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Acknowledgment
I wish to thank Dr. David G. Bromley for receipt of and permission to quote from his in-
press manuscript, ―A Tale of Two Theories: Brainwashing and Conversion as Competing
Political Narratives.‖
A version of this article first appeared in AFF‘s Internet journal, www.cultsandsociety.com.
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Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., a counseling psychologist, is AFF‘s Executive Director. He is
the editor of Cultic Studies Journal and Recovery From Cults. He is co-author of Cults: What
Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related Violence: What You Should Know.
Dr. Langone has spoken and written widely about cults. In 1995 he was honored as the
Albert V. Danielsen visiting Scholar at Boston University. (dir@csj.org)
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