Dr. Janja Lalich, PhD

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Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting… by Janja Lalich · Audiobook preview

PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAED8liDWzM Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over Authored by Janja Lalich, Karla McLaren Narrated by Kelly Burke #janjalalich #escapingutopiagrowingupinacultgettingoutandstartingover — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. 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 first of its kind focusing on this particular population. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR 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… — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAED8liDWzM Language: English Publisher: Routledge Published on: December 5, 2019 ISBN: 9780367405762 Duration: 7 hr, 20 min Genres: Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior, Political Science / General, Psychology / Movements / General, Psychology / Social Psychology, Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Science / Social Work, Social Science / Sociology / General

Twin Flames: Re-visiting Cults and High Control Organizations with Dr. Janja Lalich

Trigger Warning: The content of this production may be triggering, as it mentions verbal, physical and emotional abuse, cults, high control organizations and coercive behaviour. If you or your loved one is experiencing challenge, suffering or diffficulty in connection to a high control organization, please seek help, support and guidance. Just recently, the Emmy-nominated filmmakers behind Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult released a new three-part documentary series that seeks to expose The Twin Flames Universe, or TFU as a high control organization. Dr. Janja Lalich, an internationally renowned expert on cults and coercion and one of Harris and Walker's recent guests, is featured in the documentary. Harris and Walker of course binged the limited series, re-visited the fascinating chat they had with Dr. Lalich earlier this year, and dished about Twin Flames, NXIVM and Scientology in this brief, but juicy episode. Must Mentions Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion Sworn to Secrecy: Cults, Coercion and Breaking Free with Dr. Janja Lalich Sources Escaping Twin Flames Lalich, J. (2022) Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults. University of California Press. Eyal Regev. (2016). Early Christianity in Light of New Religious Movements. Numen, Vol. 63, No. 5/6 (2016), pp. 483-510 Valentine’s Day: a brief history of the soulmate – and why it’s a limited concept Leah Remini sues Church of Scientology for harassment and defamation What happened to Stephanie, the twin from 'Escaping Twin Flames'? ‘Escaping Twin Flames’ Is a Sinister Love Story for the Digital Age 15 Notorious Cults That Amazingly Still Exist Religion Versus Cult 13 of the World's Most Infamous Cults What NXIVM’s Recruitment Pitch Looked Like

03 Do 29/06/2023 'Bounded Choice: Who Is Accountable?' by Dr. Janja Lalich

Dr. Janja Lalich about 'Bounded Choice: Who Is Accountable?' Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Sociology, is an international authority on cults and coercion. Researcher, author, and educator, she specializes in the psycho- social dynamics of recruitment, indoctrination, and coercive methods of influence and control. She is Founder and President of the Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide life-saving resources to survivors of cults, programs in the Troubled Teen Industry, and narcissistic families or relationships.

Fielding Graduate University

Doctor of Philosophy

Fielding Graduate University

Master of Arts

Chief Executive Officer

Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion

Professor Emerita of Sociology

California State University Chico