Recovery from Cults is a book edited by Michael Langone, published by the American Family Foundation, an anti-cult organization, and is premised upon the mind control model of NRM membership. One famous contributor is the psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Download high resolution version (588x855, 80 KB)Book published by the American Family Foundation, a major anti-cult organization. ... Download high resolution version (588x855, 80 KB)Book published by the American Family Foundation, a major anti-cult organization. ... Book published by the International Cultic Studies Association The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is since 2004 the new name of the American Family Foundation (AFF), a major anti-cult organization based in the United States. ... Book published by the International Cultic Studies Association (a. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... NRM is a TLA that can refer to: New religious movement. ... Philip G. Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist, best-known for his Stanford prison experiment and bestselling introductions to psychology. ...
Paul R. Martin Ph. D., the director of the only American recovery center for ex-cultists wrote in Chapter 10 Post-Cult Recovery: Assessment Rehabilitation, the following,
"In attempting to understand what has happened to the ex-cultist, it is often helpful to employ the victim, or trauma, model. According to this model, victimization and the resultant distress are due to the shattering of three basic assumptions held about the world and the self. These assumptions are: "the belief in personal invulnerability, the perception of the world as meaningful, and the perception of oneself as positive" (Janoff-Bulma, 1985, p. 15). The ex-cultist has been traumatized, deceived, conned, used and often emotionally, physically, sexually, and mentally abused while serving the group and/or the leader. Like other trauma victims (for example, of criminal acts, rape, and serious illness), former cultists often reexperience the painful memories of their group involvement. They also lose interest in the outside world, feel detached from society, and may show limited emotions (Janoff-Bulman, 1985, pp.16,17)." Psychological trauma may accompany physical trauma, or exist independently. ... Victim was the title of a British film made in 1961, directed by Basil Deardon and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Simms. ...
Book published by the International Cultic Studies Association (a. ... Brainwashing or thought reform is the application of coercive techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people for political purposes. ... Opposition to cults and new religious movements comes from several sources with diverse concerns. ...
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Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse, Michael D. Langone, editor ISBN 0393313212
Children and Cults excerpt from Recovery From Cults Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse.
Heed the dictum, "treat each case individually." Adult or young adult cult joiners have a more or less mature personality before they enter the cult..~ noted in the Introduction to this book, they may develop a cult "pseudopersonality" in order to adapt to the intense and conflicting demands of the group.
In the case of adults, this is a "pseudopersonality," ergo the rapid and large decline in dependency after cult rehabilitation (Martin, 1992).
In my definition, a cult is a group that is led by a person who claims, explicitly or implicitly, to have reached human perfection; or, in the case of a religious cult, who claims unity with the divine; and therefore claims to be exempt from social or moral limitations or restrictions.
Extending this formulation to cult leaders and followers, the cult leader can be understood as needing to disavow her dependency and expel her dread of psychic dissolution, which she succeeds in doing insofar as she is able to induce that dependency and fear in the follower.
In recovery, the latter person will be concerned with quite different issues, such as resentment of his parents, grief about loss of education and social opportunities, for example, than the person whose history of developmental trauma is what led him to embrace cult membership in the first place.
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