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Cults, Conversion, Science and Harm - Speakers
When: May 4-5, 2001
Where: New York City area (Holiday Inn, Newark Airport)
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton
will be the keynote speaker. Distinguished
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Director, Center on Violence and
Human Survival, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center,
City University of New York
- Margaret T.
Singer, Ph.D. Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University
of California, Berkeley. Dr. Singer's study of cultic groups builds on her
early research into coercive persuasion during the Korean War. She is the
co-author of Cults in Our Midst
and Crazy Therapies. Widely
regarded as the leading psychotherapist in this field, Dr. Singer has worked
with thousands of cult-affected individuals and families.
- Dr. Margaret Singer and other AFF helping
professionals will participate in a special two-and-one-half hour "Getting
Help" program that will include abundant time for questions and answers.
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- Livia
Bardin, M.S.W.
- Psychotherapist; Clinical Social Worker,
Washington, D.C
- Dean Borgman, M.A., CAGS
- Associate Professor of Youth Ministry,
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- Robin Boyle, J.D.
- Assistant Legal Writing Professor, St.
John's University School of Law
- Carey Bowen
- Carey Bowen is organizing several panels in
which a mental health professional speaks with one or more former members.
These panels will help you better understand why people join cultic groups,
how they change in the groups, how they come out, and how they readjust
after they leave.
- Craig Branch
- President and Director, Apologetics Resource
Center
- Dianne Casoni, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, School of Criminology,
University of Montreal
- David Clark
- Thought Reform Consultant, Philadelphia, PA
- Arthur Dole, Ph.D., ABPP
- Emeritus Professor of Education, University
of Pennsylvania
- Linda Dubrow, Ph.D.
- Psychologist, RETIRN (Re-entry Information &
Referral Network)
- Steve Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP
- Psychologist and Co-director of RETIRN,
Philadelphia, PA
- Ray Dreitlein, Ph.D.
- Professor of Psychology at Kean University,
Instructor at Rutgers University Center for Alcohol Studies. Private
practice in psychotherapy, Berkeley Heights, NJ.
- Fr. Michael Duggan, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Theology and
Religious Studies at St. Mary's, College in Calgary and priest of the
Diocese of Calgary, Alberta
- Carol
Giambalvo
- AFF Outreach Director;
Thought Reform Consultant, Flagler
Beach, FL
- Carol Giambalvo and
other AFF helping professionals will participate in a special
two-and-one-half hour "Getting Help" program that will include abundant time
for questions and answers.
- Lorna
Goldberg, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., New Jersey Institute of Psychoanalysis,
Teaneck, NJ
- Lorna Goldberg and
other AFF helping professionals will participate in a special
two-and-one-half hour "Getting Help" program that will include abundant time
for questions and answers.
- Maureen Griffo
- Board Member, reFOCUS, New York City
- Steven Hassan, M.Ed., LMHC
- Director, Freedom of Mind Resource Center,
Cambridge, MA
- Randy Kandel, Ph.D., J.D.
- Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola Law
School, Los Angeles
- Joseph
Kelly
- Thought
Reform Consultant Philadelphia, PA
- Lois
Kendall
- Doctoral Candidate in Psychology,
Buckinghamshire College, England
English researchers
- Stephen Kent, Ph.D.
- Professor of Sociology, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
- Mike
Kropveld
- Director, Info-Cult, Montreal, Canada
- Janja
Lalich, M.A., Ph.D.
- Education Director, Community Resources on
Influence and Control, Alameda, CA
- Michael
Langone, Ph.D.
- Executive Director, AFF; Editor,
Cultic Studies Journal
- Fr. James LeBar
- priest of the Archdiocese of New York
- Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.
- Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and
Psychology and Director, Center on Violence and Human Survival, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New
York
- Peter Malinoski, Ph.D.
- Candidate, Ohio University, Meridian
Psychological Associates, Indianapolis, IN
- Arnold Markowitz, M.S.W., C.S.W.
- Director, Cult Hotline & Clinic, Jewish
Board of Family and Children's Services, New York City
- Rod
Marshall, Ph.D.
- Senior Lecturer in Psychology,
Buckinghamshire College, England
- Jean-Francois Mayer, Ph.D.
- University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Jodi Aronoff McKibben, M.S., Ph.D.
Candidate,
- Ohio University, Research Scientist,
University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Mary O'Connell
- New York City
- Rev. Robert Pardon
- Co-Director/Administrator, New England
Institute of Religious Research, Lakeville, MA
- Herbert
Rosedale, Esq.
- President, AFF; Senior Partner, Parker
Chapin Flattau & Klimpl, New York City
- Marcia Rudin, M.A.
- Founding Director, International Cult
Education Program
- Patrick
Ryan
- AFF Web site manager;
Thought Reform Consultant,
Philadelphia, PA Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D.
- Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Psychology,
University of California, Berkeley
- Joseph Szimhart
- Potstown, PA
- Hana Whitfield,
- Thought Reform Consultant, Cape Coral, FL
- Jerry Whitfield
- Thought Reform Consultant, Cape Coral, FL
Jonibeth Whitney, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate,
California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, Counseling Center of
Santa Monica
Wendy Ford Wolfberg, M.Ed.,Boston, MA.
- Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D.
- Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
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