The following is a quote from Jeanne Mills, a defector from Jim Jones’ Peoples temple. She was murdered a year subsequent to the Nov. 18, 1978 Jonestown suicides/murders of 911 children, woman and men. She wrote this shortly before being murdered. Listen to what she is telling the world: “When…
Spitzer Reportedly Recants Controversial Reparativ…
The “patina of scientific credibility” to which leaders of the so-called “ex-gay” movement have been clinging in their embrace of a deeply controversial 2001 study on “reparative therapy” has been taken away.
California Outlaws "Reparative Therapy"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 Over the weekend, California became the first state with a law banning so-called reparative therapy, a discredited intervention that claims it can turn homosexuals into heterosexuals. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law, outlawing the practice of reparative therapies in youth younger than age 18. Brown said…
Men Sue Reparative Therapy Center Over Psychological Harm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 Four young men have taken the rare step of suing a facility that provides so-called “reparative therapy,” and the individuals who run it, claiming that the techniques used to “cure” their homosexuality included ones that inflicted psychological damage. The suit was filed yesterday in Hudson County (N.J.) Superior Court…
Understanding and Coping with Triggers
Carol Giambalvo; Joseph Kelly Dissociation is a disturbance in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness. It is also known as a trance state. It is a very normal defense mechanism. You’ve all probably heard of how a child being abused—or persons in the midst of traumatic experiences—dissociate. Those…
Deprogramming: A Case Study Part II: Conversation Analysis
Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D. RETIRN Philadelphia Abstract This article continues the examination of a successful deprogramming of an International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) devotee (cultist) described in Cultic Studies Journal Special Issue Vol. 6, No. 2. The deprogramming was observed and audiotaped. A sample consisting of 1,938 speech fragments…
Cult Formation
Cult Formation Robert J. Lifton, M.D. John Jay College Abstract Cults represent one aspect of a worldwide epidemic of ideological totalism, or fundamentalism. They tend to be associated with a charismatic leader, thought reform, and exploitation of members. Among the methods of thought reform commonly used by cults are milieu…
Ill flock to Brazil ‘psychic surgeon’ John of God
John of God grabs what looks like a kitchen knife from a silver tray and appears to scrape it over the right eye of a believer.
An Open Letter to Clergy Regarding Helping Former Members of Abusive Churches or Cults
ICSA Today, Vol. 03, No. 02. Carol Giambalvo ICSA Director of Recovery Programs, ICSA Board of Directors As both the Director of Recovery Programs for the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) and a cofounder of reFOCUS, a support and referral network for former members of closed, intense organizations or relationships,…
They came from the heavens
FringeAldis Brennan December 7, 2012 As a child Diane Brisebois was brought up Catholic. But, like any teenager, she rebelled when she hit adolescence. She began to question the validity of Christianity. Unable to find a satisfactory explanation for the existence of God, she searched for something that did make…