Escaping Utopia by Lalich Janja; McLaren Karla;

Author:Lalich, Janja; McLaren, Karla;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

Notes

1.

Erving Goffman, Asylums (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1961).

2.

For a study of this phenomenon on a national scale, see Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951).

3.

For example, Jonestown, Aum Shinrikyo, the Manson Family, and the cult coauthor Janja was in, the Democratic Workers Party, to name a few.

4.

Frans De Waal, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society (New York: Harmony Books, 2009), 38–9.

5.

Louis J. West and Margaret T. Singer, “Cults, Quacks, and Nonprofessional Therapies,” in Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/III, Eds., Harold I. Kaplan, Alfred M. Freedman, and Benjamin J. Sadock (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1980), 3248.

6.

For an in-depth article on The Family’s teen-training program, see Stephen A. Kent and Deanna Hall, “Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family,” Cultic Studies Journal 17 (2000): 56–78. See also, Stephen A. Kent, “Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family,” Cultic Studies Journal 3, no. 1 (2004): 56–72.

7.

Paddy Kutz, “What Are the Effects of Child Abuse on the Brain?” Accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.newarkadvocate.com/fdcp/?unique=1334335352843.

8.

Ibid.

9.

Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and Maia Szalavitz, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 5. Also Chapter 3, “Stairway to Heaven” (57–80), describes Perry’s work with the children who were released from the Branch Davidian compound before the final conflagration, and is particularly relevant here.

10.

Ibid., 62–3.

11.

Ibid., 65.

12.

Shelly Rosen, “Cults: A Natural Disaster: Looking at Cults Through a Trauma Lens,” International Cultic Studies Journal, no. 5 (2014): 12–29.

13.

Ibid., 15.

14.

Ibid.

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