Recovery Issues
ARTICLES
The following writings may be helpful in the recovery process after a person has left
an intense, controlling, manipulative group or cult or an abusive relationship:
(Please see below for a research survey you can take online)
Coming Out of the Cults by Margaret T. Singer,
Ph.D.
Coping With Triggers
Cult Formation
by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.
Harvard Mental Health Letter.
The Manipulation of Spiritual Experience: Unethical
Hypnosis in Destructive Cults (Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D. and Steve K. Eichel,
Ph.D.)
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery (Michael D.
Langone, Ph. D.)
Psychological Issues
of former members of restrictive religious groups by Jim Moyers
Study Reveals Cultic Group's Abuses: Boston Church of
Christ/International Churches of Christ Movement. (Michael D. Langone, Ph. D.
Influence by Robert Cialdini, Ph. D.
Biderman's Chart of Coercion
Trauma and
Recovery, Chapter 6: A New Diagnosis by Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. (see chart
at end of document)
SUPPORT
reFOCUS
Support Groups
OTHER HELP IN RECOVERY
Wellspring Retreat
and Resource Center: Rehabilitation and counseling for persons emerging from
totalist/cult experiences. P.O. Box 67, Albany, OH 45710 Phone: 614-698-6277
Cult
Recover web site: Rosanne Henry's (L.P.C.) invaluable web site on
recovery.
INFORMATION
ICSA (International Cultic Studies
Association), formerly
AFF (American Family
Foundation) P.O. Box 2265, Bonita Springs, FL 34133 212-533-5420
Religious
Movement Resource Center, Hal
Mansfield, Director, 629 S. Howes, Ft. Collins, CO 80521 970-490-2032
Cult Recover web site: Rosanne Henry's (L.P.C.) invaluable web site on
recovery.
©Copyright
by Carol Giambalvo, June 1995 except where noted
Carol Giambalvo
P.O. Box 2180
Flagler Beach,
FL 32136
Phone:
386-439-7541 Fax: 386-439-7537
carol2180@aol.com
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