Cult Information Bookstore
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Overview of resources from AFF's bookstore that we believe will interest Researchers.

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Books

• Cults in Our Midst
• Cults on Campus
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Recovery from Cults
• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
• Women Under the Influence

Videos 

• After the Cult: Recovering Together

CSJ Reprints 

Deprogramming An Analysis of Parental Questionnaires. Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. 

On Resisting Social Influence.  Susan Andersen, Ph.D. & Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D. 

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

Some New Religions Are Dangerous.  Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D. & Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel. 

Cults Go To High School: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Initial Stage in the Recruitment Process.  Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. & Cynthia F. Hartley.   

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

Cult Vs. Non-Cult Jewish Families: Factors Influencing Conversion.  Mark Sirkin, Ph.D. & Bruce A. Grellong, Ph.D. 

Family Environment as a Factor in Vulnerability to Cult Involvement.  Neil Maron, Ph.D. 

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

Social Influence: Ethical Considerations.  Michael Langone, Ph.D.

Deprogramming: A Case Study .  Steve Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D.– special issue 

The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace?  Arthur Dole, Ph.D., Michael Langone, Ph.D., & Steve Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D. 

Deprogramming:  A Case Study - Part II: Conversation Analysis.  Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D. 

Cult Formation .  Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. 

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

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

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

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

Psychological Abuse .  Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. 

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. 

Is the New Age Movement Harmless?  Critics vs. Experts.  A. Dole, Ph.D., M. Langone, Ph.D., & S. Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D. 

Strongly Held Views About the New Age: Critics Versus Experts.  Arthur Dole, Ph.D. & Michael Langone, Ph.D. 

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. 

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

Expanding the Groupthink Explanation to the Study of Contemporary Cults.  Mark N. Wexler, Ph.D. 

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

Personality, Belief in the Paranormal, and Involvement with Satanic Practices Among Young Adult Males.  Stuart M. Leeds. 

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

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

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. 

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

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

Brief Report: Perceived Psychological Abuse and the Cincinnati Church of Christ.  Donna L. Adams 

Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization: A Rational/Empirical Defense of Thought Reform. Paul R. Martin, Ph.D., Lawrence Pile, Ron Burks, & Stephen Martin

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. 

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

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

Arousal, capacity and intense indoctrination Robert S. Baron, Ph.D.