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a holding environment which may enable the parents to contain their fears of losing contact
or custody of their child.
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(Portland) Oregonian, and Time.
Halberstadt, A., &MandeL L. (1989). Group psychotherapy with Soviet immigrants. In
Group psychodynamics. New paradigms and new perspectives. Chicago: Yearbook
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religion, sect and cult. Littleton, MA. John Wright-PSG.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to express his appreciation to Arnold Markowitz, CSW Shelley Rosen,
CSW and Jay Marson, CSW, and to the staff of the Cult Hotline and Clinic of the Jewish
Board of Family and Children‟s Services of New York, Inc.
David A. Halperin, M.D, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, is the editor of Psychodynamic perspectives on religion, sect and cult. He is also
the Director of the Group Psychotherapy Program, Roosevelt Hospital St. Luke‟s-Roosevelt
Hospital Center in New York City and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the Cult Hotline and Clinic
of the Jewish Board of Family and Children‟s Services of New York City, Inc.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1989, Volume 6,
Number 1, pages 76-85. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
a holding environment which may enable the parents to contain their fears of losing contact
or custody of their child.
References
Child‟s beating death reveals abuse in Oregon cult. In Cult Awareness Network News,
November 1988, p. 1. This article summarizes material from the Washington Post, The
(Portland) Oregonian, and Time.
Halberstadt, A., &MandeL L. (1989). Group psychotherapy with Soviet immigrants. In
Group psychodynamics. New paradigms and new perspectives. Chicago: Yearbook
Medical.
Halperin, DA. (1983). Introduction. In DA Halperin (Ed.), Psychodynarnic perspectives on
religion, sect and cult. Littleton, MA. John Wright-PSG.
KandeL R.F. (1988). Litigating the cult-related child custody case. Cultic Studies Journal, 5,
122-32.
Markowitz, A., &Halperin, D. A. (1988). Cults and children: The abuse of the young. In G.
Eisenberg (Ed.), Smashing the idols. A Jewish inquiry into the cult phenomenon. New
York: Jason Aronson.
Robbins, T., &Anthony, D. (1982). Cults, culture, and community. In F. Kaslow &M.B.
Sussman (Eds.), Cults and the family. New York: Haworth.
Rochford, E.B. (1985). Hare Krishna in America. New Brunswick: Rutgers.
Rubenstein, I.H. (1981). Law on Cults. Chicago: Ordain.
West, LJ., &Singer, M.T. (1980). Cults, quacks and nonprofessional psychotherapies. In H.
Kaplan, A. Freedman, &B. Sadock (Fds.), Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. 111.
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.
Wooden, K (1981). 77te children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Acknowledgements
The author would like to express his appreciation to Arnold Markowitz, CSW Shelley Rosen,
CSW and Jay Marson, CSW, and to the staff of the Cult Hotline and Clinic of the Jewish
Board of Family and Children‟s Services of New York, Inc.
David A. Halperin, M.D, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, is the editor of Psychodynamic perspectives on religion, sect and cult. He is also
the Director of the Group Psychotherapy Program, Roosevelt Hospital St. Luke‟s-Roosevelt
Hospital Center in New York City and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the Cult Hotline and Clinic
of the Jewish Board of Family and Children‟s Services of New York City, Inc.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1989, Volume 6,
Number 1, pages 76-85. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
