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Times Calls Reparative Therapy "Pseudopsychiatry"

Dec

2012

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 In an editorial in today’s edition, theNew York Times condemns as dangerous so-called reparative therapy, which its adherents claim can change homosexuals into heterosexuals, labeling it “absurd, potentially harmful, pseudopsychiatry.” The paper published the editorial in response to its article a few days earlier describing psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, M.D.’s, renouncing of a widely publicized—and ...

Spitzer Reportedly Recants Controversial Reparativ…

Dec

2012

MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 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. That’s what psychiatrist Jack Drescher, M.D., told Psychiatric Newsabout reports that Robert Spitzer, M.D., the author of the study that ...

California Outlaws "Reparative Therapy"

Dec

2012

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 he hoped this law would ...

Men Sue Reparative Therapy Center Over Psychological Harm

Dec

2012

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 against the organization known as ...

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Cults in Occulture: Channeling September 28, 2020
Joseph SzimhartCults in OccultureChanneling"Channeling or spirit possession has ancient roots in human religious behavior going back beyond oracles in Greece to the first shamans. Channeling takes many forms like infusing life forces into crystals using mental power to performing on a stage before thousands of devotees as if your body is possessed by an angel. […]
Religious sect Twelve Tribes under police investigation after dig for remains September 28, 2020
Religious sect Twelve Tribes under police investigation after dig for remains HANNAH SPARKSAbout regionalSeptember 26, 2020A lengthy NSW Police investigation into religious sect Twelve Tribes is expected to continue for several more months.Strike Force Nanegai was established in September 2019 following allegations of unreported stillborn children. It is illegal not to report the births of […]
Former QAnon Followers Explain What Drew Them In - And Got Them Out September 28, 2020
Like those leaving cults, some people who believe in conspiracy theories like QAnon and Pizzagate can break free from their beliefsEJ DicksonRolling StoneSeptember 23, 2020Jitarth Jadeja is a hirsute man in his early thirties, charming and jovial, speaking with equal effusiveness about economics and his baby niece. He’s an atheist, pro-choice and pro-drug decriminalization, who […]
New York Threatens Orthodox Jewish Areas With Lockdown Over Virus September 28, 2020
Community leaders said residents have resisted the rules in part because of the influence of President Trump, whose views on masks have been embraced.Liam Stack and Joseph GoldsteinNew York TimesSeptember 25, 2020Facing a worrying spike in coronavirus cases in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, New York City health officials began carrying out emergency inspections at private religious […]
Donald Trump and His Followers: Are They a Cult? September 28, 2020
Politics, Psychiatry, and PsychoanalysisDonald Trump and His Followers: Are They a Cult?Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and others explore the issue.John Martin-Joy M.D.Psychology TodaySeptember 27, 2020Is Trumpism a cult?This question, among other issues, has preoccupied certain psychiatrists and mental health professionals since Donald Trump rose to political prominence in 2016. How could one even begin to […]
QAnon: #7 Cults in the Occulture September 28, 2020
Joseph SzimhartCults in the OccultureSeptember 28, 2020[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXx1bay0Khg]"I express my views on QAnon, the now notorious pro-Trump Internet conspiracy fad that had bled over into a pseudo reality that people believe. Families have been torn apart, ex- Qs claim it’s a brainwashing cult, and people on the religious right and left are being manipulated from […]
CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/28/2020 September 28, 2020
Shincheonji Church of Jesus, Korea, Church of the Last Testament, Legal, Russia, QAnonRNS: Shincheonji's latest plasma donation raises questions on treatment from South Korean government "... Over 1,100 congregants of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus donated their blood plasma in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Their contribution was so significant that the Korea Center […]
Clare Bronfman, Facing Sentencing, Refuses to Disavow 'Sex Cult' Leader September 28, 2020
Ms. Bronfman will be the first defendant in the Nxivm case to be sentenced. Prosecutors have asked for five years in prison. Nicole HongThe New York TimesSeptember 28, 2020 For more than a decade, Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, devoted her life to supporting a self-help group called Nxivm. She quit her […]
Matthew Gong, gay Mormon, reflects on his journey from inner war to inner peace September 28, 2020
Peggy Fletcher StackSalt Lake Tribune September 28, 2020Matthew Gong is a minority three times over — in his own words — “Chinese American, Mormon and queer.”All three parts of Gong’s identity have shaped him, including heroic tales of service and sacrifice, and are worth celebrating.Still, they often have warred within the psyche of this 29-year-old, leaving […]
Is Ramtha Real? September 27, 2020
Cults in the OccultureJoseph Szimhart"After my video on Channeling someone asked me to address Ramtha channeled by JZ Knight since 1977. I use the book Finding Enlightenment by J Gordon Melton (1997) as reference in which Melton tries to describe and explain the new Gnostic teachings of Ramtha. Melton arranged for Stanley Krippner, a parapsychologist […]
Visit Houston's Hidden Secrets: Oddities in the Bayou City! September 25, 2020
Jacob Tate The Rice Thresher September 8, 2020"After I submitted my college applications as a senior in high school, an odd sensation overcame me. I felt glad and freed, of course, but I also felt a little pit in my stomach as I realized that the schoolwork I’d dedicated the last three and a half years of […]
White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals September 24, 2020
Jordana Rosenfeld High Country News September 23, 2020Amanda J. Lucia320 pages, softcover: $29.95University of California Press, 2020.In a geodesic dome in Joshua Tree, California, hundreds of festival-goers assemble for a workshop on prānāyāma, an ancient Hindu breathing practice. Amid an acoustic blend of drumming, chanting and birdsong, a workshop leader, flanked by “guardians” dressed in white, instructs […]
Can you help with a research survey on cults for the Family Survival Trust? September 24, 2020
Request to participate in research."As you may know, one of the aims of The Family Survival Trust is to improve UK law regarding the problem of cults and cultic control.As part of this work we are launching a survey of ex-cult members’ experiences in the UK.If you have direct experience of being in a cult in […]
The Last Shakers? September 21, 2020
Keeping the faith in a community facing extinction Katherine LuckyCommonweal MagazineNovember 28, 2019Sabbathday Lake, Maine, is home to the last community of Shakers on earth. Their sect, formally known as the United Society of Shakers, is well over two hundred years old. When I visited Sabbathday Lake in the summer of 2017, I met the […]
CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/18/2020 September 21, 2020
The Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants, Legal, QAnon, Wicca, Tvind Vice: Cops Raided and Shut Down the Only Magic Mushroom 'Church' in the U.S."The Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants in Oakland, California, was the most prominent "magic mushroom club" in the United States, if not the country's only brick-and-mortar venue for purchasing psilocybin.But that all ended […]
CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/21/2020 September 21, 2020
Jehovah's Witnesses, Legal, David Lynch Foundation, Transcendental Meditation, NXIVM, Rajneeshpuram BELGIUM: Jehovah's Witnesses face trial for hate crimes on February 16, 2021"For a period of five years, the court investigated complaints from ex-members of the Jehovah's Witnesses. They testified about how they were rejected by order of the organization and became completely isolated socially.The Ghent prosecutor's […]
How fundamentalist Mormons recovered after the trauma of Warren Jeffs September 21, 2020
Jana RiessReligion News ServiceSeptember 16, 2020 (RNS) — This week I want to introduce you to an outstanding new podcast that takes listeners behind the scenes of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The polygamist sect’s members and ex-members in southern Utah and northern Arizona are still recovering from the trauma […]
Legal Ayahuasca Churches Are Spreading Across Canada September 21, 2020
A sixth religious group in Canada has been granted an exemption to use the hallucinogenic tea, known for causing visions and vomiting, as part of its ceremonies.Rachel BrowneVICESeptember 17, 2020A church in Winnipeg, Manitoba just became the latest to get a government exemption to legally import and use daime tea, known as ayahuasca, VICE News […]
CultNEWS101 Articles: 9/19-20/2020 September 21, 2020
Sexual Abuse, Dhammakaya, Thailand, Alt-Catholics, Cult Murder, PanamaBoston Herald: 11 victims who claim Lawrence priest sexually abused them settle for $1.4M: Mitchell Garabedian"A Catholic order has agreed to pay nearly $1.4 million to 11 "courageous" clergy sexual abuse victims who claimed that a Lawrence priest abused them in the 1970s, their lawyer announced on Thursday.Boston attorney […]