15 VOLUME 6 |ISSUE 3 |2015
About the Authors
Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq., a graduate
of Columbia College and Columbia
Law School (LLB, Phi Beta Kappa,
Columbia Law Review, 1956) and
of Counsel with Jenkens &Gilchrist
Parker Chapin, LLP, was one of the
nation’s leading authorities on cults
from the late 1970s until his death in
2003. In addition to providing countless pro bono services,
he represented or advised clergy, former members, families,
professionals, and others involved in cult-related suits was
counsel for the New York City Jewish Community Relations
Council Task Force on Cults and Missionaries and the New
York Interfaith Coalition of Concern About Cults and from
1988 until his death in 2003 served as president of the
American Family Foundation (AFF—renamed International
Cultic Studies Association in 2004). Herb was interviewed
widely by the national and international press, spoke to
hundreds of lay and professional organizations, and testified
to congressional committees. In 1992 he was Executive in
Residence at the School of Business, Indiana University. In
1995 he delivered a commencement address, Promises and
Illusions, to the graduating class of the State University of
New York’s Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. In 2002
he was a guest lecturer on cult issues at universities and
institutions in China.
Michael D. Langone, PhD, received
a doctorate in Counseling Psychology
from the University of California,
Santa Barbara in 1979. Since 1981
he has been Executive Director of
International Cultic Studies Association
(ICSA). He was the founding editor
of Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ) the
editor of CSJ’s successor, Cultic Studies
Review and editor of Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims
of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (an alternate of the
Behavioral Science Book Service). He is coauthor of Cults:
What Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related
Violence: What You Should Know. Dr. Langone, ICSA Today’s
Editor-in-Chief, has been the chief designer and coordinator
of ICSA’s international conferences, which have taken
place in Barcelona, New York, Rome, Philadelphia, Geneva,
Denver, Brussels, Atlanta, Madrid, and Stockholm. In 1995,
he was honored as the Albert V. Danielsen visiting Scholar
at Boston University. He has authored numerous articles
in professional journals and books, and spoken widely to
dozens of lay and professional groups, including the Society
for the Scientific Study of Religion American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division American
Group Psychotherapy Association American Psychological
Association the Carrier Foundation various university
audiences and numerous radio and television stations,
including the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC 20/20.
Russell H. Bradshaw, EdD [AB
(Wesleyan University), EdM, EdD
(Harvard University), Cand. Polit.
(University of Oslo)] recently retired as
Associate Professor at Lehman College,
City University of New York. He has
taught psychological and historical
foundations of education and directed
the MA program in Teaching Social Studies: 7–12. Dr.
Bradshaw’s master’s and doctoral dissertations described
alternative-living and child-care arrangements in Sweden
(Samhem and Kollektivhus). During his undergraduate
studies he received a stipendium to live in Samoa and wrote
his honors thesis on religion’s effect on cultural stability
and change in Western Samoan villages. Dr. Bradshaw’s
continuing interest in alternative living and child-care
solutions led him to an intensive experience of a Hindu-
based religious cult in New York City. Dr. Bradshaw has
received fellowships and grants from Wesleyan, Harvard, and
Uppsala (Sweden) universities and from the City University
of New York. He and his wife Gunilla currently live in
Norrtälje, Sweden where they are continuing their work for
ICSA’s New York Educational Outreach Committee.
Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP,
ICSA President, is Past-President
of the American Academy of
Counseling Psychology and the
Greater Philadelphia Society of
Clinical Hypnosis. He is a licensed
and Board-certified counseling
psychologist whose involvement in
cultic studies began with a participant-observation study
of Unification Church training in its Eastern seminary (in
Barrytown, NY) in the spring of 1975. To date, his doctoral
dissertation is the only intensive, quantified observation of
a deprogramming. He was honored with AFF’s 1990 John G.
Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies
for this study, which was published as a special issue of the
Cultic Studies Journal and has been translated into several
foreign languages. In 1983, along with Dr. Linda Dubrow-
Marshall and clinical social worker Roberta Eisenberg, Dr.
Eichel founded the Re-Entry Therapy, Information &Referral
Network (RETIRN), one of the field’s oldest continuing
private providers of psychological services to families and
individuals harmed by cultic practices. RETIRN currently has
offices in Newark, DE, Lansdowne, PA, Pontypridd, Wales,
and Buxton, England (UK). In addition to his psychology
practice and his involvement with ICSA, Dr. Eichel is active
in a range of professional associations. He has coauthored
several articles and book reviews on cult-related topics for
the CSJ/CSR. n
About the Authors
Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq., a graduate
of Columbia College and Columbia
Law School (LLB, Phi Beta Kappa,
Columbia Law Review, 1956) and
of Counsel with Jenkens &Gilchrist
Parker Chapin, LLP, was one of the
nation’s leading authorities on cults
from the late 1970s until his death in
2003. In addition to providing countless pro bono services,
he represented or advised clergy, former members, families,
professionals, and others involved in cult-related suits was
counsel for the New York City Jewish Community Relations
Council Task Force on Cults and Missionaries and the New
York Interfaith Coalition of Concern About Cults and from
1988 until his death in 2003 served as president of the
American Family Foundation (AFF—renamed International
Cultic Studies Association in 2004). Herb was interviewed
widely by the national and international press, spoke to
hundreds of lay and professional organizations, and testified
to congressional committees. In 1992 he was Executive in
Residence at the School of Business, Indiana University. In
1995 he delivered a commencement address, Promises and
Illusions, to the graduating class of the State University of
New York’s Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. In 2002
he was a guest lecturer on cult issues at universities and
institutions in China.
Michael D. Langone, PhD, received
a doctorate in Counseling Psychology
from the University of California,
Santa Barbara in 1979. Since 1981
he has been Executive Director of
International Cultic Studies Association
(ICSA). He was the founding editor
of Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ) the
editor of CSJ’s successor, Cultic Studies
Review and editor of Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims
of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (an alternate of the
Behavioral Science Book Service). He is coauthor of Cults:
What Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related
Violence: What You Should Know. Dr. Langone, ICSA Today’s
Editor-in-Chief, has been the chief designer and coordinator
of ICSA’s international conferences, which have taken
place in Barcelona, New York, Rome, Philadelphia, Geneva,
Denver, Brussels, Atlanta, Madrid, and Stockholm. In 1995,
he was honored as the Albert V. Danielsen visiting Scholar
at Boston University. He has authored numerous articles
in professional journals and books, and spoken widely to
dozens of lay and professional groups, including the Society
for the Scientific Study of Religion American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division American
Group Psychotherapy Association American Psychological
Association the Carrier Foundation various university
audiences and numerous radio and television stations,
including the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC 20/20.
Russell H. Bradshaw, EdD [AB
(Wesleyan University), EdM, EdD
(Harvard University), Cand. Polit.
(University of Oslo)] recently retired as
Associate Professor at Lehman College,
City University of New York. He has
taught psychological and historical
foundations of education and directed
the MA program in Teaching Social Studies: 7–12. Dr.
Bradshaw’s master’s and doctoral dissertations described
alternative-living and child-care arrangements in Sweden
(Samhem and Kollektivhus). During his undergraduate
studies he received a stipendium to live in Samoa and wrote
his honors thesis on religion’s effect on cultural stability
and change in Western Samoan villages. Dr. Bradshaw’s
continuing interest in alternative living and child-care
solutions led him to an intensive experience of a Hindu-
based religious cult in New York City. Dr. Bradshaw has
received fellowships and grants from Wesleyan, Harvard, and
Uppsala (Sweden) universities and from the City University
of New York. He and his wife Gunilla currently live in
Norrtälje, Sweden where they are continuing their work for
ICSA’s New York Educational Outreach Committee.
Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP,
ICSA President, is Past-President
of the American Academy of
Counseling Psychology and the
Greater Philadelphia Society of
Clinical Hypnosis. He is a licensed
and Board-certified counseling
psychologist whose involvement in
cultic studies began with a participant-observation study
of Unification Church training in its Eastern seminary (in
Barrytown, NY) in the spring of 1975. To date, his doctoral
dissertation is the only intensive, quantified observation of
a deprogramming. He was honored with AFF’s 1990 John G.
Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies
for this study, which was published as a special issue of the
Cultic Studies Journal and has been translated into several
foreign languages. In 1983, along with Dr. Linda Dubrow-
Marshall and clinical social worker Roberta Eisenberg, Dr.
Eichel founded the Re-Entry Therapy, Information &Referral
Network (RETIRN), one of the field’s oldest continuing
private providers of psychological services to families and
individuals harmed by cultic practices. RETIRN currently has
offices in Newark, DE, Lansdowne, PA, Pontypridd, Wales,
and Buxton, England (UK). In addition to his psychology
practice and his involvement with ICSA, Dr. Eichel is active
in a range of professional associations. He has coauthored
several articles and book reviews on cult-related topics for
the CSJ/CSR. n
