Stressing the capacity of powerful cults to harm members and cause a variety of post-cult problems, including depression, dissociative disturbances and dependency, this book provides background information and practical guidelines to enable mental health professionals to help former cult members.
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An Absolute Must For All Who Are Affected By Cults,
This review is from: Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (Paperback)
This was one of the first books I read after 9 years in a cult, too bad I read it more than a year and a half after I quit (I wish I would`ve found this earlier, right after I left the group I was in). I recommend this to all ex-members of cults, as well as anyone interested in or affected by them; and ESPECIALLY anyone in any group (religious or otherwise) who questions the nature of your group, and has thoughts of leaving. This book is informative, affirmative, and great support for ex-members and their families when you feel like no one else understands what you`ve been through.
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This booked helped me to leave Alcoholics Anonymous,
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This review is from: Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book with plenty of information to help the person leaving a high-control group or cult. The stages of recovery are discussed so the exiting member knows what kind of "head trips" to expect during the mental detox of cult involvement. I highly recommend it.
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I am in the middle of this book right now. It is mostly about the kind of cults that kid nap people or that convince them to leave home. Like the Moonies and the T.M. and many others. If you are looking for a book about the cult next door this might not be the book for you. There is NO mention of Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses or Christian Scientist. However, as a recovering Mormon I still found a lot of information that I could relate to. The author really does know what it feels like for someone to leave a cult or a controlled environment. He points out the confusion of thinking to your self "Am I a victim of this cult or am I an agent of the Devil because I left?" I can relate to this book. But it is a really heavy read. This book is worth reading.
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THE WORK ON WHICH THIS BOOK IS BASED has its roots in the early 1970s, when parents of young adults who had joined cultic groups began to speak up about alarming changes they had observed in their children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
former cultists, exit counselor, totalistic groups, exit counseling, cult departure, cult observer, prospective counselee, cultists need, former cult members, cultic involvement, ritually abused children, cult affiliation, cultic groups, cult involvement, ritualistic abuse, cult experience, psychotherapy cults, cultic experience, cult mind control, cult conversion, cult environment, leaving cults, love bombing, cult phenomenon, cult victims Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cultic Studies Journal, Unification Church, San Francisco, Doreen Baxter, American Family Foundation, Cult Awareness Network, Stage Two, United States, Transcendental Meditation, End Time, Jim Jones, People's Temple, Los Angeles, Aleister Crowley, Central Committee, Child Behavior Checklist, First Amendment, Hare Krishna, Park Street Press, Psychiatric Annals, Reverend Moon, American Journal of Psychiatry, House of Judah, Stage Three New!
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THE WORK ON WHICH THIS BOOK IS BASED has its roots in the early 1970s, when parents of young adults who had joined cultic groups began to speak up about alarming changes they had observed in their children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
former cultists, exit counselor, totalistic groups, exit counseling, cult departure, cult observer, prospective counselee, cultists need, former cult members, cultic involvement, ritually abused children, cult affiliation, cultic groups, cult involvement, ritualistic abuse, cult experience, psychotherapy cults, cultic experience, cult mind control, cult conversion, cult environment, leaving cults, love bombing, cult phenomenon, cult victims Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cultic Studies Journal, Unification Church, San Francisco, Doreen Baxter, American Family Foundation, Cult Awareness Network, Stage Two, United States, Transcendental Meditation, End Time, Jim Jones, People's Temple, Los Angeles, Aleister Crowley, Central Committee, Child Behavior Checklist, First Amendment, Hare Krishna, Park Street Press, Psychiatric Annals, Reverend Moon, American Journal of Psychiatry, House of Judah, Stage Three New!
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- The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor Lavey on page 358, page 359, and page 360
- Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults by Steven Hassan on page 148, and page 237
- Child Abuse Pb by P. Johnson on page 341, and page 354
- Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare by David G. Bromley on page 32, and page 46
- Turning East by Harvey Cox on page 45
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- The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements (Religion in the Age of Transformation) by David G. Bromley on 4 pages
- Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja A. Lalich in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace by Margaret Thaler Singer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold by Robert V. Levine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold by Robert V. Levine in Back Matter
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