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Acknowledgments
The author thanks Marny Hall for her sprightly and inspiring friendship, and Lowell Murphy
for his contribution to the title of this article. She also wishes to acknowledge all of her
clients --female and male --for their openness, courage, and capacity to carry on.
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Janja Lalich is an author, educator, and consultant in the field of cults and psychological
influence. Her most recent book is “Crazy” Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work?
(Jossey-Bass, 1996, coauthored with Margaret Thaler Singer). She is Education Director at
Community Resources on Influence &Control (CRIC) in Alameda, California, and may be
reached by E-mail at janja@crl.com.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1997, Volume 14,
Number 1, pages 4-21. 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.
Acknowledgments
The author thanks Marny Hall for her sprightly and inspiring friendship, and Lowell Murphy
for his contribution to the title of this article. She also wishes to acknowledge all of her
clients --female and male --for their openness, courage, and capacity to carry on.
**************************
Janja Lalich is an author, educator, and consultant in the field of cults and psychological
influence. Her most recent book is “Crazy” Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work?
(Jossey-Bass, 1996, coauthored with Margaret Thaler Singer). She is Education Director at
Community Resources on Influence &Control (CRIC) in Alameda, California, and may be
reached by E-mail at janja@crl.com.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1997, Volume 14,
Number 1, pages 4-21. 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.
