Michael Langone, Ph. D., is an American counseling psychologist who specialises in research about cultic groups and psychological manipulation. He is executive director of the International Cultic Studies Association, editor of the journal Cultic Studies Review. A psychologist is a social scientist who studies psychology, the study of the human mind, thought and human behaviour. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a relatively small and cohesive group of people (often a new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ... The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is: ... an interdisciplinary network of academicians, professionals, former group members, and families who study and educate the public about social-psychological influence and control, authoritarianism, and zealotry in cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments. ...
Michael Langone is author and co-author of several books and has published numerous articles . The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...
He started 1981 to work for the American Family Foundation.
In 1995 he was named visiting scholar at Boston University's Albert Danielsen Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology and did a research comparing former members of a cultic group and of two mainstream religious groups regarding psychological distress and members' perceptions of abusiveness . Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
In 1995 he received the Leo J. Ryan award. Congressman Leo Ryan (D-California) Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. ...
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