Recovery and Counseling Issues
Articles
Videos - ICSA's YouTube Channel
A Scientific Theory of Brainwashing. Benjamin Zablocki (Power Point)
An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What is It and How Does It Form? - Gillie Jenkinson
An Open Letter to Clergy Regarding Helping Former Members of Abusive Churches or Cults – Carol Giambalvo
Antisocial Personality Disorder in Cult Leaders and Induction of Dependent Personality Disorder in Cult Members - John Burke
Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful? Jodi Aronoff McKibben, et al.
Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Techniques. Richard Ofshe, et al.
Clinical and Diagnostic Issues of Cultism: Group Dependence Disorder - Miguel Perlado
Coming Out of the Cults. Margaret Singer, PhD
Cult Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents and Professionals - Michael D. Langone
Cult Pseudo-Creativity vs. Creativity in Recovery - Gillie Jenkinson
Cult-Induced Psychopathology, Part I: Clinical Picture - Stephen M. Ash
Cults and Families. Doni Whitsett, et al.
Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis – Douglas Agustin
Family Responses to a Young Adult's Cult Membership and Return. Lorna Goldberg, et al.
Former Members and Health Care Reform – Livia Bardin
Healing from Experiences with Unhealthy Spiritual Groups and Cults: Treatment Using Myths and Folk Tales. Leland E. Shields, et al.
ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model – Carol Giambalvo, et al.
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader: Psychotherapy With an Ex-Cultist Prosecuted for Criminal Behavior - Lorna Goldberg
Inner Experience and Conversion - Michael D. Langone
Letter to a Former Member of a Meditation Group - Michael D. Langone
Marriage After the Cult – Lorna Goldberg
Mental Health Interventions in Cult-Related Cases: Preliminary Investigation of Outcomes. Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel, et al.
More Than the Devil's Due - Adrian J. Reimers
Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership - Nori Muster
Parental Responses to Their Children's Cult Membership - Lita Linzer Schwartz
Post-Cult Financial Recovery - Mattie Elizabeth Green
Pseudo-identity and the Treatment of Personality Change in Victims of Captivity and Cults. Louis J. West, et al.
Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Members of Word of Life. Gudrun Swartling, et al.
Psychoanalysis and Cult Affiliation: Clinical Perspectives - David Halperin
Psychological Abuse - Michael D. Langone
Psychological Issues of Former Fundamentalists - James C. Moyers
Psychotherapy with Ex-Cultists: Four Case Studies and Commentary - Lorna Goldberg
Rebuilding the Jigsaw - Gillie Jenkinson
Reclaiming Life Stories After Cult Immersion - Greg Jemsek
Reflections on Marriage and Children After the Cult - Lorna Goldberg
Reintegration of Exiting Cult Members with their Families: A Brief Intervention Model. Kevin Crawley, et al.
Reject the Wicked Man" - Coercive Persuasion and Deviance Production: A Study of Conflict Management - Jerry Paul McDonald
Second Thoughts on Cultic Involvement and Addictive Relationships - Miguel Perlado
Spiritual Harm in New Religions: Reflections on Interviews with Former Members of NRMs - Phillip Charles Lucas
The Last Draw” – Cults and Creativity - Dana Wehle
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist - Daniel Shaw
The Strategic Interaction Approach - Steven Hassan
Touched: Disconfirming Pathogenic Beliefs of Thought Reform Through the Process of Acting - Colleen Russell
Training Issues for Cult Treatment Programs - David Halperin
Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective - Daniel Shaw
Trouble in Paradise: Some Observations on Psychotherapy with New Agers - Steve & Linda Dubrow-Eichel
Un modèle d’intervention auprès des proches d’adeptes : le concept de co-adepte - Jean-Claude Maes
Writing Betrayal of the Spirit: Autobiographical Writing As Therapy - Nori Muster
Writing Down the Pain: A Case Study of the Benefits of Writing for Cult Survivors - K. Gordon Neufeld
Book Reviews
Book Review: Churches That Abuse
Book Review: Combatting Cult Mind Control
Book Review: Cults in Our Midst
Book Review: Grandparents’ Rights: What Every Grandparent Needs to Know
Book Review: Leaders and Followers: A Psychiatric Perspective on Religious Cults
Book Review: Leaving Cults: The Dynamics of Defection
Book Review: Recovering from Churches That Abuse
Book Review: Recovery from Abusive Groups
Book Review: Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse
Book Review: Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Book Review: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
Book Review: Touchstones: Reconnecting After a Cult Experience