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Mind Control

Amitrani, Alberto & Di Marzio, Raffaella: "Blind or Just Don't Want to See: Brainwashing, Mystification, and Suspicion"
Amitrani, Alberto & Di Marzio, Raffaella: "Min Control in New Religious Movements and the American Psychological Association"
Andersen, Susan M., Ph.D. & Zimbardo, Philip G., Ph.D.: "On Resisting Social Influence" - abstract
Baron, Robert: "Arousal, Capacity, and Intense Indoctrination" - abstract
Bounded Choice - Book Review by J. A. Looney, Ph.D.
Eichel, Steve K. D,. Ph.D.: "Can Scholars Be Deceived? Empirical Evidence from Social Psychology and History"
Giambalvo, Carol: "What is a Thought Reform Consultant?"
Kent, Stephen & Hall, Deana: "Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Lalich, Janja, Ph.D.: "Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven's Gate" - abstract
Langone, Michael D.: "Academic Disputes and Dialogue Collection: Preface"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Clinical Update on Cults"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults and Mind Control"
Lifton, Robert J., M.D.: "Lifton's Eight Criteria for Thought Reform"
Lifton, Robert, J. M.D.: "Cult Formation"
Lifton, Robert, J.: "Thought Reform & the Psychology of Totalism"
Martin, Paul: "Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization: A Rational/Empirical Defense of Thought Reform"
Nievod, Abraham, Ph.D., J.D.: "Undue Influence in Contract and Probate Law"
Nishida, Kimiaki, Ph.D.: "Development of the Study of Mind Control in Japan"
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D. & Singer, Margaret T., Ph.D.: Attacks on Peripheral vs. Central Elements of Self" - abstract
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D.: "Coerced Confessions: The Logic of Seemingly Irrational Action" - abstract
Ofshe, Richard, Ph.D.: "The Rabbi and the Sex Cult" - abstract
Singer, Margaret & Addis, Marsha: "Cults, Coercion, and Contumely" - abstract
Singer, Margaret T., Ph.D.: "Undue Influence and Written Documents: Psychological Aspects"
Singer, Margaret, Ph.D.: "Six Conditions for Thought Reform"
Singet Margaret, Ph.D.: "Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence"
Zablocki, Benjamin, Ph.D.: "Methodological Fallacies in Atnhony's Critiqueof Exit Cost Analysis"
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "Mind Control: Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric?"
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "What messages are behind today's cults?"

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Abduction by Parents

Analysis: Miracle, Mystery and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination

Antisocial Personality Disorder in Cult Leaders and Induction of Dependent Personality Disorder in Cult Members

APA Hears Margaret Singer on Cultism

Book Review: Bibliography on “Cults” and “Brainwashing”

Brainwashed 'guinea pig' seeks more damages

Brainwashing Defense...

Brainwashing Exists

Brainwashing/Lee Boyd Malvo: “Brainwashing” Defense Mounted

Brainwashing/Mind Control: Dr. Joyce Brothers Gives Quiz

Brainwashing: Brainwashing Defense Returns

Brainwashing: Muslim Leader Calls for Curbs on “Rogue” Preachers

Brainwashing: Slavery Trial

Campaign Against "Brainwashing"

CIA Brainwashing Program

CIA Taught "Mental Coercion"

Coercive Persuasion/Deprogramming: Unique “Cure” for Hate Crime Perpetrators Proposed

Commentary: The Case for Deprogramming Religious Cult Members

Courts: Court to Determine Whether Deprogrammers Can Be Tried

Courts: Criminal Charges Dropped in Deprogramming Case – Civil Suit Pending

COURTS: Parents Survive Cult Child’s Suit

Courts: Ward Deprogramming Suit Ruling Clarified

Cracking the Riddle of the Cults - Conway and Siegelman Address Cult Awareness Conference

Cult Membership Voluntary? “Brainwashing” a Fiction?

Decisions Support Deprogrammers, Parents

Deprogrammer Vows to Continue the "Fight"

Deprogrammer Vows to Fight Cults

Deprogrammers "Vigilantes"

Deprogramming "'Must Be Stopped, " Says Lawyer for Watchdog Group

Deprogramming and Tax Deductions

Deprogramming Becoming Unforced, Says Former Practitioner

Deprogramming Is Necessary and Liberating

Deprogramming Lawsuit

Deprogramming Trial Anticipated

Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics: Clarifying the Confusion

Development of the Study of Mind Control in Japan

Disturbing Trends in Deprogramming

Experts on "Mind Control" Day in Court

FBI "Rescue"/"Deprogramming" Guidelines

Fighting Terrorism With Terrorists

Film Star "Wages Crusade" Against Cults

Hose Pleads Guilty To Holding Kach In Home

In the Courts: Brainwashing without Physical Bonds, Scientology, 7th Day Adventist Death

In the Courts: Deprogrammer's Libel Award Is Upheld

IN THE COURTS: One Deprogrammer Convicted, Others Acquitted, C-O 10-5 1993

IN THE COURTS: Ted Patrick Exonerated

Information Disease

International: Munich Group on Deprogramming

Interview with Ted Patrick

Is Brainwashing an Unproved Hypothesis?

Jersey Conservator Bill Draws Support, Criticism: Bar Group vs.

Jersey Conservator Bill Draws Support, Criticism: Physicians Endorse

Kansas House Passes Deprogramming Bill

Kidnapped by family: Trio saving her from 'cult' charged

Lawyer Reprimanded for Deprogramming Involvement

Legislation Introduced in New York to Investigate Mind Control Methods

Legislative: States Roundup-Michigan-Anti-Deprogrammer and Pro-Conservator Bills

Lesson of a Lifetime

Letter: "People Need Protection"

Letters: Deprogrammers’ Story Told

LETTERS: Praises “Deprogrammers”

Letters: Scholars Must Not Ignore Evidence for Cult Harms

Lifton Finds Adolescents Vulnerable to Cult Recruiting

Man’s Deprogramming Not Unlawful

Methods of Prosecutor Questioned in Deprogramming Cases

Mind Control/Mental Manipulation: Letter Protests Italian Law on “Mental Manipulation”

Mind Control: “Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric?”

Mind Control: Call for APA Task Force

Miracle, Mystery, and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination

Mr. Dymally’s Resolution

Parents Charged in Attempt to Force Daughter to Change

Parents, Children and Cults: A Deprogramming Survey

Patrick Convicted in Failed Rescue Effort

Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film

Plagio-Undue Influence Addressed in Italy

Psychiatrists Discuss Appeals to Help Extricate Cultists

Psychological Association Task Force on Abuse of Persuasion Techniques

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Group Psychological Abuse Scale

Robert Lifton on Cults

Sniper Attacks: Switch from Indoctrination to Insanity Defense

Soviets Testing Mind Control

Study Denies Cult “Brainwashing”

Szimhart Kidnapping Case Defense Fund

Ted Patrick Ending Work

Ted Patrick Fined $50,000

Ted Patrick Imprisoned

Ted Patrick Involved in Recent Deprogramming

Ted Patrick’s Son Drowns

Terrorism: Chechen Suicide Bombers May Be Brainwashed

The Chilling Signs of Mind Contro’

The Chilling Signs of Mind Control

The Cult Experience: Myth and Reality

The Psychology of Torture

The Teenage Dissent of Newman and Unamuno: Conscience as a Safeguard Against Coercive Manipulation

The Way – Thought Reform and Rehab – II

Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence

Undue Influence Conference at NIH

Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven’s Gate

Worries About Deprogramming of “Christians”

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