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Information on cults, cultic groups, psychological manipulation, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, brainwashing, mind control, thought reform, abusive churches, extremism, totalistic groups, new religious movements, alternative and mainstream religions, group dynamics, exit counseling, recovery, and practical suggestions for those affected by or interested in these subjects

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Spiritual Abuse

Bhaktavatsala, Dasa: "Hare Krishna: Best Intentions: Dynamics of Spiritual Abuse"
Bussell, Harold, Rev. Dr.: "Why Evangelicals are Vulnerable to Cults"
Bussell, Harold: "Checks on Power and Authority in the New Testament"
Churches That Abuse - Book Review by M. T. Singer, Ph.D.
Churches That Abuse - Book Review by Maxine Pinson
Clark, David: "Bible-Cult Mind Control 101" - abstract
Dowhower, Richard, Rev.: "Religion Versus Cult"
Dowhower, Richard: "Cults: What Clergy Should Know"
Enroth, Ronald, Ph.D.: "Confessions of a Cult Watcher" - abstract
Enroth, Ronald, Ph.D.: Dysfunctional Churches
Garden, Mary: "The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Introduction" (to special issue on Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence)
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive?
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "What Is New Age?
Litfin, Duane: "The Perils of Persuasive Preaching"
Lorenz, Diana: "Hare Krishna: Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality"
Lucas, Phillip, Ph.D.: "Spiritual Harm in New Religions: Reflections on Interviews with Former Members" - Abstract
MacDonald, Gordon, Rev.: "Disciple Abuse" - abstract
Masis, Katherine: "Compassion Betrayed: Spiritual Abuse in an American Zen Center" - abstract
McClung, Floyd: "Authority: Its Use and Abuse, A Christian Perspective" - abstract
Mind-Forged Manacles: Cults and Spiritual Bondage - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Recovering from Churches That Abuse - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Rosedale, Herbert and Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "On Using the Term "Cult"
Spiritual Abuse resources
Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse - Book Review by Maxine Pinson
Szimhart, Joseph: "Understanding Eastern Groups"
Tydings, Judith: "Shipwrecked in the Spirit: Implications of Some Controversial Catholic Movements" - abstract
Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements"
Vere, J. Peter: "Sifting the Wheat from the Tares: 20 Signs of Trouble in a New Religious Group"

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