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A Collective of Women: "Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups" - abstract
Anatomy of a Life Possessed - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Aslid, Flore: "On the Outside Looking In: Growing up in the Moonies" - abstract
Benjamin, Elliot, Ph.D.: "On Avatar" - AFF E-Newsletter
Benjamin, Elliot, Ph.D.: "On Conversations with God"
Betrayal of the Spirit - Nori Muster
Betz, Katherine: "No Place to Go: Life in a Prison Without Bars" - abstract
Burks, Ron: "Damaged Disciples: Casualties of Authoritarian Churches and the Shepherding Movement"
Clark, David: "Bible-Cult Mind Control 101" - abstract
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D. "How We Rescued Our Daughter"
Garden, Mary: "The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship"
Gelberg, Steven J.: "Some Things I Learned During My Seventeen Years in the Hare Krishna Movement"
Griffo, Maureen: "How Could Anyone Join a Cult"
Groenveld, Jan: "It Hurts"
Heartbreak and Rage - J. Gordon Neufeld
Huber, John Thomas II: "I Found Freedom"
Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cults - book review by Dennis Tourish, Ph.D.
Jacobson, Laurie: "My Experience in YWAM" - abstract
Kelly, Kathy: "The Making of a Disciple in the International Churches of Christ" - abstract
Knapp, Patrick: "Nothing Need Go to Waste"
Lalich, Janja: "The Cadre Ideal: origins and Development of a Political Cult" - abstract
Lilley, Cynthia: "Mother Takes-on Moon"
Lombard, Sharon: "Spotlight on Anthroposophy" - abstract
Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune - book review by Alexandra Stein
Miles, Carson: "From Counterfeit to Truth: A Personal Quest" - abstract
Mind-Forged Manacles: Cults and Spiritual Bondage - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
My Life in Orange - Book Review by Lois Kendall, Ph.D.
Orme-Collins, Donna: "Death of a Moonie: Reflections of a 'Blessed Child'"
People Who Play God - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Reimers, Adrian J.: "Charismatic Covenant Community: A Failed Promise" - abstract
Servant of the Lotus Feet: A Hare Krishna Odyssey - book review by Nori Muster
Spying in Guruland: Inside Britain’s Cults - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Stein, Alexandra: "Recovering From a Political Cult"
Take Me for a Ride - book review by Joseph Szimhart
The Mother of Godi - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
The Serpent Rising - M. Garden
The Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction - Book Review by Marybeth Ayella, Ph.D.
Toren, Erica: "Perfect Master or Perfect Psychopath"

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Book Review: Anatomy of a Life Possessed by Maria Ferrara Pema

Book Review: I Can’t Hear God Anymore

Book Review: Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult

Perfect Master or Perfect Psychopath

Some Things I learned During My Seventeen Years in the Hare Krishna Movement

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