Carol Giambalvo's Cult Information and Recovery
Open Letter to Clergy
What is a Cult?
Recovery Workshops
Recovery Issues
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: (click to read)
Cult Recovery - A Clinician's Guide to working with Former Members and Families by ICSA authors
Coming Out of the Cults by Margaret T. Singer, Ph.D.
Coping With Triggers by Carol Giambalvo
Cult Formation by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. Harvard Mental Health Letter.
The Manipulation of Spiritual Experience: Unethical Hypnosis in Destructive Cults by Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D. and Steve K. Eichel, Ph.D.)
Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery by Michael D. Langone, Ph. D.
Psychological Issues of former members of restrictive religious groups by Jim Moyers: http://home.earthlink.net/~jcmmsm/article/index.html
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)
reFOCUS web site: http://www.refocus.org
INFORMATION on Cults and Recovery, Conferences and Workshops: ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association, formerly AFF(American Family Foundation) P.O. Box 2265, Bonita Springs, FL 34133 239-514-3081 at http://www.icsahome.com
Cult Recover - Rosanne Henry's (L.P.C.) invaluable web site on recovery: http://www.cultrecover.com/