Books
Memoirs, academic monographs, and investigative books covering cult-recovery and specific high-control groups.
15 resources. Use the full directory for multi-facet filtering, or browse other collections via the index.
- Combatting Cult Mind Control
Steven Hassan, 1988 (revised 2018). The foundational BITE Model book; CLCI Hub's core methodology source.
Book - Bounded Choice
Janja Lalich, 2004. Sociological framework explaining how members make 'real' choices that are nonetheless tightly bounded by group worldview and exit costs.
Book - Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships
Janja Lalich & Madeleine Tobias, 2006. Practical recovery workbook.
Book - Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright, 2013. Definitive journalistic history of Scientology.
Book - Educated
Tara Westover, 2018. Memoir of leaving a fundamentalist Mormon-adjacent family for academic life.
Book - The Storm Is Upon Us
Mike Rothschild, 2021. The definitive QAnon analysis.
Book - Unfollow
Megan Phelps-Roper, 2019. Memoir of leaving Westboro Baptist Church.
Book - Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Leah Remini, 2015. Personal account of leaving Scientology.
Book - Beyond Belief
Jenna Miscavige Hill, 2013. Memoir of leaving Scientology by the niece of David Miscavige.
Book - Daughter of Gloriavale
Lilia Tarawa, 2017. Memoir of leaving the Gloriavale Christian Community in New Zealand.
Book - The Family
Chris Johnston & Rosie Jones, 2016. Definitive account of Anne Hamilton-Byrne's Australian sect.
Book - Unorthodox
Deborah Feldman, 2012. Memoir of leaving the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg.
Book - The Reluctant Apostate
Lloyd Evans, 2017. Detailed insider account of leaving Jehovah's Witnesses.
Book - Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage
Pamela Saharah Dyson, 2020. Memoir documenting Yogi Bhajan's abuses inside 3HO.
Book - The Sullivanians
Alexander Stille, 2023. Definitive account of Saul Newton's Manhattan therapy cult.
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