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Just one touch : a slow burn novel
\"Raised in a strict religious cult since she was a young girl, Jenna has no connection to the outside world beyond vague flashes of memory that seem to be from another life. Memories she clings to when the cult leaders discover her extraordinary ability to heal--and punish her. Years held captive and forced to do the cult's bidding have turned Jenna into a meek, timid woman ... or so they think. In truth, she is merely biding her time, waiting for the perfect moment to escape. When a terrified young woman tries to steal the SUV of Devereaux Security's toughest recruit, Isaac's anger quickly turns into a strange sort of protectiveness for the beautiful, bruised stranger. But when they are caught in a firestorm of bullets and Isaac is hit, he's sure the end is near, until Jenna touches him and closes his wounds. As he tries to bring Jenna to safety, she refuses to tell him what danger haunts her or how she healed him, but Isaac vows to do whatever it takes to gain her trust ... and her heart. Because with just one touch, Isaac knows he wants Jenna to be his--forever.\"--Back cover.
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Career Experiences of Ex-Cult Members
With over 2.5 million people involved in cults in the United States, some ex-cult members may present for mental health or vocational counseling services upon leaving a cult. For ex-cult members who have participated in rehabilitation services, some report that their counselors were ill-prepared to understand their unique circumstances. Cults are a worldwide phenomenon that impact the lives of thousands of men, women, and children. Often, the effects of cult membership negatively impact the psychological, financial, educational, and familial aspects of the member's life. However, research about the post-cult experiences for former members is sparse. Specifically, how cult membership impacts one's career has been very limited to a handful of studies in the past few decades. The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of cult involvement on future employment for ex-cult members. Former members of four cults were interviewed to identify the unique essence of the career experiences of individuals who obtain employment after leaving a cult. As a result of the interviews, seven essential themes were identified including hiding the past, fear, application difficulties, difficulty obtaining employment, inability to maintain employment, talking it out, and symptoms of psychiatric disabilities. Additional research sub-questions were explored that identified opportunities for counselors and rehabilitation counselors to intervene to improve the lives of ex-members of cults.
Journal Article
Scarred : the true story of how I escaped NXIVM, the cult that bound my life
\"Follows actress Sarah Edmondson's account of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, founded by Keith Raniere. It narrates in detail the 12 years she spent within the organization, during which [time] she enrolled over 2,000 members, chronicling her breaking point and her harrowing fight to get out, help others, and heal\"--Publisher marketing.
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Life after Centrepoint : accounts of adult adjustment after childhood spent at an experimental community
Explores how former child members of the controversial New Zealand community, or cult, known as Centrepoint, in which child sexual abuse and drug use are known to have occurred, account for the effects of this on their adult lives. Analyses the narrative accounts of 29 participants to identify key areas of psychological adjustment they described after leaving the community. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Journal Article
The power and peril of cults
Many young people are taken into cults when they are at a vulnerable point in their life--uncertain of the future and looking for a sense of direction. Unlike established religions, cults take complete control over the lives of their members.
Journal Article
'The most horrible night of my life.' An ex-Jonestown believer on the pull of cults - and how his 5-year-old paid the ultimate price
A man, who was Jim Jones' lawyer, lost his child in the Jonestown mass suicide when he were barred from retrieving him. People join cults in a time of weakness when they need the familyhood that the cult brings to their lives. The lawyer accepts his failure for not understanding in time.
Magazine Article
A sex cult's ugly spin on empowerment: How NXIVM got smart women to abandon their judgment
Convicted on counts ranging from wire fraud conspiracy to sex trafficking, Keith Raniere was found guilty of crimes as striking in their breadth as the 120-year prison sentence he received for them last October. [...]even then the founder of NXIVM—an unholy blend of corrupt multi-level marketing company and sex cult, all drenched in the language of self-help and personal responsibility—did not face direct legal charges on his most notorious outrages, including having his initials branded on women’s bodies. According to the court’s sentencing document, she also personally infected the computer used by her billionaire father, a perceived NXIVM enemy, with a virus that allowed the cult to read Edgar Bronfman’s emails.
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