Recommended Reading
Note: Most books can be ordered on ICSA's web site: http://www.icsahome.com - Click on books.
Churches that Abuse and Healing from Churches that Abuse, by Ronald M. Enroth
Help for those hurt by legalism, authoritarian leadership, manipulation,
excessive discipline, and spiritual intimidation. These books are online free.
Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich (1996, Jossey-Bass)
Cults In Our Midst: The Hidden Influence in Our Everyday Lives by Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich (1995, Jossey-Bass)
How We Know What Isn't So, The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich (1991, The Free Press, Macmillan)
Influence: The new psychology of modern persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. (Quill, 1984)
Recovery from Abusive Groups by Wendy Ford (American Family Foundation (ICSA), 1990)
Recovery from Cults: Help for the Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse, edited by Michael D. Langone (1993, Norton)
Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias (2006, Bay Tree Publishing)
The Verbally Abusive Relationship and Verbal Abusive Survivors Speak Out on Relationship and Recovery by Patricia Evans, Bob Adams, Inc. Publishers, 1992/1993
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, by Robert Jay Lifton (Chapel Hill, 1989)
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Dr. Robert D. Hare (Poscket Books, 1993)
NEW ~~ AND FREE!
ICSA is proud to welcome STARTING OUT IN MAINSTREAM AMERICA by Livia Bardin, an online resource for people who have left cults, their families and friends, and professionals working with them. Online at http://www.starting out.icsa.name
Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich (1996, Jossey-Bass)
Cults In Our Midst: The Hidden Influence in Our Everyday Lives by Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich (1995, Jossey-Bass)
How We Know What Isn't So, The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich (1991, The Free Press, Macmillan)
Influence: The new psychology of modern persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. (Quill, 1984)
Recovery from Abusive Groups by Wendy Ford (American Family Foundation (ICSA), 1990)
Recovery from Cults: Help for the Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse, edited by Michael D. Langone (1993, Norton)
Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias (2006, Bay Tree Publishing)
The Verbally Abusive Relationship and Verbal Abusive Survivors Speak Out on Relationship and Recovery by Patricia Evans, Bob Adams, Inc. Publishers, 1992/1993
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, by Robert Jay Lifton (Chapel Hill, 1989)
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Dr. Robert D. Hare (Poscket Books, 1993)
NEW ~~ AND FREE!
ICSA is proud to welcome STARTING OUT IN MAINSTREAM AMERICA by Livia Bardin, an online resource for people who have left cults, their families and friends, and professionals working with them. Online at http://www.starting out.icsa.name
