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A Collective of Women: "Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups" - abstract
Asser, Seth & Swan, Rita: "Child Fatalities from Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect" - abstract
Bardin, David, Esq.: "Meditation, Delusion and Deception"
Barker, Eileen, Ph.D.: "Harm and New Religious Movements" - abstract
Betz, Katherine: "No Place to Go: Life in a Prison Without Bars" - abstract
Brundage, Sandy: "Warning: Meditating May Be Hazardous to Your Health"
Burke, John, Ph.D.: "Antisocial Personality Disorder in Cult Leaders and Induction of Dependent Personality Disorder in Cult Members"
Center for Inquiry International Transnational
Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "harm and NRMs: Perspectives from Psychology" - abstract
Enroth, Ronald, Ph.D.: Dysfunctional Churches
Garden, Mary: "The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship"
Giambalvo, Carol: "Post-Cult Problems"
Goski, Patricia: "Grief, Loss, and the Former Cult Member"
Kent, Stephen & Hall, Deana: "Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Leader, David Berg" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups" - abstract
Lalich, Janja: "Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults" - abstract
Langone, Michael Ph.D.: "Cults and Violence"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults, Conversion, Science, & Harm
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Harm and NRMs: Introduction" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "How Can Cults Harm People?"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "New Religions and Public Policy"
Lucas, Phillip, Ph.D.: "Spiritual Harm in New Religions: Reflections on Interviews with Former Members" - Abstract
MacDonald, Gordon, Rev.: "Disciple Abuse" - abstract
MacDonald, Jerry: "'Reject the Wicked Man': Coercive Persuasion and Deviance Production - abstract
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"
Masis, Katherine: "Compassion Betrayed: Spiritual Abuse in an American Zen Center" - abstract
McKibben, Jodi et al.: "Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful?" - abstract
Meikle, Jessie: "Imposed Anorexia: A Model of Dietary Restriction in Four Ideological Groups" - abstract
Problems Ex-Members and Families
Reimers, Adrian J.: "Charismatic Covenant Community: A Failed Promise" - abstract
Reimers, Adrian, Ph.D.: "More than the Devil's Due" - abstract
Robbins, Thomas, Ph.D.: "Objectionable Aspects of Cults: Rhetoric and Reality"
Ryan, Patrick: "Mass Suicides Timeline"
Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM)
Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice (SRMHP)
Singer, Margaret Thaler, Ph.D.: "Post-Cult After Effects"
Swartling, Gundrun & Swartling, Per: "Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Members of Word of Life" - abstract
Szimhart, Joseph: "Understanding Eastern Groups"
Temerlin, Jane & Temerlin, Maurice, Ph.D.: "Some Hazards of the Therapeutic Relationship" - abstract
Tydings, Judith: "Shipwrecked in the Spirit: Implications of Some Controversial Catholic Movements" - abstract
When the Body is the Target - book review by Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.

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1,139 victimized by Aum Shinrikyo ask for state benefits

2009s Miss Indonesia Admits to Being Raised in 'Sex Cult'

9 ex-Alamo group members to testify

A time to go with our heads as well as our hearts

Abusers were 'dregs of society'

Academy of Dundee Ranch/Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools: “Tough-Love” Reform Schools Criticized

Academy of Dundee Ranch/Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools: “Tough-Love” Reform Schools Criticized

AFF News Vol. 1, No. 1, 1995

AFF News Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995

AFF News Vol. 2, No. 1, 1995

AFF News Vol. 2, No. 2, 1996

Alamo could use a prison consultant

Alamo defender asking to withdraw

Alamo defense asks for mercy, cites evangelist’s ‘good works’

Alamo seeks removal of religious language in suit

Alamo, 75, gets 175 years

Alamo-Member Parents Denied Again

Allen Harrod/Child Abuse: Harrod Followers Arrested

Amid a holy war

An abuse of belief

ANALYSIS-Saudi speeds up education reform, clerics resist

Anne Hamilton-Byrne/The Family: Ex-Follower Ties Drug Use to Membership

Another scandal for Legion founder Maciel

Apostates fear a resurgence of FLDS tyranny

Are we all capable of violence?

Arrest of allegedly abusive mother sparks protests

Asin’s assistant in Baba’s abode

Aspects of Recovery

At 75, Charles Manson still has power to influence others

Attorneys: CPS overruled efforts to end rights for some FLDS parents

Aum cult member's death sentence upheld over Tokyo subway gas attacks

Austrian Murder Sparks Protests in India

Ava clearly showed grave illness, pediatrician testifies

B.C. court quashes polygamy charges against controversial leaders of Bountiful

B.C. court quashes polygamy charges against controversial leaders of Bountiful

Bahais try to help others escape persecution in Iran

Baltimore archbishop calls for a review of the Legion of Christ

Battered Woman's Syndrome Applies to Men Too, Judge Finds

Behind the Yearning for Zion Gates

Being photographed, video taped is un-Islamic: TNSM chief

Benny Hinn: 'I Would Not Do This for Money'

Beyond Black and White: Recovering From a Political Cult by Alexandra Stein

Blood, money and injustice

Book Review: Lost boy's story of abuse moves from suit to book

Book Review: Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Book Review: Underground as an example of narrative sensemaking

Bountiful: home of B.C.’s secret sect

Boy chosen by Dalai Lama turns back on Buddhist order

Brazil Supreme Court: Extradite head of child abusing sect

British Make Poking Fun at Stupid Scientologists A Crime

Canadian filmmaker Haggis renounces Scientology

CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL FOR MURDERED MAN ALL ABOUT FORGIVENESS

Cascade Center for Growth: Death by Water Punishment

Catholic order aims to stem clergy shortage

Caught between Scientology and her husband, Annie Tidman chose the church

Charitable Front

Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back

Child Abuse: Child Advocacy Award

Child Abuse: Children Kept in Cells at Islamic School

Child Abuse: Claims Freedom of Religion Allows Marriage to Children

Child Abuse: Guilty Pleas in Neglect Case

Child Abuse: Religious Justification

Child bride offers to settle suit against polygamous church's land trust

Child-Custody Deal Favors Escapee of Notorious Cult 'The Family'

Children of polygamous sect to be reunited with parents

China seeks to exorcise 'evil cult' it invited in

Christian cult stole our kids, say parents

Christian Scientists seek reimbursement for prayers

Church disunity, recession worry Moon followers and operations

Church of Scientology Sues Daughters of St. Paul for Publishing Book by Catholic

Clinical and Diagnostic Issues of Cultism: Group Dependence Disorder

Commentary on Borawick v Shay--Hypnosis, Social Influence, Incestuous Child Abuse and Satanic Ritual Abuse

Converts drown during baptism

CORRY: Yoga practitioners should get out their hymnals and Vedas

Courts: 1-Year Term in Fatal Spanking

Courts: 1-Year Term in Fatal Spanking

Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work?, Singer & Lalich

Crisis of Faith

Cult boss on 14 sex charges

Cult healer ‘raped pretty followers’

Cult leader and killer Charles Manson looks less menacing in new photo

Cult leader on sex crime charges

Cult-Induced Psychopathology

CULTS, CONSPIRACIES, AND SECRET SOCIETIES

D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christ

Dad reaches out to sect child

Dangerous cults: the Assemblies of God and the Leader Newspaper Group

Death of a Moonie: Reflections of a "Blessed Child"

Death Opens Doors on Group

Death sentence affirmed in sarin attack

Death sparks calls for self-help regulation

Deaths at Sweat Lodge Bring Soul-Searching

Denver Archbishop Chaput investigating vast sex-and-money Church scandal

Destroying the World to Save It: The Awful Truth About Religion in 2009

Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

Differing accounts of Ray's behavior in sweat-lodge deaths

Doctors part of God's will, too

Dying Jehovah's Witness granted right to refuse dialysis treatment

Elior Chen interrogated in J'lem

Elizabeth Clare Prophet dies at 70; former leader of religious sect

Elizabeth Smart kidnapper shares LeBaron traits, expert says

Ending polygamy one man at a time

Exclusive: James Ray breaks silence after AZ jail release

Ex-follower of Alamos looks back

Expert paid $500,000 for report on Elizabeth Smart kidnapper

Faith healing or inhuman sacrifice?

Falun Gong Wages War of Words with China

Falun Gong: Claim Dissidents Abused in Psychiatric Clinics

Father cannot introduce new evidence in Bethany Hughes case, court rules

Father loses access to his Brethren children

FLDS appeals trust rulings to Utah Supreme Court

FLDS leader Jeffs starving himself, jail authorities say

FLDS leader's life on the run is detailed in his dictations

FLDS man to be sentenced for sexual assault

FLDS Member, Ex-Cop Sues Over Job Loss

FLDS Member, Ex-Cop Sues Over Job Loss

FLDS: Did secret deal leave former polygamous sect members out?

For these 'spiritual warriors,' the casualties were real

Force-feeding ends as jailed polygamous leader Jeffs resumes eating

Former cult abductee graduates

Former KKK, now Christ's crusader

Former Oregon juvenile officer faces ethics fine

Former pastor charged with child rape

Former plural wife discusses religious teachings in Texas FLDS trial

Four days after patient’s death, no FIR against Ayurvedic doctor

Fr. Berg leaves Legion of Christ to join Archdiocese of New York

Girl 'married' at 8 says sex started in 3rd grade

God and the Recession

God’s Creation Outreach Ministry: Mother Pleads Guilty in Death of Son

Going home, 1970s terror gang activist paroled after just 7 years

Growing hate groups blame Obama, economy

Harm and NRMs: Perspectives from Psychology

Harm and NRMs: Perspectives from Religious Studies, Sociology, and Psychology - Introduction

Hearing Postponed For Woman Linked To Texas Raid

Help available to former followers, those wishing to leave ministry

Helping others avoid cultists

House of Prayer ‘mistreated OAP’

House of Prayer: Leader Arrested

How Scientology got to Bob Minton

How wicked cool stuff works: Hypnosis

Hundreds of Irish Catholic priests 'to be implicated in child abuse report'

I am Annoyed and Disappointed

Indian police turn to terrorist rehabilitation

Individual Differences Affecting Recovery

Indonesian 'sex cult' leader jailed: report

Information Disease

Information for people considering studying under Wayne Geis can make an informed decision.

Intimidating and violent: defector

Iranian Raelian leader blackmailed by Iranian government

Ireland braces itself for another report on clerical child abuse

Ireland's Christian Brothers in U-turn on compensation

Irishman wants to kill for Islam

Its 'Mother' dead, doomsday sect's future in doubt

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Story of “Shunning”

Jonestown Revisited: Evolving play looks at how Modestan turned to cult, suicide

Judge Orders $500K for Each of Preacher's Victims

Judge upholds taking of Alamo church kids

Judge: Sever Alamo ties to regain children

Just a sect, Exclusive Brethren is not above the law

Keeper of Lighthouse cult cried wolf too often

Kitsap Co. pastor pleads guilty to child rape

Kitsap pastor pleads guilty to raping girls in congregation

Krishna Children Found Dead in Refrigerator – Activist Comments

Last child in TX raid freed from foster care

Law enforcement recordings in Jeffs case to be kept secret

Law professor discusses controversial medical neglect case

Lawsuit calls yoga chain a cult

Leaked video of Alamo ministry child on Internet

Legionaries' future in the balance

Lia Eden sentenced to prison, again

Maine woman avoids prison in killing of white supremacist husband after years of abuse

Malnutrition in Cults – II

Manson cult member dies in jail from cancer

Many Women Targeted by Faith Leaders, Survey Says

Many Women Targeted by Faith Leaders, Survey Says

Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon

Mennonite abuse survivor speaks out against church

Metroland sued for $65 million

Mexican court orders Bolivian preacher kept in jail pending investigation into plane hijacking

Michigan Raid Reveals a Mysterious Islamic Sect

Minister 'killed to silence wife'

Miss Indonesia's links to religious cult

Mother, community search for answers in death of two girls

Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult

New Life Tabernacle: Ariel Ben Sherman Accused of Child Abuse

New moons are rising

New site eyed for building in Colorado City

Nigerian Troops Storm Sect Compound

No Place to Go: Life in a Prison without Bars

No sects please, we’re French

North Bay Spiritual Guru Sentenced In Beating

Nuwaubians: Leader Sued for Alleged Child Abuse

Nuwaubians: Nuwaubian Leader Held on Child Sexual Abuse Charges

NZ mother 'drowned' during Maori exorcism

OKC Bombing & Waco Anniversaries Sunday

One Woman's Account of Abuse Leads to Rape Charges for SK Pastor

Onward Christian Zionists

Oprah and the Sweat Lodge Guru

Order in Tubac prepares for apocalypse

Order of St. Charbel: “Pope”-To-Be Charged with Sex Offenses

Order of St. Charbel: “Pope”-To-Be Charged with Sex Offenses

Orthodox end silence on sex abuse

Paraguayan bishops blast Opus Dei colleague, deny cover-up

Pastor accused of child rape ruled with an iron hand

Pastor guilty of child abuse

Pitfalls To Recovery by Dr. Paul Martin

Police report gives first details of Arizona sweat lodge deaths

Politicians unite against forced teenage weddings

Polygamy harms the women and children involved, say opponents

Pope must act now to stop Legionaries of Christ 'train wreck' going off the cliff

Portos: Commune Leaders Sentenced on Firearms and Whipping charges

Prayer mom falls ill at trial

Problem Solving: An Approach for the Cult-Impacted Family, Dr. Sandy Andron

Prophet Without Honor

Protesters offer different opinions on FLDS trial

Psychiatrists cannot undo Taliban brainwashing

Psychological Abuse

Psychological Abuse Scale

Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment in Children and Adolescents

Psychotherapy With Ex-Cultists: Four Case Studies and Commentary

Reasons for Leaving: Psychological Abuse and Distress Reported by Former Members of Cultic Groups

Recent high-profile defectors

Religions Rooted In Delusions

Report: Another Death as Result of James Ray Healing Exercise

Roland Joffé's new film Mission: to uncover secrets of the Opus Dei

Saakashvili Weighs in on Jehovah’s Witness Baby Treatment Case

Safety Net gets new roadmap for helping youth

Saudis Go From Jihad to Rehab

Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups: A Partial Model

Scientology: Religious sect, or money-making cult?

Sect evacuates former resort in Spring Glen

Sect leader indicted for child abuse

Self-Help Doesn't Help—And Often Hurts

Settlement expected in killing at Maharishi school

Sex Cult Leader on Trial for Blasphemy

Shooter In Pittsburgh Cop Killings Held Strongly Anti-Semitic And Racist Beliefs

SIFF: Children of the Revolution: Two New Docs Wrestle With the Old Hippie Idealism

SK Pastor in Custody; Five Make Sex Abuse Allegations

Sleep Deprivation

Somatization: social control and illness production in a religious cult

Some Sacramento-area faithful turn backs on pastors, 'spiritual abuse'

Spinka rabbi sentenced for tax fraud

Spiritual Harm in New Religions: Reflections on Interviews with Former Members of NRMs

Strength in their numbers

Study Reveals Cultic Group’s Abuses: Boston Church of Christ/International Churches of Christ Movement

Sweat lodge deaths cast negative spotlight on guru

Sweatbox victims were attending 'Spiritual Warrior' program

Symposium: Islamic Terror and Sexual Mutilation

Talk of 'celestial wives,' long-term effects of assault

That Girl: The Captivity and Restoration of Patty Hearst

The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

The Big Question: What is the Unification Church, and do its practices have a future?

The Cult Experience and Its Effects

The Cult That Wants My Kids

The Family (Winifred Wright): “Brainwashing” Alleged

The Family: Guilty of Child Endangerment

The knock at the door that turned my parents into brainwashed fanatics - and nearly cost my life

The man who never was

The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment

The Psychological Consequences Of Being Raised In And Leaving High Demand Groups: The Case Of The Exclusive Brethren

The Role of the Family

The Terrorist Mind: An Update

The truth rundown

They don’t want to leave a trace of anything Baha’i

Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church

Transformation sessions claim high cost

Trial delayed for Swinton

Trial of accused cult members delayed again

Turkish Blasphemy Trial Begins Against French-Turkish Author

Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Twelve Tribes wants to buy buildings, create square

Two members in Alamo case released from jail

Two More Victims Come Forward as SK Pastor Appears on Sex Charges

Unmasked blogger blames First Baptist, Sheriff's Office

Up from Secularism

Vatican investigates Legionaries of Christ

Was Nancy Garrido a victim or accomplice?

We Own Her Now by Janja Laich

We Weren't Crazy: We Were Fooled by Michael D. Langone, Ph. D.

White supremacist set to be executed for 1994 murder

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

Why We Need to Be Spiritual Consumers by Rosanne Henry and Sharon Colvin

Will followers still obey evangelist from prison?

Winifred Wright/Child Abuse: Judge Allows Bail for “Deprogramming” Time

Winifred Wright/Child Abuse: Prison Term for Starvation Death

Witness: Accused cult leaders had her committed to keep quiet

Witness: Alamo described sex abuse

Witnesses talk of Mitchell's religion, past during competency hearing

Woman incorrectly IDs pastor at sex-crimes trial

Woman 'married' to pastor at age 8 to retake stand

Word of Faith Fellowship: Abuse Detailed

Year after Alamo raid, questions remain

Yoga Group Accused Of Coercion, Sex Assault

York's sect at it again

Zen master's followers allege Vietnam persecution

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