethics of Blodless Medicine
The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment
The Ethics of Persuasion in a Pluralistic
The Evolution of a Cult and a Support Group for the Families of Its Members The Jim Roberts Group and The Roberts Group Parents Network
The Experience of the SPES Foundation
The False Transformational Promise of Bible-Based Cults
The Falun Gong: Beyond the Headlines
The Gentle Wind Project
The Grammatical Fiction
The Group Psychological Abuse Scale
The Helpmate of Males An Ethnography on Sex Segregation and Theocracy
The Historical Dimension of Cultic Techniques
The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members
The Identity of Cult Members in the Narrative Aspect
The Impact of a Modern-Day Polygamy Group on Women
The Individual Cult Experience Index
The Influence Continuum
The Influence of Persuasive Strategies Used by Cultic Groups in the Context of Forewarning
The International Churches of Christ Movement
The Internet as a New Place for Sects
The Involvement of College Students In Totalist Groups
The Last Draw—Cults and Creativity
The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation
The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective
The Making of a Disciple in the International Churches of Christ
The Marriage of the Lamb
The Millennium is Here
The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace
The Perils of Persuasive Preaching
The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
The PRC and Falun Gong
The Problems and Possibilities of Defining Precise Criteria to Distinguish Between Ethical and Unethical Proselytizing Evangelism
The Prophet's Fall A Note in Response to Lawrence Foster's The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma
The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment
The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership
The Psychology of Religious Genius Joseph Smith and the Origins of New Religious Movements
The Rabbi and the Sex Cult
The Red Mosque
The Red Mosque: A Case Study
The Relation of Group Philosophy
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
The Religion that Kills Christian Science, Abuse, Neglect, and Mind Control.
The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
The Role of Cognitive Distortion
The Role of the Family
The Seven-Stage Hate Model The Psychopathology of Hate Groups
The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
The Spiritual Crucible
The Spread of Ásatrú in Vinland
The Strategic Interaction Approach
The Teenage Dissent of Newman
The Teenage Dissent of Newman and Unamuno Conscience as a Safeguard Against Coercive Manipulation
The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control
The Threat of Entrepreneurial Freedom and Intitiative
The Two Camps of Cultic Studies
The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx
The Use of Transcendental Meditation to Promote
The Utilization of Hypnotic Techniques
The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements
The Violence of Jim Jones A Biopsychosocial Explanation
The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism
The Work of the German Sudwest Network
