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Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse Paperback – June 17, 1995

by Michael D. Langone (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
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Drawing upon the clinical expertise of professionals and the personal experiences of those formerly involved in high-intensity mind-control groups, this book is a comprehensive guide to the cult experience.

Michael Langone and his colleagues provide practical guidelines for helping former cult members manage the problems they encounter when leaving cults.
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    434 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    W. W. Norton & Company
  4. Publication date
    June 17, 1995
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    5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0393313212
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0393313215
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Drawing upon the clinical expertise of professionals and the personal experiences of those formerly involved in high-intensity mind-control groups, this book is a comprehensive guide to the cult experience. Michael Langone and his colleagues provide practical guidelines for helping former cult members manage the problems they encounter when leaving cults.

About the Author

Michael Langone lives in southern Florida.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; (1995) ed. edition (June 17, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393313212
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393313215
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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Samantha McGuire Wlazlak
5.0 out of 5 stars Life-Saving Information!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2020
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This book helped raise my awareness of how vicious and manipulative people can truly be and how other people you let into your life can effect your mind, body, soul, and emotional state if you are not aware of certain red flags that manipulators tend to use. This book is truly a life-saver and I'm glad to have it in my home library to refer to as needed.
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Will
5.0 out of 5 stars couldn't put it down
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013
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i don't have other books to compare this to, but found this book very interesting and well written. Mike Langone is the editor in that he has a number of writers write different chapters. this book spoke to how cults work, who joins, how people leave, and most of all, how to help ex-cult members. Well done!
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A Fellow Buyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Most Beneficial
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012
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This book is very beneficial to anyone coming out of a cult - both secular and spiritual. It helps the reader see how they got trapped into it and how to 'detox' their mind from it so they can live a healthy lifestyle.
I would caution that this book covers a whole gambit of cults that may not apply to all readers, so you will have to extract information that applies to your situation.
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Carla
4.0 out of 5 stars Help yourself heal
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2013
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A cult can be a group or just one person. If you are a person who is recovering from a "controlling relationship" or an actual cult, this is a great resource. The book helps break down into digestible chunks the tools you need in order to gain insight for your own situation. It helps the survivor (or loved one of a survivor) navigate through the healing process and also explains how controlling groups/individuals operate. The book explains how even the brightest of individuals can be manipulated by factions or persons that do not have your best interest at heart. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has or does suffer from any type of cultish abuse/mind control/spiritual abuse, etc. Healing is a process and this book should be in every survivors healing arsenal.
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Ken Garrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2015
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Extensive, multi-disciplinary, highly informative, readable. Highly recommended for anyone wanted to dig a bit deeper into the phenomena of abusive churches/groups, cults, etc. The chapter on abusive religious groups by Dr. Paul Martin is worth the price of the book.
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LTD
5.0 out of 5 stars A 5 star book!
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2013
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This book clearly and concisely helped me understand how an abusive man can control and manipulate a woman in a relationship. The cultish behavior does not just take place in cults. Many interpersonal relationships include this type of behavior so another person can exert control over another. The Three D's in cults are: Deception, Dependency, and Dread. Read it and it will help you begin the cult deprogramming and put the controller out of your mind and life, so you can live again.
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S. E. West
5.0 out of 5 stars A great help
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2013
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I think its so important to be better equipped to help poeple who have been through a cult experience and this book fit's the bill it's very easy to understand and gives a very comprehensive treatment to this issue
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Rj
4.0 out of 5 stars The Occult
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2011
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This is not an easy read especially for anyone whom has just been accosted by the occult or has just left a cult. The book is edited by Micheal D. Langone yet has several other authors as well. For those who have recent trauma coupled with concentration difficulties, one will not be able to understand concepts as clearly. However, the book gives vital information such as anything can be "cult" when the organization, church, business, home life, therapy, mantra, daycare center etc. is rooted in mind control, which begins with deception, dependency then dread. The bottom line is the occult can happen anywhere and it is not all about the cliche of "horns and hooves" yet is inherently evil.
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Ms. Linda K. Berkeley
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2019
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Really useful for my work.
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