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1979–2019: The Changing Population of ICSA
2012 Paul R. Martin Lecture - Thought Reform
2013 Conference Awards at ICSA Annual International Conference
A 30-year Odyssey.doc
A Comparison of Different Countries' Approaches
A Few Things I've Learned
A Personal Experience of TM
A Psychosocial Analysis of the Terrorist Group
A Recovery-from-Addictions Model
A Remarkable Consensus
A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community
A Workshop for People Born or Raised in Cultic Groups
Abstract Surrealism—My Journey Back to Myself After ISKCON
Abuso Psicológico en Grupos: Taxonomía y Severidad de sus Componentes
Academic Disputes and Dialogue
AFF Statement on China and Falun Gong
An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form?
An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group
An Open Letter to Clergy
Anxiety and Decision-Making
Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful
Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive
Arts A 30-Year Odyssey
Aspects of Alternative Spirituality
Aspects of Concern Regarding Legion of Christ
Assessment of Psychological Abuse
Attacks on Peripheral vs Central Elements of Self
Austrian Perspectives on Cults
Back From the Brink
Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion
Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
Born Into a Doomsday Cult
Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups
Boston Church of Christ Movement
Boston Church of Christ Movement Abridged
Building Resistance - Tactics for Counteracting Manipulation and Unethical Hypnosis
Business and the New Age Movement
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them - Case of the Legion
Challenging Authority
Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement
Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups
Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups
Checks on Power and Authority
Child Custody and Cults
Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect
Children and Cults
Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
Choosing A Church
Cleansing Ritual
Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members
Clinical Update on Cults
Closed Cults Open Conferences
Clubs, Neotribal Enclaves and Cults: Variations on the Theme of Organizing Members
Coerced Confessions
Cold Reading
Coming Back Home
Coming out of the Cults
Common Myths and Misconceptions About Cults and Cultic Groups
Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
Coping with Triggers
Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach
Crazy Wisdom
Creativity and Cults
Cult A Love Story
Cult Formation
Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents
Cult Is As Cult Does
Cultic Dimensions London Bombings
Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom
Cultism and American Culture
Cults A Natural Disaster
Cults and Globalization
Cults and Sex Trafficking
Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis
Cults in Court
Cults What Clergy Should Know
Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society
Cults, Religion, and China
Culture Shock - The Challenge of Building or Rebuilding a Life
Curiosity and Willingness to Learn
Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women & Children
Dallas Former Member Support Group
Deception in Transcendental Meditation
Deception, Dependency, and Dread
Deprogramming Survey
Desperate People Do Desperate Things
Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
Dialogue and Cultic Studies
Diana, Leaving the Cult
Divergent European Cult Policies
Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
Dreams of ISKCON
Dysfunctional Churches
Editor’s Corner
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
Ethics of Evangelism
European Muslims
Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
Fair Game
Families Helping Families
Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
Family Life In and Out of a Cult
Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
Finding and Losing My Religion
For Families Who Suspect That a Loved One May Be Involved With a High-Demand Group (Cult)
Former Members and Health-Care Reform
Forty Years in the Wilderness
Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
Free Speech Survey Report
Freemen Soverign Citizens
From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
From Deprogramming to Deradicalization
From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation
From Survivor to Thriver
From the Fire to a Blessing Field
Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON
Getting Involved in a Cult
Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
Governments and Cults
Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
History and Purpose of Model Presentations
History of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem
How a Dysfunctional Family Functions Like a Cult
How Can Faith Communities Help Survivors of Spiritual Abuse?
How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults
How Could Anyone Join a Cult
How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
How to Find Information on a Group
How We Rescued Our Daughter
How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
If You Want To Know How I Got Brainwashed
Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
Influence
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
Interacting with Cults: Police
Introduction to the Monograph
Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
Jones on Jesus
Large Group Awareness Trainings
Leaving a Cult for Music
Legal Considerations
Les rapports d’inspection des écoles privées
Lessons From Adjacent Fields Cults and Radical Extremist Groups
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency
Lets Get Lost
Letter to a Former Member
Life After Centrepoint
Litigating Against Cults in Japan Practical Issues
Lost Love
Manipulative Therapists
Marriage After the Cult
Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
Moving On: Dealing With Family Members Who Have Caused Us Harm
My Perspective of Rosanne Henry and Leona Furnari's Presentation to the Annual SGA Workshop
My Unexpected Journey
My Voice
Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership
New Books on Polygamy
New Religions and Public Policy
On Breaking the Code of Silence
On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
On Using the Term "Cult"
Origins and Prevention of Abuse
Overview: Support Groups
Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
Pathological Psychoanalysis
Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
Peace at Last
Physical Child Abuse in Sects
Pink Slip!
Pitfalls to Recovery
Points for Pastors
Post-Cult After Effects
Post-Cult Financial Recovery
Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
Prevalence
Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
Problem Solving An Approach
Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
Psychologists Survey
Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
Raised in Cultic Groups
Reading List: Undue Influence 101
Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
Reasons for Leaving
Rebuilding the Jigsaw
Reclaiming Life Stories
Recovery: From Victim to Survivor to Thriver
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Reflection on the Life of Daphne (Lady) Vane
Reject the Wicked Man
Religion et Secte
Religion Versus Cult
Religion, Revisionists, and Revolutionary Suicide
Religious Cults, Human Rights, and Public Policy: The Secular Perspective
Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse Statutes
Religious Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
Reply to Dr Robbins
Report of the Task Force
Report of the Task Force Summary
Research on Destructive Cults
Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
Responding to Jihadism
Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
Saved by Our Son
Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
Sister My Sister
Six Conditions
Social Influences on Youth
Some Things I Learned
Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments
Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality
Stairway to Heaven
State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor
Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
Supporting Human Rights
Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey
Survey Physicians
Survivor Nineninethree
Teaching Young People
Ten Steps to Critical Thinking
The ABCs of Dangerous Cults
The Art of Hoping - Anonymous
The Challenge of Defining Cult
The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult
The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment
The Genesis, Text, and Implications of Utah House Bill 214: Office for Vict
The Gentle Wind Project
The Grammatical Fiction
The Heart of Cult Recovery: Compassion for the Self
The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members
The Identity of Cult Members in the Narrative Aspect
The Impact of a Modern-Day Polygamy Group on Women
The Influence Continuum
The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation
The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective
The Marriage of the Lamb
The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
The Role of Cognitive Distortion
The Role of the Family
The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
The Strategic Interaction Approach
The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control
The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx
The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements
Thought Reform Exists
Thought Reform Programs
Too Good to be True Teacher
Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva
Traumatic Abuse in Cults
Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Treatment of Satanism
Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo
Understanding Eastern Groups
Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions
Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse
Vulnerability
Weaponizing Therapy
We Disagree—Let’s Talk! Why Diversity and Dialogue Are Necessary, and How W
We Weren't Crazy
What Changed My Mind
What Counselors Should Know About Cultic Dynamics
What Do We Need to Know About Being Born or Raised in a Cultic Environment?
What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member
What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member’s Family
What Is a Cult
What Is a Cult Definitional Preface
What is Hypnosis
What is New Age
What Is Real? The Lure and Perils of Hidden Wisdom
What Is the Impact of Leaving a Cultic Group
What Messages Behind Cults
When Critical Thinking Doesn't Help Why It Fails and How to Make It Happen
When Endings Are Beginnings David’s Story
When the Cult Leader Hoists a Whilte Flag
When You're Asked About Cults
Why Cults Are Harmful Neurobiological Speculations
Why Did I Endure
Why I Had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult
Why We Need To Become Spiritual Consumers
Wild Geese
Working with Cult-affected Families
Writing Betrayal of the Spirit
You Do Not Have to Be a Fool to Be Fooled
Zealotry and American Identity
Zen and the Art of Student Abuse
Zen and the Art of Winning in Court
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Joan Capellini Scholarship Fund
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Index of ICSA Articles
Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Families
Abstracts
Wounded Faith
If I Could Turn Back Time
ICSA Programs
ICSA Reviews
ICSA Arts
SAR
Starting Out in Mainstream America
Mental Health
Spiritual Abuse
Religion Showcase
Preventive Education
Research
Graduate Study
Cult Info Since 1979
Home
About Us
Annual Program Reports
Contact ICSA
Press
Events
Annual International Conference
How can we help you?
Former Members
Families and Friends
Researchers
Mental Health
Others
Support Groups
Counseling Resources
Resources
Online Library
Topic Collections
Articles
1979–2019: The Changing Population of ICSA
2012 Paul R. Martin Lecture - Thought Reform
2013 Conference Awards at ICSA Annual International Conference
A 30-year Odyssey.doc
A Comparison of Different Countries' Approaches
A Few Things I've Learned
A Personal Experience of TM
A Psychosocial Analysis of the Terrorist Group
A Recovery-from-Addictions Model
A Remarkable Consensus
A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community
A Workshop for People Born or Raised in Cultic Groups
Abstract Surrealism—My Journey Back to Myself After ISKCON
Abuso Psicológico en Grupos: Taxonomía y Severidad de sus Componentes
Academic Disputes and Dialogue
AFF Statement on China and Falun Gong
An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form?
An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group
An Open Letter to Clergy
Anxiety and Decision-Making
Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful
Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive
Arts A 30-Year Odyssey
Aspects of Alternative Spirituality
Aspects of Concern Regarding Legion of Christ
Assessment of Psychological Abuse
Attacks on Peripheral vs Central Elements of Self
Austrian Perspectives on Cults
Back From the Brink
Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion
Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
Born Into a Doomsday Cult
Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups
Boston Church of Christ Movement
Boston Church of Christ Movement Abridged
Building Resistance - Tactics for Counteracting Manipulation and Unethical Hypnosis
Business and the New Age Movement
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them - Case of the Legion
Challenging Authority
Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement
Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups
Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups
Checks on Power and Authority
Child Custody and Cults
Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect
Children and Cults
Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
Choosing A Church
Cleansing Ritual
Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members
Clinical Update on Cults
Closed Cults Open Conferences
Clubs, Neotribal Enclaves and Cults: Variations on the Theme of Organizing Members
Coerced Confessions
Cold Reading
Coming Back Home
Coming out of the Cults
Common Myths and Misconceptions About Cults and Cultic Groups
Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
Coping with Triggers
Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach
Crazy Wisdom
Creativity and Cults
Cult A Love Story
Cult Formation
Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents
Cult Is As Cult Does
Cultic Dimensions London Bombings
Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom
Cultism and American Culture
Cults A Natural Disaster
Cults and Globalization
Cults and Sex Trafficking
Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis
Cults in Court
Cults What Clergy Should Know
Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society
Cults, Religion, and China
Culture Shock - The Challenge of Building or Rebuilding a Life
Curiosity and Willingness to Learn
Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women & Children
Dallas Former Member Support Group
Deception in Transcendental Meditation
Deception, Dependency, and Dread
Deprogramming Survey
Desperate People Do Desperate Things
Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
Dialogue and Cultic Studies
Diana, Leaving the Cult
Divergent European Cult Policies
Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
Dreams of ISKCON
Dysfunctional Churches
Editor’s Corner
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
Ethics of Evangelism
European Muslims
Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
Fair Game
Families Helping Families
Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
Family Life In and Out of a Cult
Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
Finding and Losing My Religion
For Families Who Suspect That a Loved One May Be Involved With a High-Demand Group (Cult)
Former Members and Health-Care Reform
Forty Years in the Wilderness
Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
Free Speech Survey Report
Freemen Soverign Citizens
From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
From Deprogramming to Deradicalization
From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation
From Survivor to Thriver
From the Fire to a Blessing Field
Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON
Getting Involved in a Cult
Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
Governments and Cults
Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
History and Purpose of Model Presentations
History of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem
How a Dysfunctional Family Functions Like a Cult
How Can Faith Communities Help Survivors of Spiritual Abuse?
How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults
How Could Anyone Join a Cult
How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
How to Find Information on a Group
How We Rescued Our Daughter
How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
If You Want To Know How I Got Brainwashed
Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
Influence
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
Interacting with Cults: Police
Introduction to the Monograph
Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
Jones on Jesus
Large Group Awareness Trainings
Leaving a Cult for Music
Legal Considerations
Les rapports d’inspection des écoles privées
Lessons From Adjacent Fields Cults and Radical Extremist Groups
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency
Lets Get Lost
Letter to a Former Member
Life After Centrepoint
Litigating Against Cults in Japan Practical Issues
Lost Love
Manipulative Therapists
Marriage After the Cult
Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
Moving On: Dealing With Family Members Who Have Caused Us Harm
My Perspective of Rosanne Henry and Leona Furnari's Presentation to the Annual SGA Workshop
My Unexpected Journey
My Voice
Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership
New Books on Polygamy
New Religions and Public Policy
On Breaking the Code of Silence
On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
On Using the Term "Cult"
Origins and Prevention of Abuse
Overview: Support Groups
Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
Pathological Psychoanalysis
Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
Peace at Last
Physical Child Abuse in Sects
Pink Slip!
Pitfalls to Recovery
Points for Pastors
Post-Cult After Effects
Post-Cult Financial Recovery
Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
Prevalence
Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
Problem Solving An Approach
Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
Psychologists Survey
Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
Raised in Cultic Groups
Reading List: Undue Influence 101
Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
Reasons for Leaving
Rebuilding the Jigsaw
Reclaiming Life Stories
Recovery: From Victim to Survivor to Thriver
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Reflection on the Life of Daphne (Lady) Vane
Reject the Wicked Man
Religion et Secte
Religion Versus Cult
Religion, Revisionists, and Revolutionary Suicide
Religious Cults, Human Rights, and Public Policy: The Secular Perspective
Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse Statutes
Religious Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
Reply to Dr Robbins
Report of the Task Force
Report of the Task Force Summary
Research on Destructive Cults
Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
Responding to Jihadism
Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
Saved by Our Son
Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
Sister My Sister
Six Conditions
Social Influences on Youth
Some Things I Learned
Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments
Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality
Stairway to Heaven
State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor
Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
Supporting Human Rights
Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey
Survey Physicians
Survivor Nineninethree
Teaching Young People
Ten Steps to Critical Thinking
The ABCs of Dangerous Cults
The Art of Hoping - Anonymous
The Challenge of Defining Cult
The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult
The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment
The Genesis, Text, and Implications of Utah House Bill 214: Office for Vict
The Gentle Wind Project
The Grammatical Fiction
The Heart of Cult Recovery: Compassion for the Self
The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members
The Identity of Cult Members in the Narrative Aspect
The Impact of a Modern-Day Polygamy Group on Women
The Influence Continuum
The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation
The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective
The Marriage of the Lamb
The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
The Role of Cognitive Distortion
The Role of the Family
The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
The Strategic Interaction Approach
The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control
The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx
The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements
Thought Reform Exists
Thought Reform Programs
Too Good to be True Teacher
Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva
Traumatic Abuse in Cults
Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Treatment of Satanism
Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo
Understanding Eastern Groups
Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions
Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse
Vulnerability
Weaponizing Therapy
We Disagree—Let’s Talk! Why Diversity and Dialogue Are Necessary, and How W
We Weren't Crazy
What Changed My Mind
What Counselors Should Know About Cultic Dynamics
What Do We Need to Know About Being Born or Raised in a Cultic Environment?
What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member
What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member’s Family
What Is a Cult
What Is a Cult Definitional Preface
What is Hypnosis
What is New Age
What Is Real? The Lure and Perils of Hidden Wisdom
What Is the Impact of Leaving a Cultic Group
What Messages Behind Cults
When Critical Thinking Doesn't Help Why It Fails and How to Make It Happen
When Endings Are Beginnings David’s Story
When the Cult Leader Hoists a Whilte Flag
When You're Asked About Cults
Why Cults Are Harmful Neurobiological Speculations
Why Did I Endure
Why I Had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult
Why We Need To Become Spiritual Consumers
Wild Geese
Working with Cult-affected Families
Writing Betrayal of the Spirit
You Do Not Have to Be a Fool to Be Fooled
Zealotry and American Identity
Zen and the Art of Student Abuse
Zen and the Art of Winning in Court
Groups
Joan Capellini Scholarship Fund
Helpful Organizations and Services
Books
Free e-Books
ICSA Bookstore
Videos
Video Resources
Study Guides / Assistance Collections
FAQs
Membership/Donations
Volunteer
Get Involved
ICSA Publications
ICSA Today
Author Guidelines
Issues
IJCAM
IJCS
Issues
Clinical Bibliography
Index of ICSA Articles
Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Families
Abstracts
Wounded Faith
If I Could Turn Back Time
ICSA Programs
ICSA Reviews
ICSA Arts
SAR
Starting Out in Mainstream America
Mental Health
Spiritual Abuse
Religion Showcase
Preventive Education
Research
Graduate Study
More
Home
About Us
Annual Program Reports
Contact ICSA
Press
Events
Annual International Conference
How can we help you?
Former Members
Families and Friends
Researchers
Mental Health
Others
Support Groups
Counseling Resources
Resources
Online Library
Topic Collections
Articles
1979–2019: The Changing Population of ICSA
2012 Paul R. Martin Lecture - Thought Reform
2013 Conference Awards at ICSA Annual International Conference
A 30-year Odyssey.doc
A Comparison of Different Countries' Approaches
A Few Things I've Learned
A Personal Experience of TM
A Psychosocial Analysis of the Terrorist Group
A Recovery-from-Addictions Model
A Remarkable Consensus
A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community
A Workshop for People Born or Raised in Cultic Groups
Abstract Surrealism—My Journey Back to Myself After ISKCON
Abuso Psicológico en Grupos: Taxonomía y Severidad de sus Componentes
Academic Disputes and Dialogue
AFF Statement on China and Falun Gong
An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form?
An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group
An Open Letter to Clergy
Anxiety and Decision-Making
Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful
Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive
Arts A 30-Year Odyssey
Aspects of Alternative Spirituality
Aspects of Concern Regarding Legion of Christ
Assessment of Psychological Abuse
Attacks on Peripheral vs Central Elements of Self
Austrian Perspectives on Cults
Back From the Brink
Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ
Bishop Farrell Differences of Opinion
Born and Raised in Aesthetic Realism
Born Into a Doomsday Cult
Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups
Boston Church of Christ Movement
Boston Church of Christ Movement Abridged
Building Resistance - Tactics for Counteracting Manipulation and Unethical Hypnosis
Business and the New Age Movement
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them - Case of the Legion
Challenging Authority
Changes in the North American Cult Awareness Movement
Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups
Characteristics of Cults and Cultic Groups
Checks on Power and Authority
Child Custody and Cults
Child Fatalitites From Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect
Children and Cults
Children and Cults: A Practical Guide
Choosing A Church
Cleansing Ritual
Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members
Clinical Update on Cults
Closed Cults Open Conferences
Clubs, Neotribal Enclaves and Cults: Variations on the Theme of Organizing Members
Coerced Confessions
Cold Reading
Coming Back Home
Coming out of the Cults
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Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions
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Counseling Former Cultists: The Brief Intermittent Developmental Therapy (BIDT) Approach
Crazy Wisdom
Creativity and Cults
Cult A Love Story
Cult Formation
Cult Involvement Suggestions for Concerned Parents
Cult Is As Cult Does
Cultic Dimensions London Bombings
Cultic Issues and Religious Freedom
Cultism and American Culture
Cults A Natural Disaster
Cults and Globalization
Cults and Sex Trafficking
Cults in American Society A Legal Analysis
Cults in Court
Cults What Clergy Should Know
Cults, Psychological Manipulation, & Society
Cults, Religion, and China
Culture Shock - The Challenge of Building or Rebuilding a Life
Curiosity and Willingness to Learn
Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women & Children
Dallas Former Member Support Group
Deception in Transcendental Meditation
Deception, Dependency, and Dread
Deprogramming Survey
Desperate People Do Desperate Things
Destructive Cult Conversion - clark et al.
Dialogue and Cultic Studies
Diana, Leaving the Cult
Divergent European Cult Policies
Dr. Paul Martin—A Good Leader and a Wonderful Counselor
Dreams of ISKCON
Dysfunctional Churches
Editor’s Corner
Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults
Ethics of Evangelism
European Muslims
Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
Exit Intervention: A New Approach to Saving Family Members From Destructive Groups
Fair Game
Families Helping Families
Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis
Family Life In and Out of a Cult
Fiabilidad Test-Retest y Validez Diagnostica
Finding and Losing My Religion
For Families Who Suspect That a Loved One May Be Involved With a High-Demand Group (Cult)
Former Members and Health-Care Reform
Forty Years in the Wilderness
Free Speech and Cultic Litigation Interview With Attorney Peter Skolnik
Free Speech Survey Report
Freemen Soverign Citizens
From Counterculture to Krishna Cult - Memories and Reflections
From Deprogramming to Deradicalization
From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation
From Survivor to Thriver
From the Fire to a Blessing Field
Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON
Getting Involved in a Cult
Government, Thought Reform, and Native History
Governments and Cults
Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery
Growing Up With Strictly Religious Parents
Grupos de Manipulación Psicológica en Cataluña
Her Critical Voice Wouldn't Die
History and Purpose of Model Presentations
History of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem
How a Dysfunctional Family Functions Like a Cult
How Can Faith Communities Help Survivors of Spiritual Abuse?
How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults
How Could Anyone Join a Cult
How the United States Marine Corps Differs from Cults
How to Find Information on a Group
How We Rescued Our Daughter
How You Can Use ICSA Resources to Help Yourself or a Loved One
I Really Believed That This Way of Living Was Right
ICSA Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model
Ideological Intransigence-Demo Centralism-Cultism
If You Want To Know How I Got Brainwashed
Impact on Children of Being Born Into/Raised in a Cultic Group
Important Issues to Consider When Choosing a Spiritual Teacher
Influence
Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader
Info-Cult at 35 Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned
Inside the Walls of a Libertarian Ideology
Interacting with Cults: Police
Introduction to the Monograph
Introduction to Traumatic Narcissism Issue
Is Human Universal Energy a Cult Masquerader?
Is Psychological Distress Among Former Cult Members Related to Psychological Abuse in the Cults
Jones on Jesus
Large Group Awareness Trainings
Leaving a Cult for Music
Legal Considerations
Les rapports d’inspection des écoles privées
Lessons From Adjacent Fields Cults and Radical Extremist Groups
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency
Lets Get Lost
Letter to a Former Member
Life After Centrepoint
Litigating Against Cults in Japan Practical Issues
Lost Love
Manipulative Therapists
Marriage After the Cult
Mediating to Settle Conflicts in Cultic Groups Some Useful Methodologies
Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions
Mommy, Did You Get to See the Dolphins
Moving On: Dealing With Family Members Who Have Caused Us Harm
My Perspective of Rosanne Henry and Leona Furnari's Presentation to the Annual SGA Workshop
My Unexpected Journey
My Voice
Myth and Themes of Ex-Membership
New Books on Polygamy
New Religions and Public Policy
On Breaking the Code of Silence
On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Researchers
On Using the Term "Cult"
Origins and Prevention of Abuse
Overview: Support Groups
Paradise and Promises Chronicles of My Life With a Self-Declared, Modern-Day Buddha
Pathological Psychoanalysis
Paul R Martin Memorial Lecture
Peace at Last
Physical Child Abuse in Sects
Pink Slip!
Pitfalls to Recovery
Points for Pastors
Post-Cult After Effects
Post-Cult Financial Recovery
Post-Cult Problems - Giambalvo
Preliminary Taxonomy of Psychological Abuse Strategies
Prevalence
Preventing Cultic Deviations in Europe
Preventing Cutic Deviations - Reply to Singelenberg
Preventive Education - A North American Perspective
Problem Solving An Approach
Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse
Psychiatric Association Statement on Repressed Memories
Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues
Psychological Coercion and Human Rights
Psychological Makeup of a Pakistani Muslim Suicide Bomber
Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Suggestion
Psychologists Survey
Questionnaire Study Preliminary Report
Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
Raised in Cultic Groups
Reading List: Undue Influence 101
Ready to Mine: Zen’s Legitimating Mythology and Cultish Behavior
Reasons for Leaving
Rebuilding the Jigsaw
Reclaiming Life Stories
Recovery: From Victim to Survivor to Thriver
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Reflection on the Life of Daphne (Lady) Vane
Reject the Wicked Man
Religion et Secte
Religion Versus Cult
Religion, Revisionists, and Revolutionary Suicide
Religious Cults, Human Rights, and Public Policy: The Secular Perspective
Religious Exemptions From Child Abuse Statutes
Religious Justifications for Child Sexual Abuse in Cults
Religious Liberty and New Religious Movements
Reply to Dr Robbins
Report of the Task Force
Report of the Task Force Summary
Research on Destructive Cults
Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse
Resisting the Pressure to Choose Between Parents
Responding to Jihadism
Retribing the Planet Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times
Saved by Our Son
Second-Generation Religious Cult Survivors Implications for Counselors
Sex Therapy With Former Cult Members
Sexual Abuse and the Charismatic Crisis
Sifting the Wheat from the Tares
Sister My Sister
Six Conditions
Social Influences on Youth
Some Things I Learned
Spiritual Abuse Across the Spectrum of Christian Environments
Spiritual Pain and Painkiller Spirituality
Stairway to Heaven
State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor
Staying Safe: Observing Warning Signs of a Dangerous Liaison
Supporting Human Rights
Suppression of Free Speech Report on a Survey
Survey Physicians
Survivor Nineninethree
Teaching Young People
Ten Steps to Critical Thinking
The ABCs of Dangerous Cults
The Art of Hoping - Anonymous
The Challenge of Defining Cult
The Definitional Ambiguity of Cult
The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment
The Genesis, Text, and Implications of Utah House Bill 214: Office for Vict
The Gentle Wind Project
The Grammatical Fiction
The Heart of Cult Recovery: Compassion for the Self
The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members
The Identity of Cult Members in the Narrative Aspect
The Impact of a Modern-Day Polygamy Group on Women
The Influence Continuum
The Law to Protect Victims of Manipulation
The Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi - A Parents Perspective
The Marriage of the Lamb
The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire
The Role of Cognitive Distortion
The Role of the Family
The Spartiates As Charismatic Cult
The Strategic Interaction Approach
The Theory That Won’t Go Away An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays in Mind Control
The Unique Characteristics of Postcult Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suggested Therapeutic Approaches.docx
The Vatican Report: Sects or New Religious Movements
Thought Reform Exists
Thought Reform Programs
Too Good to be True Teacher
Tratamiento jurídico y policial de las dinámicas de persuasión coercitiva
Traumatic Abuse in Cults
Traumatic Abuse in Cults A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Treatment of Satanism
Un análisis de las estrategias y consecuencias del terrorismo
Understanding Eastern Groups
Urban Legends and Other Misconceptions
Using Legal Analysis to Address Claims of Spiritual Abuse
Vulnerability
Weaponizing Therapy
We Disagree—Let’s Talk! Why Diversity and Dialogue Are Necessary, and How W
We Weren't Crazy
What Changed My Mind
What Counselors Should Know About Cultic Dynamics
What Do We Need to Know About Being Born or Raised in a Cultic Environment?
What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member
What Impact Does Cult Involvement Have on a Member’s Family
What Is a Cult
What Is a Cult Definitional Preface
What is Hypnosis
What is New Age
What Is Real? The Lure and Perils of Hidden Wisdom
What Is the Impact of Leaving a Cultic Group
What Messages Behind Cults
When Critical Thinking Doesn't Help Why It Fails and How to Make It Happen
When Endings Are Beginnings David’s Story
When the Cult Leader Hoists a Whilte Flag
When You're Asked About Cults
Why Cults Are Harmful Neurobiological Speculations
Why Did I Endure
Why I Had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult
Why We Need To Become Spiritual Consumers
Wild Geese
Working with Cult-affected Families
Writing Betrayal of the Spirit
You Do Not Have to Be a Fool to Be Fooled
Zealotry and American Identity
Zen and the Art of Student Abuse
Zen and the Art of Winning in Court
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