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    • Coercive Persuasion As a Specific Type of Violence in Criminal Law
    • Cults and Media Stereotypes
    • "Dirty" Propaganda and The Church of Scientology
    • Echoes of Responsibility
    • Forward to IJCAM Special Issue
    • Getting the Ghet
    • Global Violence of Women in Cults
    • How can I trust someone who lives in the darkness?
    • Human Trafficking, Cults, & Coercion: The Use of Drugs as a Tool
    • I hereby and herein claim liberties
    • I was Taught to See Sexuality as Something Evil
    • Introduction - Comparative Reflections on Scientology and NXIVM
    • Introduction to IJCAM Conference Special Edition
    • Investigating Coercion, Abuse, Manipulation: Recognizing the Legacy of t
    • Jesus Built My Strawman
    • Late Twentieth-Century Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Sects and Cult
    • Narcissistic Sexual Predation
    • Preventing Predatory Alienation by High-Control Groups
    • Reflections on Offering a Therapeutic Creative Arts Intervention With Cult
    • Reinventing the Self: NXIVM’s Promises, Secrets, and Lies
    • Religion and State Authority: Control of the Child
    • Sovereign Citizens and QAnon
    • Synergy Between Cults and Terror Groups
    • Ten Seconds to Implosion: The Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion
    • The Eternal Commitment
    • The Grooming of Children for Sexual Abuse in Religious Settings
    • The Perfect Weed for this Spoiling Soil
    • The Power of Career Counseling: Preventing Sex Trafficking
    • The Social Phenomenon of Romana Didulo
    • The Theory That Won't Go Away
    • Unheard Voices
    • You're Going to Go Into Some Dark, Dark Places
  • Book Reviews
    • Leaving Christian Fundamentalism
    • Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM
    • When Narcissism Comes to Church
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      • Alone and Not Alone
      • A Ride With My Best Friend
      • Being Mindful of Mindfulness: Exploring the Dark Side
      • Coercive Persuasion As a Specific Type of Violence in Criminal Law
      • Cults and Media Stereotypes
      • "Dirty" Propaganda and The Church of Scientology
      • Echoes of Responsibility
      • Forward to IJCAM Special Issue
      • Getting the Ghet
      • Global Violence of Women in Cults
      • How can I trust someone who lives in the darkness?
      • Human Trafficking, Cults, & Coercion: The Use of Drugs as a Tool
      • I hereby and herein claim liberties
      • I was Taught to See Sexuality as Something Evil
      • Introduction - Comparative Reflections on Scientology and NXIVM
      • Introduction to IJCAM Conference Special Edition
      • Investigating Coercion, Abuse, Manipulation: Recognizing the Legacy of t
      • Jesus Built My Strawman
      • Late Twentieth-Century Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Sects and Cult
      • Narcissistic Sexual Predation
      • Preventing Predatory Alienation by High-Control Groups
      • Reflections on Offering a Therapeutic Creative Arts Intervention With Cult
      • Reinventing the Self: NXIVM’s Promises, Secrets, and Lies
      • Religion and State Authority: Control of the Child
      • Sovereign Citizens and QAnon
      • Synergy Between Cults and Terror Groups
      • Ten Seconds to Implosion: The Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion
      • The Eternal Commitment
      • The Grooming of Children for Sexual Abuse in Religious Settings
      • The Perfect Weed for this Spoiling Soil
      • The Power of Career Counseling: Preventing Sex Trafficking
      • The Social Phenomenon of Romana Didulo
      • The Theory That Won't Go Away
      • Unheard Voices
      • You're Going to Go Into Some Dark, Dark Places
    • Book Reviews
      • Leaving Christian Fundamentalism
      • Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM
      • When Narcissism Comes to Church
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Book Reviews

Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM the Cult That Bound My Life by (Sarah Edmondson) 

Reviewer: Robin Boyle-Laisure

First Published: June 4th, 2021

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Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Reconstruction of Identity (Josie McSkimming)

Reviewer: Daniel W. Phillips III 

First Published: January 30, 2020

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Wounded Faith: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse (Neil Damgaard)


Reviewer: Karen Roudkovski

First Published: January 30, 2020

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When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse (Chuck DeGroat)

Reviewer: Daniel W. Phillips III 

First Published: June 06, 2023

Full Text PDF 

International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM) is published by International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). Views expressed on ijcam.org are those of the document's author(s) and are not necessarily shared, endorsed, or recommended by IJCAM's or ICSA's editors, staff, or advisers.  IJCAM is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, online, open access, free annual journal.  Issues will be available as PDFs with all articles for that issue.  

* The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM) is a program of and is funded by the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization.
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