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Overview of resources from AFF's bookstore that we believe will interest the Press.

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Books

• Captive Hearts, Captive Minds
• Cults on Campus
• Recovery from Cults
• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
• 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 Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents and Professionals.  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (2.1) 

Introduction to Special Issue: Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence.  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (2.2) 

A Code of Ethics for the Christian Evangelist. (2.2) 

Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence.  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (2.2) 

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) 

Sects or New Religious Movements: A Pastoral Challenge  The Vatican Report on Cults. (3.1) 

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

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

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

Cults and the European Parliament: A Practical Political Response to an International Problem.  David Wilshire, MA, MP. (7.1) 

The Involvement of College Students in Totalist Groups: Causes, Concerns, Legal Issues, and Policy Considerations.  Gregory Blimling, Ph.D. (7.1) 

Psychotherapy Cults.  Margaret T. Singer, Ph.D., Maurice Temerlin, Ph.D., & Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (7.2) 

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

Cults in Court.  Sarah Van Hoey. (8.1) 

Task Force Study of Ritual Crime.  Michael Maddox, Esq. & the Virginia State Crime Commission. (8.2) 

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

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

Cults, Coercion, and Contumely.  M. Singer, Ph.D. & M. Addis. (9.2) 

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

Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Leader, David Berg.  Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.  (11.2) 

Cults in American Society.  American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law.  (12.1) 

Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults: Complementary Visions, Not Irresolvable Conflicts.  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. (12.2) 

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

Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism, and Cultism: A Case Study from the Political Left. Dennis Tourish, Ph.D. (15.1)

Residence Halls and Cults: Fact or Fiction? Russell K. Elleven, Ed.D., Carolyn W. Kern, Ph.D., & Katherine Claunch Moore (15.1)

Moments of Grace.  Nancy Miquelon (15.2) 

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

What Should be Done about Cults? A Panel Discussion at the 1999 AFF Annual Conference. Michael Langone (18) 

Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society: International Perspectives - An Overview.  Paper Presented at AFF Annual Conference.  Michael Langone (18)