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Due to some helpful feedback from members we will be building up a data base on research organisations and literature dealing with cults and their impact. Continuing with:
Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Shaw D, Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003, p. 101
"Abstract
Using
his ten year experience in Siddha Yoga under the leadership of
Gurumayi, the author presents psychoanalytic concept-ualizations of
narcissism in an effort to develop a way of understanding cult
leaders and their followers, and especially of traumatic abuse in
cults from the follower's perspective. A psychoanalytically informed
treatment approach for working with recovering cult followers is
proposed, consisting of providing:
1)
an understanding of the leader's extreme dependence on the follower's
submission and psychological enslavement;
2)
a clear, firm, and detailed understanding of the leader's
abusiveness; and
3)
an exploration of normative and/or traumatic developmental issues for
the follower, as part of a process of making sense of and giving
meaning to the follower's experience."
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