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Recovering from Cult Experiences: How to Recognize & Resolve Aftereffects
Move Forward Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska August 2014 Thank you. First of all, I’d like to extend...
What makes a cult a cult?
How can you tell if a group is a cult or not? After a recent report about a cat-worshipping,...
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Why We Need to Recognize Brainwashing and its Close and Distant Cousins A Work in Progress by...
Perspectives on U.S. Cult-related Court Cases
Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Sociology Prepared for European Conference of FECRIS 16...
We Own Her Now
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published as the Introduction to a...
Behavioral Control System
Methods Used to Support a Behavioral Control System Isolation of the person and manipulation of...
The Change Process
Cultic Techniques for Changing Someone In present-day thought-reform programs, there is an attack...
Repairing the Soul
I was recruited into a cult in 1975 when I was thirty years old. The previous year I returned to...
Thought-Reform System
Eight Psychological Criteria for a Thought-Reform System This list is based on the work of Robert...
Social-Psychological Influence
How Cults Manipulate a Person's Thinking and Behavior Many people who have been subjected to...
Definition and Explanation of the Word “Cult”
Definition of "Cult": A cult can be either a sharply-bounded social group or a diffusely-bounded...
Inside and Outcast
Inside and Outcast This article, authored by Janja Lalich and Karla McLaren, was published in the...