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Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico, California.
Her research focuses on cults and controversial groups, specializing in charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control.
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- Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships (2006), ISBN 0-9720021-5-4, with Madeleine Tobias (2nd ed. of Captive Hearts, Captive Minds)
- Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults (2004), ISBN 0-520-23194-5
- Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field (2001), ISBN 0-8020-4373-9, contributor
- “Crazy” Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? (1996), ISBN 0-7879-0278-0, with Margaret Singer
- Cults in Our Midst (1995), ISBN 0-7879-0051-6, with Margaret Singer
- Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Abusive Relationships (1994), ISBN 0-89793-145-9
[edit] Articles
- "Repairing The Soul After A Cult Experience", CSNetwork Magazine, Spring 1996, pp. 30-33
- "Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven's Gate", Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 3, No.3
- "The Cadre Ideal: Origins and Development of a Political Cult", Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 9, No.1
- Introduction: "We Own Her Now", Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 14, No.1
- "Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults", Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.14, No.1
- "Women Under the Influence: A Study of Women's Lives in Totalist Groups", Guest Editor, Special issue, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.14, No.1
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