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    • Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
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    • Dominance and Submission
    • Doomsday Religious Movements - Canadian Security Intelligence Report
    • Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
    • Dynamics Spirit Abuse
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    • Editors Introduction - Borawick vs. Shay Discussion
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    • 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
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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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    • False Memory and Buridans Ass
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    • 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
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    • Forty Years in the Wilderness
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    • Free Speech Survey Report
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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.
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    • Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
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    • Innocent Murderers Abducted Children in the Lord’s Resistance Army
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    • International Churches of Christ Introduction
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    • Introduction - We Own Her Now
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • Jehovahs Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech
    • Jones on Jesus
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    • Just Joking
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    • Large Group Awareness Trainings
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    • Leaving a Cult for Music
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    • Lets Get Lost
    • Letter to a Former Member
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    • Life After Centrepoint
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    • 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
    • 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
    • Thought Reform Exists
    • Thought Reform Programs
    • To the Reader and Comments
    • Too Good to be True Teacher
    • Touched: Disconfirming Pathogenic Beliefs of Thought Reform Through the Process of Acting
    • Training Issues for Cult Treatment Programs
    • Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism, and the Spirituality Paradigm
    • Translation of Abstracts
    • Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva
    • Traumatic Abuse in Cults
    • Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective
    • Treatment of Satanism
    • Trouble in Paradise
    • Twenty-Five Years Observing Cults An American Perspective
    • Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo
    • Un modèle d’intervention auprès des proches d’adeptes le concept de co-adepte
    • Understanding Eastern Groups
    • Undue Influence in Contract and Probate Law
    • Undue Influence Psychological Aspects
    • Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions
    • Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse
    • Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool A Case Study of Heaven’s Gate
    • Video Review - What Is A Cult and How Does it
    • Vulnerability
    • Warning Meditating May Be Hazardous to Your Health
    • We Weren't Crazy
    • What Changed My Mind
    • What Do We Need to Know About Being Born or Raised in a Cultic Environment?
    • What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member
    • What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member’s Family
    • What Is a Cult
    • What Is a Cult Definitional Preface
    • What is Evangelism
    • What is Hypnosis
    • What is New Age
    • What Is the Impact of Leaving a Cultic Group
    • What Messages Behind Cults
    • What Should be Done about Cults
    • What Should We Do About Cults: An Italian Perspective
    • What You Might Want To Know About
    • When Critical Thinking Doesn't Help Why It Fails and How to Make It Happen
    • When Endings Are Beginnings David’s Story
    • When the Cult Leader Hoists a Whilte Flag
    • When You're Asked About Cults
    • Why Cultic Groups Develop and Flourish
    • Why Cults Are Harmful Neurobiological Speculations
    • Why Did I Endure
    • Why Evangelicals are Vulnerable to Cults
    • Why I Had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult
    • Why Waldorf Programs are Unsuitable for Public Funding
    • Why We Need To Become Spiritual Consumers
    • Wifely Subjection--Mental Health Issues in JW Women
    • Wild Geese
    • Women and Cults-A Lawyers Perspective
    • Women Elderly Children in Religious Cults
    • Women the Law and Cults
    • Working with Cult-affected Families
    • Working with Women Survivors of Cults
    • Writing Betrayal of the Spirit
    • Writing Down the Pain
    • You Do Not Have to Be a Fool to Be Fooled
    • Zealotry and American Identity
    • Zen and the Art of Student Abuse
    • Zhu Response to Editor Comments
    • How a Dysfunctional Family Functions Like a Cult
    • Moving On: Dealing With Family Members Who Have Caused Us Harm
    • Book Reviews - The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
  • Book Reviews
    • Book Review - 400 Years of Imaginary Friends
    • Book Review - A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine
    • Book Review - A Different Gospel
    • Book Review - A Force Upon the Plain
    • Book Review - A Guide to New Religious Movements
    • Book Review - A Matter of Basic Principles Bill Gothard and the Christian Life
    • Book Review - A Time to Laugh
    • Book Review - Abducted How People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens
    • Book Review - Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome Breaking the Ties that Bind
    • Book Review - All the Emperors Men
    • Book Review - All the Fishes Come Home to Roost An American Misfit in India
    • Book Review - American Guru A Story of Love, Betrayal and Healing
    • Book Review - Americas Alternative Religions
    • Book Review - Anatomy of a Life Possessed
    • Book Review - Anti-Cult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective
    • Book Review - Apologetics in the New Age
    • Book Review - Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ
    • Book Review - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    • Book Review - Behind the Watchtower Curtain
    • Book Review - Betrayal of the Spirit
    • Book Review - Beyond Belief
    • Book Review - Black Sun
    • Book Review - Blurred Boundaries
    • Book Review - Born and Raised in a [SECT] - You Are Not Alone
    • Book Review - Born and Raised in a Sect You Are Not Alone
    • Book Review - Bounded Choice True Believers and Charismatic Cults
    • Book Review - Boy Soldiers
    • Book Review - Breaking Their Will
    • Book Review - Brief Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society
    • Book Review - Captive Hearts Captive Minds
    • Book Review - Captives of a Concept
    • Book Review - Captives of a Concept Understanding the Illusionary Concept that Holds Jehovah’s Witnesses Captive
    • Book Review - Cartwheels in a Sari A Memoir of Growing Up Cult
    • Book Review - Cassadaga The South’s Oldest Spiritual Community
    • Book Review - Charles Mason Remey and the Bahá'í Faith
    • Book Review - Child of the Cult
    • Book Review - Christian Millenarianism
    • Book Review - Christians in the Crossfire
    • Book Review - Church-State Relations
    • Book Review - Churches That Abuse
    • Book Review - Combating Cult Mind Control (25th Anniversary Revised Edition)
    • Book Review - Combatting Cult Mind Control
    • Book Review - Conversions--A Philosophic Memoir
    • Book Review - Coping with Cult Involvement
    • Book Review - Corporate Cults
    • Book Review - Crazy Therapies
    • Book Review - Cult Alert
    • Book Review - Cult Controversies
    • Book Review - Cult Encounter
    • Book Review - Cult Recovery A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Family
    • Book Review - Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Family
    • Book Review - Cults Too Good to be True
    • Book Review - Cults and Consequences
    • Book Review - Cults and New Religious Movements Understanding Cults and New Religions
    • Book Review - Cults and Personality
    • Book Review - Cults and the Occult
    • Book Review - Cults in our Midst
    • Book Review - Cults on Campus
    • Book Review - Cults Sects and the New Age
    • Book Review - Cults--Faith Healing and Coercion
    • Book Review - Cults-Culture-and the Law
    • Book Review - Dangerous Persuaders
    • Book Review - Daughter of the Goddess
    • Book Review - Dead, Insane, or in Jail A CEDU Memoir
    • Book Review - Deception by Design
    • Book Review - Deprogrammed (film review)
    • Book Review - Destorying the World to Save It
    • Book Review - Destructive and Terrorist Cults A New Kind of Slavery Leader, Followers, and Mind Manipulation
    • Book Review - Devotee Farm
    • Book Review - Dictionary of Cults The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Active New Religions
    • Book Review - Dictionary of Cults-Sects-Religions and the Occult
    • Book Review - Dolgyal Shugden
    • Book Review - Enlightenment Blues My Years with an American Guru
    • Book Review - Enthralled: The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism
    • Book Review - Escape My Lifelong War Against Cults
    • Book Review - Exit Counseling
    • Book Review - Father, Mother, God
    • Book Review - Feet of Clay
    • Book Review - Fire & Blood-Koresh
    • Book Review - For the Love of God
    • Book Review - Freedom of Mind
    • Book Review - From Deans List to Dumpsters
    • Book Review - From Slogans to Mantras Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era
    • Book Review - God vs. the Gavel Religion and the Rule of Law
    • Book Review - God’s Brothel The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped
    • Book Review - Going Clear
    • Book Review - Going Deeper
    • Book Review - Grandparents’ Rights
    • Book Review - Greetings from Utopia Park; Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
    • Book Review - Handbook of Religious Experience
    • Book Review - Hare Krishna Transformed
    • Book Review - Help At Any Cost
    • Book Review - Herding the Moo
    • Book Review - Holy Madness - Mystery of Light
    • Book Review - Holy Madness CSR 2-3.doc
    • Book Review - Holy Rollers Murder and Madness in Oregon’s Love Cult
    • Book Review - Holy Smoke
    • Book Review - How to Rescue Your Loved One from Mormonism
    • Book Review - Hungry for Ecstasy
    • Book Review - Hypocrisy and Dissent within the Findhorn Foundation
    • Book Review - I Can’t Hear God Anymore
    • Book Review - Imaginary Friends
    • Book Review - In Pursuit of Satan
    • Book Review - In the Name of God
    • Book Review - In the Shadow of the Moons
    • Book Review - In the Shadow of the New Age
    • Book Review - Index of Watchtower Errors
    • Book Review - India in a Mind’s Eye
    • Book Review - Influence
    • Book Review - Inside Out A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult
    • Book Review - Institutionalized Persuasion
    • Book Review - Isaac Newton The Last Sorcerer
    • Book Review - Island
    • Book Review - Jesus Doesnt Live Here Anymore
    • Book Review - Jesus Freaks A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge
    • Book Review - Jesus in an Age of Controversy
    • Book Review - Justice Denied
    • Book Review - Killer Cults
    • Book Review - La explotación de la fe
    • Book Review - La persuasione socialmente accettata
    • Book Review - Lambs to Slaughter
    • Book Review - Le Dico des Sectes
    • Book Review - Le Phénomène des Sectes
    • Book Review - Leaders and Followers--A Psychiatric Perspective on Religious Cults
    • Book Review - Leaving Cults--The Dynamics of Defection
    • Book Review - Leaving the Fold
    • Book Review - Les Sectes
    • Book Review - Les sectes en France
    • Book Review - Les Sectes--Cults-A State of Emergency
    • Book Review - Little X--Growing Up in the Nation of Islam
    • Book Review - Lost and Found My Life in a Group Marriage Commune
    • Book Review - Lost Boy
    • Book Review - Lost Boy
    • Book Review - Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism
    • Book Review - Madame Blavatskys Baboon
    • Book Review - Madness and Evil—A Review of The Sullivanian InstituteFourth Wall Community The Relationship of Radical Individualism and Authoritarianism
    • Book Review - Make Believe--A True Story
    • Book Review - Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time A Psychological Study of Destructive Cult Leaders from Reverend Jim Jones to Osama bin Laden
    • Book Review - Manson The Life and Times of Charles Manson
    • Book Review - Memory-Trauma Treatment and the Law
    • Book Review - Merchants of Deception
    • Book Review - Mesmerized The History of Mesmerization
    • Book Review - Mind-Forged Manacles
    • Book Review - Misunderstanding Cults
    • Book Review - Modern Religions
    • Book Review - Money and Power in New Religions
    • Book Review - Monkey on a Stick
    • Book Review - Moon Sisters-Krishna Mothers-Rajneesh Lovers
    • Book Review - More Revealed--A Critical Analysis of AA and the 12 Steps
    • Book Review - Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out
    • Book Review - Mushroom Satori
    • Book Review - My Life in Orange
    • Book Review - Mystical Diets
    • Book Review - New Age Almanac
    • Book Review - New Religions and the Nazis
    • Book Review - Norman Einstein
    • Book Review - Not Without My Sister The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed
    • Book Review - Occult America
    • Book Review - ocCULT They Didn't Think It Could Happen in Their Church
    • Book Review - On the Edge - Tabernacle of Hate
    • Book Review - On the Edge / Tabernacle of Hate
    • Book Review - Opus Dei An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
    • Book Review - Orthodoxy and Heresy
    • Book Review - Other Altars
    • Book Review - Our Father, Who Art in Bed A Naïve and Sentimental Dubliner in the Legion of Christ
    • Book Review - Out of Darkness
    • Book Review - Out of the Cocoon A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult
    • Book Review - Out of the Cults and into the Church
    • Book Review - Painted Black
    • Book Review - Paradise and Promises
    • Book Review - Peculiar Prophets
    • Book Review - People Who Play God How Ultra-Authorities Enslave the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Their Victims
    • Book Review - Perspectives on the New Age
    • Book Review - Polygamy’s Rape of Rachael Strong Protected Environment for Predators
    • Book Review - Power Games Influence, Persuasion and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training
    • Book Review - Prophetic Charisma
    • Book Review - Prophets of the Apocalypse
    • Book Review - Prophet’s Daughter My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant
    • Book Review - Quivering Daughters Hope and Healing for the Daughters of Patriarchy
    • Book Review - Ranger’s Apprentice Book 8
    • Book Review - Recovering from Churches That Abuse
    • Book Review - Recovery from Abusive Groups
    • Book Review - Recovery from Cults
    • Book Review - Reincarnation--The Missing Link in Christianity
    • Book Review - Religion and Political Violence
    • Book Review - Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology
    • Book Review - Religion and the Social Order
    • Book Review - Rise and Fall of Synanon
    • Book Review - Rudolf Steiner An Introduction to His Life and Work
    • Book Review - S.
    • Book Review - Saints and Psychopaths
    • Book Review - Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
    • Book Review - Scientology
    • Book Review - Scientology in Popular Culture
    • Book Review - Sectas, Cuando el parais es un infierno
    • Book Review - Sects and New Religious Movements
    • Book Review - Seductive Poison-A Jonestown Survivors Story
    • Book Review - Servant of the Lotus Feet A Hare Krishna Odyssey
    • Book Review - Shamans and Religions
    • Book Review - Shattered Dreams My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife
    • Book Review - Shooting for the Stars
    • Book Review - Sin--Radical Evil in Soul and Society
    • Book Review - Snowboarding to Nirvana
    • Book Review - Something Somebody Stole
    • Book Review - Spiritual Abuse
    • Book Review - Spiritual Abuse Recovery
    • Book Review - Spiritual Abuse Recovery Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of Wholeness
    • Book Review - Spiritual Choices
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    • 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 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