Educate Yourself....
Smoke and Mirrors of the Guru-Myth
- The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists:
Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and family
(Eleanor Payson) - The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships
(Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D.) - The Guru Papers: Masks if Authoritarian Power
(Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad) - Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus
(Anthony Storr) - Halfway Up the Mountain:
The Error Of Premature Claims to Enlightenment
(Mariana Caplan) - Toward a Psychology of Awakening:
Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
(John Welwood)
Cults and Cult Recovery
- Releasing The Bonds:
Empowering People to Think for Themselves
(Steven Hassan) - Cults in our Midst:
The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace
(Margaret Thaler Singer) - Take Back Your Life:
Recovering From Cults and Abusive Relationships
(Janja Lalich and Madelenine Tobias)
a.k.a. Captive Hearts, Captive Minds - Recovery from Cults:
Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse
(Michael D. Langone) - The Nazi Doctors:
Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
(Robert Jay Lifton) - Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism:
A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
(Robert Jay Lifton)
Power, Abuse and Recovery
- The Cry of Tamar:
Violence Against Women and The Church's Response
(Pamela Cooper-White) - Is Nothing Sacred?:
When Sex Invades the Pastoral Relationship
(Marie M. Fortune) - Father/Daughter Incest (Judith Herman)
- Trauma and Recovery (Judith Herman)
- Sex In The Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power- Therapist
Doctors, Clergy, Teachers, and others- Betray Woman's Trust
(Peter Rutter, M.D.) - Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems:
Scapegoating, Family Secrets, and the Abuse of Power
(Candace R. Benyei, PhD) - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
(Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D)
Rick Ross has the most comprehensive booklist on cults/spiritual abuse/ mind control/ destructive groups available on the Internet today: Rick Ross' Book List
Ex- scientologists and activists have the next best: Booklist
