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Client cult
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Client cult is a term used in sociology of religion for religions which model themselves on, and use practices resembling or inspired by, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and psychiatry. They may also be known as therapy cults.
Examples of groups which have been labeled client cults include the Church of Scientology[citation needed] and the early stages of the Process Church of the Final Judgment[citation needed].
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- APA taskforce on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control
- sociology of religion
- clinical psychology
- psychotherapy
- psychoanalysis
- psychiatry
- Resources
- Articles
- Report of the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, see section entitled: "Psychotherapy Cults"
- Renee Fredrickson, Ph.D., L.P., testimony before Minnesota Board of Psychology
- Prosecuting an Ex-Cult Member's Undue Influence Suit, Lawrence Levy, J.D., Sherman Oaks, California
- "Psychotherapy Cults", Margaret Singer, Ph.D., Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph.D., & Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.
- "Psychotherapy Cults: An Ethical Analysis", Kim Boland and Gordon Lindbloom, Ph.D., Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
- "Clinical Update on Cults", Psychiatric Times, Michael Langone, Ph.D., July 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 7
- Iatrogenic symptoms associated with a therapy cult: examination of an extinct "new psychotherapy" with respect to psychiatric deterioration and "brainwashing"., Psychiatry. 1984 Nov;47(4):366-77, John Hochman, M.D.
- Insane Therapy: Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult, Marybeth F. Ayella, 1998
- Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work?, Margaret Singer, Ph.D. and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., 1996.
- Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult, by William Sims Bainbridge, 1978
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