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Overview of resources from AFF's bookstore that we believe will interest Mental Health Professionals.

highly recommended

Books

• Captive Hearts, Captive Minds
• Crazy Therapies
• Cults in Our Midst
• Recovery from Abusive Groups
• Recovery from Cults
• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Women Under the Influence

Videos 

• After the Cult: Recovering Together

CSJ Reprints 

Cults and Children: The Abuse of the Young.  A. Markowitz, C.S.W. & D. Halperin, M.D. (1.2) 

Psychotherapy and the "New Religions": Are They The Same?  Daniel Kriegman, Ph.D. & Leonard Solomon, Ph.D. (2.1) 

Cult-Induced Psychopathology, Part I: Clinical Picture.  Stephen M. Ash, Psy.D. (2.1) 

Cult Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents and Professionals .  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (2.1) 

Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Techniques.  Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. & Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. (3.1) 

“Mind Control" and the Battering of Women  Teresa Ramirez Boulette, Ph.D. & Susan Andersen, Ph.D. (3.1) 

The Rabbi and the Sex Cult: Power Expansion in the Formation of a Cult.  Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. (3.2) 

Parental Responses to Their Children's Cult Membership .  Lita Linzer Schwartz, Ph.D. (3.2) 

Some Hazards of the Therapeutic Relationship.  Jane W. Temerlin, M.S.W. & Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph.D. (3.2) 

Psychoanalysis and Cult Affiliation: Clinical Perspectives.  David Halperin, M.D. (4.1) 

"Reject the Wicked Man" - Coercive Persuasion and Deviance Production: A Study of Conflict Management .  Jerry Paul McDonald. (4.2/5.1) 

Trouble in Paradise: Some Observations on Psychotherapy with New Agers.  Steve & Linda Dubrow-Eichel. (5.2) 

Psychotherapy with Ex-Cultists: Four Case Studies and Commentary.  L. Goldberg, M.S.W. & W. Goldberg, M.S.W (5.2) 

Coerced Confessions: The Logic of Seemingly Irrational Action.  Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. (6.1) 

Social Influence: Ethical Considerations.  Michael Langone, Ph.D. (6.1) 

Cults and Children: The Role of the Psychotherapist. David Halperin, M.D. (6.1)

Family Responses to a Young Adult's Cult Membership and Return . Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W & William Goldberg, M.S.W.. (6.1)

Reintegration of Exiting Cult Members with their Families: A Brief Intervention Model. Kevin Crawley, Diana Paulina, M.Ed., & Robert White, L.D. (7.1)

The False Transformational Promise of Bible-Based Cults: Archetypal Dynamics.  Nadine Craig, M.A. & Robert Weathers, Ph.D. (7.2) 

Cult Formation .  Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. (8.1) 

Residential Treatment: The Potential for Cultic Evolution.  David A. Halperin, M.D. & Arnold Markowitz, M.S.W. (8.1) 

Outreach to Ex-Cult Members: The Question of Terminology.  Michael Langone, Ph.D. & William Chambers, Ph.D. (8.2) 

The Cadre Ideal: Origins and Development of a Political Cult .  Janja Lalich. (9.1) 

Psychiatric Problems in Ex-Members of Word of Life.  Gudrun Swartling, O.T. & Per G. Swartling, M.D. (9.1) 

Psychotherapy Cults: An Ethical Analysis.  Kim Boland & Gordon Lindbloom, Ph.D. (9.2) 

Psychological Abuse .  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (9.2) 

Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI Before and After Residential Treatment.  Paul R. Martin, Ph.D., Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D., & Jeffrey Wiltrout. (9.2) 

Undue Influence and Written Documents: Psychological Aspects.  Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. (10.1) 

The Dark Underside: Cultic Misappropriation of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.  David Halperin, M.D. (10.1) 

Cult Conversion, Deprogramming, and the Triune Brain.  Geri-Ann Galanti. (10.1) 

The Group Psychological Abuse Scale: A Measure of the Varieties of Cultic Abuse.  William Chambers, Ph.D., Michael Langone, Ph.D., Arthur Dole, Ph.D., & James W. Grice. (11.1) 

Psychological Issues of Former Fundamentalists.  James C. Moyers. (11.2) 

Clinical Case Studies of Cult Members.  Arthur  Dole, Ph.D. (12.2) 

Pseudo-identity and the Treatment of Personality Change in Victims of Captivity and Cults.  Louis J. West, M.D. & Paul Martin, Ph.D. (13.2) 

Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment in Children and Adolescents.  American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. (13.2) 

Introduction: “We Own Her Now.” Janja Lalich. (14.1) 

Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults.  Janja Lalich. (14.1) 

Gender Attributes That Affect Women’s Attraction to and Involvement in Cults.  Shelly Rosen. (14.1) 

Mothers In Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children.  Alexandra Stein. (14.1) 

Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups.  A Collective of Women. (14.1) 

No Place to Go: Life in a Prison Without Bars.  Katherine Betz. (14.1) 

Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah’s Witness Women.  Kaynor J. Weishaupt & Michael D. Stensland. (14.1) 

Working with Women Survivors of Cults: An Empowerment Model for Counselors.  Penny Dahlen. (14.1) 

The Individual Cult Experience Index: The Assessment of Cult Involvement and Its Relationship to Postcult Distress.  Nadine Winocur, Jonibeth Whitney, Carol Sorenson, Peggy Vaughn, & David Foy. (14.2) 

Moments of Grace.  Nancy Miquelon (15.2) 

Cult Experience: Psychological Abuse, Distress, Personality Characteristics, and Changes in Personal Relationships Reported by Former Members of Church Universal and Triumphant.  Irene Gasde, Richard Block, Ph.D. (15.2) 

Psychological Distress in Former Members of the International Churches of Christ and Noncultic Groups.  Peter T. Malinoski, Michael D. Langone, & Steven Jay Lynn (16.1) 

In Good Faith: Society and the New Religious Movements, Summary Report.  Swedish Government Commission (16.1) 

Shipwrecked in the Spirit: Implications of Some Controversial Catholic Movements.  Judith Church Tydings (16.2) 

Proposing a "Bill of Inalienable Rights" for Intentional Communities.  Benjamin Zablocki (16.2)

How Should the Communities Movement Handle Questions of Abuse? Responding to Benjamin Zablocki's Proposed "Bill of Rights."  Laird Sandhill (16.2)