Janja Lalich, Karla Mclaren

Escaping Utopia (eBook, PDF)

Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich's original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book. The authors explore fundamental questions about human nature, human development, group dynamics, abuse and control, and triumphs of the human spirit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315295084
• Artikelnr.: 49258704

Autorenporträt

Janja Lalich is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in self-sealing systems (cults, terrorist groups, situations of undue influence, and ideological extremism), with a particular focus on recruitment, indoctrination, and methods of influence and control. She is Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State University, Chico and has been studying the social psychology of controversial groups and exploitative and abusive relationships for thirty years.Her publications include Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships (Bay Tree Press 2006) and Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults (University of California Press 2004).

Karla McLaren is an award-winning author and social science researcher who grew up in a New Age healing cult in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent publications include The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (Sounds True 2013) and The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (Sounds True 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. We Weren't There by Choice: Meeting Our Narrators 2. The Transcendent Belief System: Purity
Perfection
and the Eradication of Individuality 3. Charismatic Authority: Exhilarating Vision
Electrifying Charisma
and Total Domination 4. Systems of Control: Official Rules
Formal Structures
and Webs of Authority 5. Systems of Influence: Social Pressures
Rigid Expectations
and Constant Manipulation 6. Landing on Mars: Finding Their Way in an Alien World 7. Surviving and Thriving: Trauma
Resilience
And Integration