The views expressed in ICSA Today are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect
the views of ICSA Today’s editors or editorial boards or of ICSA’s directors, advisors, or staff. Groups
analyzed or mentioned in ICSA Today are not necessarily cults, nor are they necessarily harmful.
ICSA Today, Volume 6, No. 2, 2015
Editor-in-Chief
Michael D. Langone, PhD
Associate Editor
Ann Stamler, MA, MPhil
Arts Editor
Diana Pletts, MA
Book Review Editor
Livia Bardin, MSW
Family Editor
Lois Svoboda, MD, LMFT
Member Profiles Editor
Mary O’Connell
Mental Health Editor
Gillie Jenkinson, MA
Research Coeditors
Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD
Point of View -Q&A
William Goldberg, MSW, LCSW
Correspondents
Austria/Germany
Friedrich Griess
Eastern Europe
Piotr T. Nowakowski, PhD
French-Speaking Countries
Guillaume Garih, BA, LLL, JD
Italy
Dr. Cristina Caparesi
Dr. Raffaella Di Marzio
Nordic Countries
Noomi Andemark
Joni Valkila, PhD
Hilde Langvann
Håkan Järvå, MSc Psych
Spain and Latin America
Luis Santamaria, SThL
Erika Toren, MSEd
News Desk
Editorial Board
Writing Consultant
Sharon Hamm
Bios of ICSA Today editors can be found at
icsahome.com/elibrary/peopleprofiles
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P.O. Box 2265 • Bonita Springs, FL 34133
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Phone: 239.514.3081
Fax: 305.393.8193
ISSN: 2154-820X
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Above: Free (Polychromous color pencil), by Riaan Wilmans, from his book The Abyss of Power: Ex-cult
Art (Pretoria, South Africa, 2014)
Cover: New Life in a Heart of Stone (Pencil on paper), by Riaan Wilmans
2
Mental-Health Issues in
Cult-Related Interventions
J. Paul Lennon, Joseph Szimhart,
William Goldberg, and Daniel Shaw
22
Book Review
Lawrence A. Pile
26
Correspondents’ Reports
17
Visual Art
Riaan Wilmans 8
When Critical Thinking Doesn’t
Help: Why It Fails and How to
Make It Happen
Millard J. Melnyk
12
Mediating to Settle Conflicts
in Cultic Groups: Some Useful
Methodologies
Raffaella Di Marzio
30
News Desk
16
Editor’s Corner
Linda Dubrow-Marshall
Erratum: This is to acknowledge that in the About the Author section of “My Unexpected Journey”
by Cindy Kunsman, p. 12, ICSA Today, Vol. 6 No. 1, an inaccurate detail was inadvertently added to
the first sentence. The sentence should have read as follows: “Cynthia Mullen Kunsman (ASN,
BSN, Gwynedd Mercy College MMin, Chesapeake Bible College and Seminary ND, Clayton
College) is a nurse with a wide clinical teaching background who now serves as a consultant in
forensic medicine and toxicology.”
the views of ICSA Today’s editors or editorial boards or of ICSA’s directors, advisors, or staff. Groups
analyzed or mentioned in ICSA Today are not necessarily cults, nor are they necessarily harmful.
ICSA Today, Volume 6, No. 2, 2015
Editor-in-Chief
Michael D. Langone, PhD
Associate Editor
Ann Stamler, MA, MPhil
Arts Editor
Diana Pletts, MA
Book Review Editor
Livia Bardin, MSW
Family Editor
Lois Svoboda, MD, LMFT
Member Profiles Editor
Mary O’Connell
Mental Health Editor
Gillie Jenkinson, MA
Research Coeditors
Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD
Point of View -Q&A
William Goldberg, MSW, LCSW
Correspondents
Austria/Germany
Friedrich Griess
Eastern Europe
Piotr T. Nowakowski, PhD
French-Speaking Countries
Guillaume Garih, BA, LLL, JD
Italy
Dr. Cristina Caparesi
Dr. Raffaella Di Marzio
Nordic Countries
Noomi Andemark
Joni Valkila, PhD
Hilde Langvann
Håkan Järvå, MSc Psych
Spain and Latin America
Luis Santamaria, SThL
Erika Toren, MSEd
News Desk
Editorial Board
Writing Consultant
Sharon Hamm
Bios of ICSA Today editors can be found at
icsahome.com/elibrary/peopleprofiles
International Cultic Studies Association
P.O. Box 2265 • Bonita Springs, FL 34133
Website: icsahome.com
Email: mail@icsamail.com
Phone: 239.514.3081
Fax: 305.393.8193
ISSN: 2154-820X
Printed in the USA
Artists and poets retain copyright
of their works and grant ICSA permission
to reproduce them. Unless otherwise
indicated, all other material copyright
International Cultic Studies Association.
Table of Contents
Note to our readers regarding website addresses (URLs): For all http website addresses, such as
http://www.icsahome.com, ICSA Today uses only the shortened address form without the http
(icsahome.com). In all instances when the basic address is other than http, such as https or ftp,
we give the full address. Please keep this in mind when exploring sites mentioned in ICSA Today.
Above: Free (Polychromous color pencil), by Riaan Wilmans, from his book The Abyss of Power: Ex-cult
Art (Pretoria, South Africa, 2014)
Cover: New Life in a Heart of Stone (Pencil on paper), by Riaan Wilmans
2
Mental-Health Issues in
Cult-Related Interventions
J. Paul Lennon, Joseph Szimhart,
William Goldberg, and Daniel Shaw
22
Book Review
Lawrence A. Pile
26
Correspondents’ Reports
17
Visual Art
Riaan Wilmans 8
When Critical Thinking Doesn’t
Help: Why It Fails and How to
Make It Happen
Millard J. Melnyk
12
Mediating to Settle Conflicts
in Cultic Groups: Some Useful
Methodologies
Raffaella Di Marzio
30
News Desk
16
Editor’s Corner
Linda Dubrow-Marshall
Erratum: This is to acknowledge that in the About the Author section of “My Unexpected Journey”
by Cindy Kunsman, p. 12, ICSA Today, Vol. 6 No. 1, an inaccurate detail was inadvertently added to
the first sentence. The sentence should have read as follows: “Cynthia Mullen Kunsman (ASN,
BSN, Gwynedd Mercy College MMin, Chesapeake Bible College and Seminary ND, Clayton
College) is a nurse with a wide clinical teaching background who now serves as a consultant in
forensic medicine and toxicology.”
