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    • 1979–2019: The Changing Population of ICSA
    • 2012 Paul R. Martin Lecture - Thought Reform
    • 2013 Conference Awards at ICSA Annual International Conference
    • A 30-year Odyssey.doc
    • A Comparison of Different Countries' Approaches
    • A Few Things I've Learned
    • A Personal Experience of TM
    • A Psychosocial Analysis of the Terrorist Group
    • A Recovery-from-Addictions Model
    • A Remarkable Consensus
    • A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community
    • A Workshop for People Born or Raised in Cultic Groups
    • Abstract Surrealism—My Journey Back to Myself After ISKCON
    • Abuso Psicológico en Grupos: Taxonomía y Severidad de sus Componentes
    • Academic Disputes and Dialogue
    • AFF Statement on China and Falun Gong
    • 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
    • Anxiety and Decision-Making
    • Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful
    • Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive
    • Arts A 30-Year Odyssey
    • Aspects of Alternative Spirituality
    • Aspects of Concern Regarding Legion of Christ
    • Assessment of Psychological Abuse
    • Attacks on Peripheral vs Central Elements of Self
    • Austrian Perspectives on Cults
    • Back From the Brink
    • Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
    • Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion
    • Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
    • Born Into a Doomsday Cult
    • Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups
    • Boston Church of Christ Movement
    • Boston Church of Christ Movement Abridged
    • 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
    • Challenging Authority
    • Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement
    • Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups
    • Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups
    • Checks on Power and Authority
    • Child Custody and Cults
    • Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect
    • Children and Cults
    • Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
    • Choosing A Church
    • Cleansing Ritual
    • 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
    • Coming Back Home
    • Coming out of the Cults
    • Common Myths and Misconceptions About Cults and Cultic Groups
    • Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
    • Coping with Triggers
    • Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach
    • Crazy Wisdom
    • Creativity and Cults
    • Cult A Love Story
    • Cult Formation
    • Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents
    • Cult Is As Cult Does
    • Cultic Dimensions London Bombings
    • Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom
    • Cultism and American Culture
    • Cults A Natural Disaster
    • Cults and Globalization
    • Cults and Sex Trafficking
    • Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis
    • Cults in Court
    • Cults What Clergy Should Know
    • Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society
    • Cults, Religion, and China
    • 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
    • Dallas Former Member Support Group
    • Deception in Transcendental Meditation
    • Deception, Dependency, and Dread
    • Deprogramming Survey
    • Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
    • Dialogue and Cultic Studies
    • Diana, Leaving the Cult
    • Divergent European Cult Policies
    • Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
    • Dysfunctional Churches
    • Editor’s Corner
    • Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
    • Ethics of Evangelism
    • European Muslims
    • Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
    • Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
    • Fair Game
    • Families Helping Families
    • Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
    • Family Life In and Out of a Cult
    • Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
    • 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
    • Forty Years in the Wilderness
    • Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
    • Free Speech Survey Report
    • Freemen Soverign Citizens
    • From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
    • 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
    • Getting Involved in a Cult
    • Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
    • Governments and Cults
    • Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
    • Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
    • Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
    • Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
    • History and Purpose of Model Presentations
    • 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 Against Cults
    • How Could Anyone Join a Cult
    • How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
    • How to Find Information on a Group
    • How We Rescued Our Daughter
    • How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
    • I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
    • ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
    • Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
    • Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
    • Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
    • Influence
    • Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
    • Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
    • Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
    • Interacting with Cults: Police
    • Introduction to the Monograph
    • Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
    • Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
    • Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
    • Jones on Jesus
    • Large Group Awareness Trainings
    • Leaving a Cult for Music
    • Legal Considerations
    • 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
    • Life After Centrepoint
    • Lost Love
    • Manipulative Therapists
    • Marriage After the Cult
    • Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
    • Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
    • Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
    • 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
    • New Books on Polygamy
    • New Religions and Public Policy
    • On Breaking the Code of Silence
    • On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
    • On Using the Term "Cult"
    • Origins and Prevention of Abuse
    • Overview: Support Groups
    • Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
    • Pathological Psychoanalysis
    • Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
    • Peace at Last
    • Physical Child Abuse in Sects
    • Pitfalls to Recovery
    • Points for Pastors
    • Post-Cult After Effects
    • Post-Cult Financial Recovery
    • Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
    • Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
    • Prevalence
    • Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
    • Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
    • Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
    • Problem Solving An Approach
    • Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
    • Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
    • Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
    • Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
    • Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
    • Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
    • Psychologists Survey
    • Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
    • Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
    • Raised in Cultic Groups
    • Reading List: Undue Influence 101
    • Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
    • Reasons for Leaving
    • Rebuilding the Jigsaw
    • Reclaiming Life Stories
    • Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
    • Reflection on the Life of Daphne (Lady) Vane
    • 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 Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
    • Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
    • Reply to Dr Robbins
    • Report of the Task Force
    • Report of the Task Force Summary
    • Research on Destructive Cults
    • Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
    • Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
    • Responding to Jihadism
    • Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
    • Saved by Our Son
    • Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
    • Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
    • Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
    • Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
    • Sister My Sister
    • Six Conditions
    • Social Influences on Youth
    • Some Things I Learned
    • Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments
    • Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality
    • Stairway to Heaven
    • State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor
    • Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
    • Supporting Human Rights
    • Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey
    • Survey Physicians
    • Survivor Nineninethree
    • Teaching Young People
    • Ten Steps to Critical Thinking
    • The ABCs of Dangerous Cults
    • The Art of Hoping - Anonymous
    • The Challenge of Defining Cult
    • The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult
    • The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment
    • The Gentle Wind Project
    • The Grammatical Fiction
    • 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 Influence Continuum
    • The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation
    • The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective
    • The Marriage of the Lamb
    • The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
    • The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
    • The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
    • The Role of Cognitive Distortion
    • The Role of the Family
    • The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
    • The Strategic Interaction Approach
    • The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control
    • The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx
    • The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements
    • Thought Reform Exists
    • Thought Reform Programs
    • Too Good to be True Teacher
    • Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva
    • Traumatic Abuse in Cults
    • Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective
    • Treatment of Satanism
    • Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo
    • Understanding Eastern Groups
    • Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions
    • Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse
    • Vulnerability
    • 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 Hypnosis
    • What is New Age
    • What Is the Impact of Leaving a Cultic Group
    • What Messages Behind Cults
    • 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 Cults Are Harmful Neurobiological Speculations
    • Why Did I Endure
    • Why I Had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult
    • Why We Need To Become Spiritual Consumers
    • Wild Geese
    • Working with Cult-affected Families
    • Writing Betrayal of the Spirit
    • You Do Not Have to Be a Fool to Be Fooled
    • Zealotry and American Identity
    • Zen and the Art of Student Abuse
    • How a Dysfunctional Family Functions Like a Cult
    • Moving On: Dealing With Family Members Who Have Caused Us Harm
    • Pink Slip!
    • We Disagree—Let’s Talk! Why Diversity and Dialogue Are Necessary, and How W
    • Recovery: From Victim to Survivor to Thriver
    • What Counselors Should Know About Cultic Dynamics
    • The Genesis, Text, and Implications of Utah House Bill 214: Office for Vict
    • If You Want To Know How I Got Brainwashed
    • Litigating Against Cults in Japan Practical Issues
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      • Abstracts
    • Wounded Faith
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    • 1979–2019: The Changing Population of ICSA
    • 2012 Paul R. Martin Lecture - Thought Reform
    • 2013 Conference Awards at ICSA Annual International Conference
    • A 30-year Odyssey.doc
    • A Comparison of Different Countries' Approaches
    • A Few Things I've Learned
    • A Personal Experience of TM
    • A Psychosocial Analysis of the Terrorist Group
    • A Recovery-from-Addictions Model
    • A Remarkable Consensus
    • A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community
    • A Workshop for People Born or Raised in Cultic Groups
    • Abstract Surrealism—My Journey Back to Myself After ISKCON
    • Abuso Psicológico en Grupos: Taxonomía y Severidad de sus Componentes
    • Academic Disputes and Dialogue
    • AFF Statement on China and Falun Gong
    • 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
    • Anxiety and Decision-Making
    • Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful
    • Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive
    • Arts A 30-Year Odyssey
    • Aspects of Alternative Spirituality
    • Aspects of Concern Regarding Legion of Christ
    • Assessment of Psychological Abuse
    • Attacks on Peripheral vs Central Elements of Self
    • Austrian Perspectives on Cults
    • Back From the Brink
    • Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
    • Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion
    • Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
    • Born Into a Doomsday Cult
    • Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups
    • Boston Church of Christ Movement
    • Boston Church of Christ Movement Abridged
    • 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
    • Challenging Authority
    • Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement
    • Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups
    • Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups
    • Checks on Power and Authority
    • Child Custody and Cults
    • Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect
    • Children and Cults
    • Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
    • Choosing A Church
    • Cleansing Ritual
    • 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
    • Coming Back Home
    • Coming out of the Cults
    • Common Myths and Misconceptions About Cults and Cultic Groups
    • Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
    • Coping with Triggers
    • Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach
    • Crazy Wisdom
    • Creativity and Cults
    • Cult A Love Story
    • Cult Formation
    • Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents
    • Cult Is As Cult Does
    • Cultic Dimensions London Bombings
    • Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom
    • Cultism and American Culture
    • Cults A Natural Disaster
    • Cults and Globalization
    • Cults and Sex Trafficking
    • Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis
    • Cults in Court
    • Cults What Clergy Should Know
    • Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society
    • Cults, Religion, and China
    • 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
    • Dallas Former Member Support Group
    • Deception in Transcendental Meditation
    • Deception, Dependency, and Dread
    • Deprogramming Survey
    • Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
    • Dialogue and Cultic Studies
    • Diana, Leaving the Cult
    • Divergent European Cult Policies
    • Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
    • Dysfunctional Churches
    • Editor’s Corner
    • Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
    • Ethics of Evangelism
    • European Muslims
    • Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
    • Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
    • Fair Game
    • Families Helping Families
    • Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
    • Family Life In and Out of a Cult
    • Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
    • 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
    • Forty Years in the Wilderness
    • Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
    • Free Speech Survey Report
    • Freemen Soverign Citizens
    • From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
    • 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
    • Getting Involved in a Cult
    • Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
    • Governments and Cults
    • Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
    • Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
    • Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
    • Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
    • History and Purpose of Model Presentations
    • 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 Against Cults
    • How Could Anyone Join a Cult
    • How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
    • How to Find Information on a Group
    • How We Rescued Our Daughter
    • How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
    • I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
    • ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
    • Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
    • Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
    • Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
    • Influence
    • Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
    • Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
    • Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
    • Interacting with Cults: Police
    • Introduction to the Monograph
    • Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
    • Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
    • Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
    • Jones on Jesus
    • Large Group Awareness Trainings
    • Leaving a Cult for Music
    • Legal Considerations
    • 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
    • Life After Centrepoint
    • Lost Love
    • Manipulative Therapists
    • Marriage After the Cult
    • Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
    • Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
    • Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
    • 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
    • New Books on Polygamy
    • New Religions and Public Policy
    • On Breaking the Code of Silence
    • On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
    • On Using the Term "Cult"
    • Origins and Prevention of Abuse
    • Overview: Support Groups
    • Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
    • Pathological Psychoanalysis
    • Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
    • Peace at Last
    • Physical Child Abuse in Sects
    • Pitfalls to Recovery
    • Points for Pastors
    • Post-Cult After Effects
    • Post-Cult Financial Recovery
    • Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
    • Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
    • Prevalence
    • Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
    • Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
    • Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
    • Problem Solving An Approach
    • Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
    • Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
    • Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
    • Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
    • Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
    • Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
    • Psychologists Survey
    • Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
    • Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
    • Raised in Cultic Groups
    • Reading List: Undue Influence 101
    • Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
    • Reasons for Leaving
    • Rebuilding the Jigsaw
    • Reclaiming Life Stories
    • Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
    • Reflection on the Life of Daphne (Lady) Vane
    • 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 Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
    • Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
    • Reply to Dr Robbins
    • Report of the Task Force
    • Report of the Task Force Summary
    • Research on Destructive Cults
    • Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
    • Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
    • Responding to Jihadism
    • Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
    • Saved by Our Son
    • Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
    • Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
    • Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
    • Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
    • Sister My Sister
    • Six Conditions
    • Social Influences on Youth
    • Some Things I Learned
    • Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments
    • Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality
    • Stairway to Heaven
    • State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor
    • Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
    • Supporting Human Rights
    • Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey
    • Survey Physicians
    • Survivor Nineninethree
    • Teaching Young People
    • Ten Steps to Critical Thinking
    • The ABCs of Dangerous Cults
    • The Art of Hoping - Anonymous
    • The Challenge of Defining Cult
    • The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult
    • The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment
    • The Gentle Wind Project
    • The Grammatical Fiction
    • 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 Influence Continuum
    • The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation
    • The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective
    • The Marriage of the Lamb
    • The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
    • The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
    • The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
    • The Role of Cognitive Distortion
    • The Role of the Family
    • The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
    • The Strategic Interaction Approach
    • The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control
    • The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx
    • The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements
    • Thought Reform Exists
    • Thought Reform Programs
    • Too Good to be True Teacher
    • Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva
    • Traumatic Abuse in Cults
    • Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective
    • Treatment of Satanism
    • Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo
    • Understanding Eastern Groups
    • Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions
    • Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse
    • Vulnerability
    • 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
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Domestic Violence as a Cultic System - David Ward

Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults - Janja Lalich

Gender Attributes That Affect Women’s Attraction to and Involvement in Cults - Shelly Rosen

Introduction: “We Own Her Now.” - Janja Lalich

Mind Control" and the Battering of Women -Teresa Ramirez Boulette, et al.

Mothers In Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children - Alexandra Stein

No Place to Go: Life in a Prison Without Bars - Katherine Betz

Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups - A Collective of Women

The "Helpmate" of Males: An Ethnography on Sex Segregation and Theocracy - Cliff Cheng

Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah’s Witness Women - Kaynor J. Weishaupt, et al.

Women and Cults: A Lawyer's Perspective - Herbert Rosedale

Women, Elderly, and Children in Religious Cults - Marcia Rudin

Women, the Law, and Cults: Three Avenues of Legal Recourse—New Rape Laws, Violence Against Women Act, and Antistalking Laws - Robin A. Boyle

Working with Women Survivors of Cults: An Empowerment Model for Counselors - Penny Dahlen

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