The Cult Education Institute

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“An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Cult Education Institute (CEI), formerly known as the Ross Institute of New Jersey, is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. CEI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts, personal testimonies and hundreds of links to additional relevant resources. This Internet archive is well-organized for easy access and reference.”

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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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Cult information

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Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion

“a non-fiction book on cults and coercive persuasion, written by Marc Galanter (MD). The book was published in hardcover format in 1989 by Oxford University Press, and again in hardcover in 1999 in a second edition work. The second edition was reprinted by Oxford University Press, in March 2007.” 

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CultResearch.org

"The mission of this site is to promote a deeper, more accurate understanding of cults and the effects of cults. This is accomplished through the research of Dr. Janja Lalich, founder and developer of CultResearch.org. Dr. Lalich is:

• A world-renowned expert in cultic studies
  
• Professor of sociology at California State University, Chico
  
• Author and coauthor of critically acclaimed books on cults
  
• Avid contributor to the field of cultic studies through her research, presentations, and articles"
  

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Cult information

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Professor Eileen Barker, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics 

Eileen Barker on studying cults 

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Cult information

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Cult Awareness and Information Library

Cult Information Centre

Cult Avoidance Society

International Cultic Studies Association

Cult Research

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Cults, Religion and Violence

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