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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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American Psychiatric Association: "Statement on Repressed Memories of Abuse"
Conference 2005 Madrid: "Coping With Triggers"
Coping with Cult Involvement: A Handbook for Families and Friends - book review by Doni Whitsett, Ph.D.
Crawley, Kevin et al.: "Reintegration of Exiting Cult Members with Their Families" - abstract
Dahlen, Penny, Ed.D.: "Working with Women Survivors of Cults" - abstract
Eichel, Steve K. D. et al.: "Mental Health Interventions in Cult-Related Cases" - abstract
Eichel, Steve K.D. & Dubrow-Marshalll, Linda: "Trouble in Paradise: Some Observations on Psychotehrapy with New Agers" - abstract
Giambalvo, Carol: "Coping with Triggers and PTSD Symptoms"
Giambalvo, Carol: "Coping with Triggers"
Giambalvo, Carol: "Exit Counseling"
Giambalvo, Carol: "From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation"
Giambalvo, Carol: "Post-Cult Problems"
Giambalvo, Carol: "What is a Thought Reform Consultant?"
Goldberg, Lorna & Goldberg, William: "Psychotherapy with Ex-Cultists: Four Case Studies and Commentary" - abstract
Goldberg, Lorna, MSW: "Reflections on Marriage and Children after the Cult" - abstract
Goldberg, Lorna: "A Psychoanalytic Look at Recovered Memories, Therapists, Cult Leaders, and Undue Influence" - abstract
Hassan, Steven: "The Strategic Interaction Approach"
Henry, Rosanne: "Anxiety and Decision-Making"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D. & Nieburg, Herbert, Ph.D.: "Treatment of Satanism"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Letter to a Former Member of a Meditation Group"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Clinical Update on Cults"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Innter Experience and Conversion" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "We weren't Crazy; We were Fooled"
Lorenz, Diana: "Hare Krishna: Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality"
Martin, Paul, Ph.D. et al.: "Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI Before and After Treatment" - abstract
Martin, Paul, Ph.D.: "Pitfalls To Recovery"
Martin, Paul, Ph.D.: "Study Indicates Rehab’s Benefits"
Moyers, James: "Psychological Issues of Former Fundamentalists" - abstract
Perlado, Miguel: "Clinical and Diagnostic Issues of Cultism: Group Dependence Disorder" - abstrat
Perlado, Miguel: "Second Thoughts on Cultic Involvement and Addictive Relationships" - abstract
Problems Ex-Members and Families
Recovery from Abusive Groups - Book Review by Lee Anne Pellegrini, M.S.W.
Recovery From Cults - Book Review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
Religion and Psychology - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Rosen, Shelly: "Gender Attributes that Affect Women's Attraction to and Involvement in Cults" - abstract
Shaw, Daniel: "Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective" - abstract
Shields, Leland & Carter, F. Jeri: "Healing from Experiences with Unhealthy Spiritual Groups and Treatments" - abstract
Singer, Margaret Thaler, Ph.D.: "Post-Cult After Effects"
Singer, Margaret, Ph.D.: "Crazy" Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work?"
Singer, Margaret, Ph.D.: "How United States Marine Corps Differ from Cults"
Singer, Margaret: "Coming Out of the Cults"
Singet Margaret, Ph.D.: "Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence"
Solomon, Anita, Ph.D.: "Psychotherapy of a Casualty from a Mass Therapy Encounter Group: A Case Study" - abstract
Temerlin, Jane & Temerlin, Maurice, Ph.D.: "Some Hazards of the Therapeutic Relationship" - abstract
Tobias, Madeleine: "The Role of Cognitive Distortion"
Ward, David: "Domestic Violence as a Cultic System" - abstract
Weishaupt, Kaynor & Stensland, Michael: "Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah's Witness Women" - abstract
West, Louis J. & Martin, P.: "Pseudo-identity and the Treatment of Personality Change in Victims of Captivity and Cults" - abstract
Winocur, Nadine et al.: "The Individual Cult Experience Index" - abstract

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Counseling and Involvements in New Religious Groups

Cult Membership Voluntary? “Brainwashing” a Fiction?

Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming

Implanting False Memories of “Possession”

Kidnapping Indictments

Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults

Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

Manipulative Therapists

Psychoanalysis and Cult Affiliation: Clinical Perspectives

Psychotherapy With Ex-Cultists: Four Case Studies and Commentary

Recovered Memory Psychiatrist Disciplined

Rehab Center Expands

Ritualistic Abuse of Children--Dynamics and Impact

The Making of a Disciple in the International Churches of Christ

The Strategic Interaction Approach

Three Elements of Cult Counseling

Three Modes of Counseling – Part II: The Family

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