Articles

This page contains an alphabetical list of all articles on the site.  The readings pages select and organize articles according to different purposes: Recovery; Families; Religious Professionals, Mental Health. Personal accounts for the Story Blog are listed on that page.

A 30-Year Odyssey - A. Williams

A Code of Ethics for the Christian Evangelist

A House of Mirrors - K. Garrett

A Safe-Haven Church An Introduction to the Basics of a Safe Religious Community - N. Damgaard

A Statement of Evaluation Regarding Maranatha Campus Ministries/Maranatha Christian Ministries/Maranatha Christian Church

An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form? - G. Jenkinson

An Open Letter to Clergy Regarding Helping Former Members of Abusive Churches or Cults - C. Giambalvo

Are Cultic Environments Psychologically Harmful - Mckibben et al.

Back From the Brink: An Abusive Church Movement Recovers Its Balance - L. Pile

Bad Fruits of the Legion of Christ Catholic Religious Order - J. P. Lennon

Book Review - Born and Raised in a [SECT]: You are not Alone 

Book Review - I Can't Hear God Anymore

Book Review - Jesus Doesnt Live Here

Book Review - Jesus Freaks A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge

Book Review - Opus Dei

Book Review - Our Father, Who Art in Bed A Naïve and Sentimental Dubliner in the Legion of Christ

Book Review - Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of Wholeness (1)

Book Review - Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of Wholeness (2)

Book Review - The Discipling Dilemma

Book Review - The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse.

Book Review - Unholy Devotion

Born or Raised in Closed, High-Demand Groups: Developmental Considerations - L. Furnari

Characteristics Associated With Cultic Groups - M. Langone

Charismatic Covenant Community: A Failed Promise - A. Reimers

Checks on Power and Authority in the New Testament - H. Bussell

Choosing a Church - L. Pile

Clinical Update on Cults - M. Langone

Coming Back Home - J. Katzer

Cult Formation - R. Lifton

Cult Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents and Professionals - M. Langone

Cults Evangelicals and the Ethics of Social Influence - M. Langone

Cults: What Clergy Should Know - R. Dowhower

Disciple Abuse - G. MacDonald

Dysfunctional Churches - R. Enroth

Ethics in Proselytizing - A Jewish Perspective - R. Mecklenburger

Evangelization and Freedom in the Catholic Church - J. LeBar

Family Dynamics During a Cult Crisis - D. Agustin

Family Responses to a Young Adult's Cult Membership and Return - L. and W. Goldberg

From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation - C. Giambalvo et al.

Groucho Marx and Cult Recovery - M. Langone

Guidelines for Faith Communities - M. Langone

Guidelines for Spiritually Abused Persons - M. Langone

How to Talk to People Who are Trying to Save You - R. Miller

Inner Experience and Conversion - M. Langone

Is Your Religious Organization Free From Cultic Tendencies?- G. Jenkinson

Lessons Learned from SGAs about Recovery and Resiliency - Furnari and Henry

Mind Control - Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric - P. Zimbardo

Moments of Grace - N. Miquelon

More Than the Devils Due - A. Reimers

My Experience in YWAM - L. Jacobson

Nothing Need Go To Waste - P. Knapp

Of Cults and Evangelicals - R. Enroth

On Using the Term "Cult" - H. Rosedale and M. Langone

Origins and Prevention of Abuse in Religious Groups  - M. Langone

Physical Child Abuse in Sects - L. Kendall

Post-Cult After Effects - M. Singer

Post-Cult Problems: An Exit Counselor's Perspective - C. Giambalvo

Prevalence - M. Langone

Problem Solving An Approach for the Cult-Impacted Family - S. Andron

Psychological Abuse - M. Langone

Psychotherapy With Ex-Cultists: Four Case Studies and Commentary - L. and W. Goldberg

Raised in Cultic Groups: The Impact on the Development of Certain Aspects of Character - L. Goldberg

Religion Versus Cult - R. Dowhower

Research on Destructive Cults - M. Langone

Research Survey on Spiritual Abuse - M. Langone

Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes - A Collective of Women

Sex Therapy with Former Cult Members - S. Eichel

Shipwrecked in the Spirit - J. Tydings

Sifting the Wheat from the Tares - P. Vere

Six Conditions for Thought Reform M. Singer

Spiritual Harm in New Religions - P. Lucas

Stairway to Heaven: Treating Children in the Crosshairs of Trauma - B. Perry

Ten Steps to Critical Thinking - R. Fellows

The Ethics of Evangelism and Cult Recruitment - E. Thiessen

The Making of a Disciple in the International Churches of Christ - K. Kelly

The Dangers of Spiritual Abuse: Clinical Implications and Best Practices  - C.  Matthews

The Perils of Persuasive Preaching - D. Litfin

The Results of the International Cultic Studies Association’s 2008 Questionnaire - D. Dowhower

The Role of the Family - W. Ford

The Theory That Won’t Go Away: An Updated Review of the Role Hypnosis Plays - S. Eichel

Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective - D. Shaw

Treatment of Satanism - Langone and Nieburg

Vulnerability - R. Fellows

Why Did I Endure - C. Buddington

Why Evangelicals are Vulnerable to Cults - H. Bussell

Why I had to Escape a Fundamentalist Cult - C. Edge