CONTENTS
Cultic Abuse Recovery: Counseling Considerations
Rachel Oblak .............................................................................................................................................1
Contextualizing Debates About Brainwashing Within the Discipline of Sociology
Stephen A. Kent and Kelsey Lindquist .............................................................................................14
Homeopathy As a Form of Practical Magic
Jonathan Simmons................................................................................................................................ 32
Ritual Abuse and Developmental Trauma: Application of the Triphasic Model of
Trauma Treatment in the Case of “Sarah”
Cortny Stark............................................................................................................................................... 41
Book and Film Reviews
Stephen B. Mutch ....................................................................................................................................53
Counterculture Crossover: Growing Up in the Love Family (Rachel Israel)
Reviewer: Joseph Szimhart ..................................................................................................................81
Failure to Launch Rather Than Clear Sailing: The Media-Focused Trials, Triumphs,
and Tribulations of the Church of Scientology in Australia
Gillie Jenkinson......................................................................................................................................... 72
Transcendental Deception: Behind the TM curtain—bogus science, hidden
agendas, and David Lynch’s campaign to push a million public school kids into
Transcendental Meditation while falsely claiming it is not a religion (Aryeh
Siegel)
Reviewer: Robert W. Balch...................................................................................................................... 84
Abstracts (Translations) ......................................................................................................................97
Leaving Psychologically—Breaking the Confluential Trance
Blackbird – A Memoir: The Story of a Woman Who Submitted to Marcial Maciel,
Became Free, and Found Happiness Again (Elena Sada)
The People &the Idiots: Surviving a Cult Childhood (Daniel Hawes)
Reviewer: J. Paul Lennon....................................................................................................................... 91
Reviewer: Joseph Szimhart.................................................................................................................. 93

International Journal of Cultic Studies ■ Vol. 10, 2019 i
International Journal of Cultic Studies
Co-Editors
Carmen Almendros, PhD, Associate Professor in Clinical and Health Psychology, Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid, Spain
Dianne Casoni, PhD, Full Professor, École de criminologie, Université de Montréal Associate Professor
of Psychology, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Visiting Fellow, Criminal Justice Hub,
University of Salford, United Kingdom
About the International Journal of Cultic Studies
The International Journal of Cultic Studies (IJCS) is a refereed annual journal that publishes scholarly
research on cultic phenomena across a range of disciplines and professions with a view of making
research results available to researchers, practitioners, and policy makers across the world. IJCS seeks to
advance the understanding of cultic phenomena in their relationship to individuals, families, and society,
notably in their psychological, social, legal, educational, religious, and cultural dimensions.
Many definitions of the term cult exist, and the term has been applied to a wide range of groups.
However, the IJCS does not advocate nor support one particular definition and will consider submissions
related to the full range of perspectives on cultic phenomena and issues that emerge from a scholarly or
scientific study of such phenomena, including those of harm, treatment, individual subjectivity, agency,
creativity, and the boundaries between the individual and society.
IJCS publishes original empirical and theoretical work, as well as literature reviews, scholarly analyses,
book reviews, and case studies across academic disciplines and applied sciences, notably in anthropology,
criminology, ethics, the humanities, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, religious studies, and
sociology, accepting both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
The International Journal of Cultic Studies (IJCS) is published by the International Cultic Studies
Association (ICSA). As in most scholarly journals, the views expressed in IJCS are solely those of the
authors and do not reflect the views of IJCS’s editors and editorial boards or of ICSA and its directors,
advisory board members, or staff. Groups researched or mentioned in articles published in IJCS are not
necessarily cults, nor should they be seen as undoubtedly harmful.
ISSN: 2154-7270 (print) 2154-7289 (online)
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