BW Books
Books on Brainwashing and Thought Reform
Books on Cults and Therapy
Other Books on similiar topics
Magazine Articles
Books on Brainwashing and Thought Reform
Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing.
Sargant, William. Doubleday, Garden City, New York. 1957.
Coercive Persuasion. Schein, Edgar H., with Inge Schneier and
Curtis H. Barker. W. W. Norton, New York. 1961.
Influence: The New Psychology of Modern Persuasion. Cialdini,
Robert B. William Morrow, New York. 1984.
Obedience to Authority. Milgram, Stanley. New York 1983.
ISBN 0-06-131983-X.
Rape of the Mind. Meerloo, Joost A. Grosset & Dunlap, New York.
1961.
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind
Control. Marks, John. Times Books, New York. 1979.
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A study of
"Brainwashing" in China. Lifton, Robert J. W. W. Norton, New
York. 1961.
Thought Reform of the Chinese Intellectuals. Chen, Theodore H.
E. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 1960. (A pretty
book; neat and precise like a well-written poem.)
Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults. Enroth, Ronald.
Zondervan Press, Kentwood, Michigan. 1977.
Books on Cults and Therapy
All God's Children: The Cult Experience; Salvation or Slavery?
Stoner, C., and J. Parke. Chilton Books, Radnor, Pennsylvania.
1977.
Combatting Cult Mind Control. Hassan, Steven. Park Street Press,
Rochester, Vermont. 1990.
Cult Proofing your Kids. Martin, Paul. Grand Rapids, Mich. 1993.
ISBN 0-310-53761-4.
Cults and Consequences: The Definitive Handbook. Andres, Rachel,
and Lane, James R., eds. Jewish Federation of Greater Los
Angeles, Los Angeles. 1988.
Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise. Appel, Willa. Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, New York. 1983.
Cults in Our Midst: the hidden menace in our everyday lives. Singer,
Margaret Thaler. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco. 1995.
Cults of Unreason. Evans, Dr. Christopher. Delta, New York.
1973.
Dealing with Destructive Cults. Cooper, John and Una McManus.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 1984, ISBN 0-310-70281-X
Destructive Cult Conversion: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Clark, John G., et al. American Family Foundation, Weston,
Massachusetts. 1981.
Let Our Children Go! Patrick, Ted, with Tom Dulack. Thomas
Congdon Books/E. P. Dutton, New York. 1976.
Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up. Levine, Saul
V, M.D. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, Florida. 1984.
Recovery from Cults. Langone, Michael D. USA 1993. ISBN 0-393-70164-6.
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change. Conway,
Flo, and Jim Siegelman. Delta/J. B. Lippincott, New York. 1979.
Strange Gods. Bromley, David G., and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Beacon
Press, Boston. 1981.
The True Believer: thoughts on the nature of mass movements. Eric Hoffer.
Perennial Library, New York. 1989.
Other Materials
Brave New World. Huxley, Aldous.
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. Bugliosi,
Vincent, with Curt Gentry. W. W. Norton/Bantam, New York.
1975. (Was Manson a Scientologist?)
The Hidden Persuaders. Packard, Vance. David McKay, New York.
1965.
Mein Kampf. Hitler, Adolph.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell, George. Penguin, Middlesex,
England. 1954.
The Occult Establishment. Webb, James. La Salle 1976.
ISBN 0-912050-56-X.
The Organization Man. Whyte, William H. Simon & Schuster, New
York. 1956.
The Third Reich of Dreams. Beradt, Charlotte. Quadrangle Books,
Chicago. 1966.
Selected Magazine and Periodical References
"Coming Out of the Cults." Singer, Margaret Thaler. Psychology
Today, January 1979.
"How Cults Bilk Us All." Williams, Carson. Reader's Digest,
November 1979.
Information Disease: Have Cults Created a New Mental Illness?" Conway, Flo, and Jim Siegelman. Science Digest, January 1982.
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