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

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Books

• Captive Hearts, Captive Minds
• Recovery from Cults
• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Videos 

• After the Cult: Recovering Together
• What is a Cult

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CSJ Reprints 

On Resisting Social Influence

 Susan Andersen, Ph.D. & Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D. (1.2)

Psychotherapy and the "New Religions": Are They The Same?

 Daniel Kriegman, Ph.D. & Leonard Solomon, Ph.D (2.1)

Some New Religions Are Dangerous

 Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D. & Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel. (2.1)

“Mind Control" and the Battering of Women

Teresa Ramirez Boulette, Ph.D. & Susan Andersen, Ph.D. (3.1)

Some Rigors of Our Times: The First Amendment and Real Life and Death

One ACLU Member Looks at Guyana, Nazis, and Pornography.  Fay Stender, Esq. (4.1)

Comments on Stender Article

George Driesen, Peter N. Georgiades. (4.1)

Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case.

 Randy Francis Kandel, Esq. (4.2/5.1) 

Coerced Confessions: The Logic of Seemingly Irrational Action.

 Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. (6.1) 

Social Influence: Ethical Considerations.

Michael Langone, Ph.D. (6.1)   

Legal Analysis of Intent as a Continuum Emphasizing Social Context of Volition.

Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq. (6.1)

State of Israel Report of the Interministerial Committee Set Up to Examine Cults ("New Groups") in Israel (6.1)

Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults.

Ford Greene, Esq. (6.1)

Cults and Children: The Role of the Psychotherapist.

David Halperin, M.D. (7.1)

Cults and the European Parliament: A Practical Political Response to an International Problem.

David Wilshire, MA, MP. (7.1) 

Prosecuting an Ex-Cult Member's Undue Influence Suit.

Lawrence Levy, J.D. (7.1) 

Cult Formation.

Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. (8.1) 

Cults in Court.

Sarah Van Hoey. (8.1) 

The Council of Europe's Report on Sects and New Religious Movements.  (9.1)

Undue Influence in Contract and Probate Law.

Abraham Nievod, Ph.D., J.D. (10.1)

Undue Influence and Written Documents: Psychological Aspects.

Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. (10.1) 

Cults in American Society: A Legal Analysis of Undue Influence, Fraud and Misrepresentation

(12.1) CSJ version available in electronic format.
 

Judgment by the Fukuoka (Japan) District Court on the Unification Church.

(12.1)

Women and Cults: A Lawyer's Perspective.

 Herbert Rosedale, Esq. (12.2) 

Legal Decision: Borawick v. Shay 

(13.1)

Commentary on Borawick v. Shay: The Fate of Hypnotically Retrieved Memories.

Alan W. Scheflin, Esq. (13.1)

Commentary on …Borawick v. Shay: Hypnosis, Social Influence, Incestuous Child Abuse, and Satanic Ritual Abuse: The Iatrogenic Creation of Horrific Memories for the Remote Past.

Robert A. Karlin, Ph.D., & Martin T. Orne, M.D., Ph.D. (13.1)

Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants

Carol Giambalvo, Joseph Kelly, Patrick Ryan & Madeleine Landau Tobias. (13.1) 

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)   

The Threat to Entrepreneurial Freedom and Initiative Posed by "New Age" Management Training Programs.

Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq. (13.2)   

Hypnosis and the Iatrogenic Creation of Memory: On the Need for a Per Se Exclusion of Testimony Based on Hypnotically Influenced Recall

Robert A. Karlin & Martin T. Orne. (14.2)   

False Memory and Buridan’s Ass: A Response to Karlin and Orne.

Alan W. Scheflin. (14.2)

Women, the Law, and Cults: Three Avenues of Legal Recourse—New Rape Laws, Violence Against Women Act, and Antistalking Laws.

Robin A. Boyle, J.D. (15.1) 

A Comment on the Debate Between Scheflin and Karlin and Orne on the Admissibility of Hypnotically Refreshed Testimony.

Gilbert C. Hoover, IV, Esq. (15.1)   

In Favor of a Per Se Exclusion of Hypnotically Influenced Testimony: A Reply to Hoover.

Robert A. Karlin, Ph.D. and Martin T. Orne, M.D., Ph.D. (15.1) 

How Childlren in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws to Free Themselves.

Robin A. Boyle (16.1) 

In Good Faith: Society and the New Religious Movements, Summary Report. 

Swedish Government Commission (16.1)

Cults in Japan: Legal Issues.

Hiroshi Yamaguchi (18)

Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women and Children.

 Robin Boyle, Esq. (18)