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Lita Linzer Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Psychology at the Ogontz Campus
of Pennsylvania State University. She has written numerous books and articles on cults and
conversion. This paper was originally presented at the American Family Foundation annual
meeting at Stony Point, NY, in September 1990.
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