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Table of Contents
SINCERE: A Relational Safety Model for Counselors Working with Transgender and Gender
Diverse Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Ruby Cramer and Sarah Stillwell...........................................................................1
Pastor Sexual Exploitation of Adult Congregation Members
Jaime Simpson and Jodi Death ............................................................................18
An Investigation into the Efficacy of the PsychoSocial Quicksand Model™ and Its Utility for
Transforming Systems
Kate Amber and Roderick Dubrow-Marshall........................................................37
Do Prior Religious Beliefs Play A Role in Cult Susceptibility?:A Descriptive Study
Yasmin Ali Williams and Chitra Raghavan............................................................58
Jim Jones: Analysis of a Potential Psychopath
Elizabeth Franken and Wind Goodfriend...............................................................68
Scarcity as Latent Architecture: Parasociality, Digital In-Groups, and Cultic Radicalization
Zahra Choudhury....................................................................................................75
Understanding Women’s Experiences in Cultic Groups in QuébecThrough the Lens of Coercive
Control: A Qualitative Study
Andréa Lagorse.......................................................................................................90
The Price of Belief: Rational Choice, Libertarian Ideology, and Cult Advocacy
Luigi Corvaglia.......................................................................................................103
Book Review: Psychobiographies and Godly Visions: Disordered Minds and the
Origins of Religiosity By Stephen A. Kent.
Review by Dr. Cyrus Abbasian...............................................................................115
Intergenerational Transmission of Cult Trauma: The Impact on Child-Rearing of Cult-Created
Dissociation and a Cult-Created Harsh Conscience
Lorna Goldberg ......................................................................................................118

International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation Volume 9 2026 ii
Editor-in-Chief
Jackie Johnson, DSW
Executive Director, ICSA
Managing Editor
Navah A. Chestnut, Instructor of English
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Co-Editors
Carmen Almendros, PhD, Associate Professor in Clinical and Health Psychology
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, Professor, Psychologist and Co-Programme Leader MSc
Psychology of Coercive Control and Member, Centre for Research on Inclusive Society,
University of Salford, United Kingdom.
Stephen A. Kent, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Marie-Andrée Pelland, PhD, Full Professor and Director of the Sociology a
and Criminology Department
Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Omar Saldana, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Psychology
and Quantitative Psychology
University of Barcelona, Spain

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