Personal Accounts
Articles
A Personal Experience of Transcendental Meditation and the TM Movement - Stephen Coleman
Autobiography of a Former Moonie - Gary Scharff
Bible-Cult Mind Control - David Clark
Born into a Doomsday Cult – Andie Redwine
Coming Back Home – Julie Katzer
Compassion Betrayed: Spiritual Abuse in an American Zen Center - Katherine V. Masis
Crazy Wisdom: A Personal Account - William Yenner
Cult, A Love Story – Alexandra Amor
Death of a Moonie: Reflections of a "Blessed Child.” - Donna Orme-Collins
Family Life In and Out of a Cult – Elizabeth A.
Finding and Losing My Religion - Daniel Shaw
From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections - Steven J. Gelberg
From Counterfeit to Truth: A Personal Quest - Carson Miles
From Survivor to Thriver - Vennie Kocsis
From the Fire to a Blessing Field: Transitioning from an Unhealthy Relationship to a Life of Creativity – Karen Pressley
Getting Involved in a Cult is Easy; Getting Out Never Is – Gary M.
Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die - Ann Stamler
How Could Anyone Join a Cult?!! - Maureen Griffo
How We Rescued Our Daughter - Arthur A. Dole
I Really Believed that This Way of Living Was Right – Monique Goudsmit
Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology - Flavio Amaral
Moments of Grace - Nancy Miquelon
My Experience in YWAM: A Personal Account and Critique - Laurie Jacobson
My Voice: Learning to Speak After the Cult – Alice A
Nothing Need Go to Waste - Patrick Knapp
Of Urinals and Dark Forces: An Essay About Harmful Cult Influence on an Artist - Joseph Szimhart
On Breaking the Code of Silence – Kristen Skedgell DeVoe
Peace at Last - Gina Catena
Perfect Master or Perfect Psychopath - Erica Toren
Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film - Joseph P. Szimhart
Pink Slip - Ken Garret
Recovery for My Children and Myself - Gretchen Ward
Recovery: From Victim to Survivor to Thriver - Dorca Musseb (2-5)
Saved By Our Son - Russell Bradshaw
Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups - A Collective of Women
Sister, My Sister – Sophie G.
Some Things I Learned During My Seventeen Years in the Hare Krishna Movement - Steven J. Gelberg
Special Collection. Recovery From Cults: A Pastoral/Psychological Dialogue – Personal Accounts
Survivor Nineninethree - Elizabeth A. Ianelli
The Making of a Disciple in the International Churches of Christ - Kathy Kelly
The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship - Mary Garden
What Changed my Mind - Camilla Hanke
Why I had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult - Charlene Edge
Book Reviews
Book Review: American Guru: A Story of Love, Betrayal and Healing
Book Review: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Book Review: Cartwheels in a Sari: A memoir of Growing up Cult
Book Review: Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir.
Book Review: Enlightenment Blues: My Years with an American Guru
Book Review - Enthralled: The Guru Cult of Tibetan Buddhism
Book Review: fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
Book Review: I am Revealed: Behind the Ashram Door
Book Review: I Can’t Hear God Anymore
Book Review: In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Family
Book Review: India in a Mind’s Eye: Travels and Ruminations of an Ambivalent Pilgrim
Book Review: Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult
Book Review: Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
Book Review: Little X Growing up in the Nation of Islam
Book Review: Lost and Found: My Life in Group Marriage Commune
Book Review: Make Believe: A True Story
Book Review: My Life in Orange
Book Review: Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed
Book Review: Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult
Book Review - Paradise and Promises: Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
Book Review - Property: The True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife
Book Review: Robes of Silk, Feet of Clay
Book Review: Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple
Book Review: Shattered Dreams My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife
Book Review: The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman’s Cry for Reason
Book Review: The House of Yahweh: My Side of the Story
Book Review: The Mother of God
Book Review: The People & the Idiots: Surviving a Cult Childhood
Book Review: The Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction//
Book Review: The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy
Book Review: To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence
Book Review: Trail of Fears: A Journey From Heaven to Hollywood
Book Review: Without the Guru: How I took My life Back After 30 Years