A definitive and shocking expose that reveals what cults are and how they work. With vital information on how to help people escape cult entrapments and recover from the experience, this book will be an invaluable resource to former cult members.

Cults in Our Midst

Health, Fitness & Dieting

LIFTON, ROBERT JAY

Lalich, Janja

Singer, Margaret Thaler

Psychology & Counseling

Jossey-Bass

A startling--and often downright amusing--expose of the alternative philosophies and practices that can be found in today's ever-growing psychotherapeutic marketplace. The book describes actual case histories of people who participated in a variety of controversial therapies, including alien abduction, past lives regression, and aromatherapy.

Crazy Therapies : What Are They? Do They Work?

Cult victims and those who have suffered abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low self-esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides guidelines for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track. Written for victims, their families, and professionals, this book leads readers through the healing process.

Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships

Tobias, Madeleine Landau

Langone, Michael

Addiction & Recovery

Hunter House

In America today an estimated 5000 cults have affected over 10 million people. Whether their focus is religion, politics, therapy or self-improvement, cults exact an inestimable cost, both emotionally and financially, from those who join. Sensitively written by two former cult members, this book provides the hands-on help ex-cultists need to recover from manipulation and mind control.

Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Abusive Relationships

Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships

Self-Help

Tobias, Madeleine

Self-Esteem

Bay Tree Publishing

Escaping Utopia

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group.  In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.

Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over

Politics & Social Sciences

McLaren, Karla

Social Sciences

Routledge

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.

Generalmente pensamos que los miembros de sectas son desequilibrados mentales o inadaptados que viven en lugares remotos, como los infelices devotos de Jim Jones y David Koresh. Nos quedamos tranquilos porque creemos que estos fenómenos se hallan muy alejados de nuestra vida cotidiana. Pero esto no es cierto. Se estima que

Las sectas

Religion & Spirituality

Thaler, Singer Margaret

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Gedisa

Sociology

Lalich Center on Cults & Coercion

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