Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.

Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP,  Clinical Associate, Re-Entry Therapy, Information & Referral Network, Newark, DE; Past-President, American Academy of Counseling Psychology; Chair, Psychology & Law Committee, Delaware Psychological Association. Dr. Eichel is a licensed and Board-certified counseling psychologist whose involvement in cultic studies began with a participant-observation study of Moonist training in their Eastern seminary (in Barrytown, NY) in the spring of 1975. His first-hand account of indoctrination in Barrytown changed his personal and professional life forever. As one of Art Dole's graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania he completed his doctoral dissertation, which to date remains the only intensive, quantified observation of a deprogramming. He was honored with AFF's 1990 John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies for this study, which was published as a special issue of the Cultic Studies Journal and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1983, along with Dr. Linda Dubrow-Marshall and clinical social worker Roberta Eisenberg, Dr. Eichel founded RETIRN, the Re-Entry Therapy, Information & Referral Network, one of the field's oldest continuing private providers of psychological services to families and individuals harmed by cultic practices. RETIRN currently has offices in Newark, Delaware, Lansdowne, PA and Pontypridd, Wales (U.K.). Presently, in addition to his psychology practice, Dr. Eichel is on the Executive Advisory Board of ICSA and the Editorial Board of Cultic Studies Review. He has co-authored several articles and book reviews on cult-related topics for the CSJ/CSR. (steve@DrEichel.com)  http://www.dreichel.com/

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Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "Is The New Age Movement Harmless? Critics Versus Experts" - abs
Eichel, Steve K. D,. Ph.D.: "Can Scholars Be Deceived? Empirical Evidence from Social Psychology and History"
Eichel, Steve K. D., Ph.D.: "Building Resistance"
Eichel, Steve K. D., Ph.D.: "Deprogramming: A Case Study Part II: Conversation Analysis" - abstract
Eichel, Steve K.D. & Dubrow-Marshalll, Linda: "Trouble in Paradise: Some Observations on Psychotehrapy with New Agers" - abstract
Eichel, Steve, K. D., Ph.D. - profile/link
Eichel, Steve, K. D., Ph.D.: "Deprogramming: A Case Study" - abstract
Help at Any Cost - Book Review by Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
Power Games: Influence, Persuasion and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training - book review by Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP
The Cult Around the Corner - Book Review by S. K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.