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Date: April 01, 2015 06:59PM
How about the recent book "Recovering Agency"? Richard Packham endorses it with 5 stars, I see, in his review of it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Recovering-Agency-Lifting-Mormon-Control/dp/1489595937/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8Ironically, I don't think psychologists or psychiatrists in general understand coercively controlling groups at all (or even really believe they exist) unless they have specialized in that area for some reason (as has social psychologist Philip Zimbardo of Stanford, for example).
I have a couple of close friends who are PhD psychologists and I have finally been able to start to get them to understand over the course of a couple of years of casual discussion...and they seem to only just barely grasp the issues at this point. One of the inter-related topics (undue influence, fraudulant marketing, cult tactic groups, social influence etc) will just naturally come up in conversation every now and then, when something to do with one of these groups is in the news. For example, recently, the Islamic State's recruiting, or the "Prison of Belief" movie (Scientology) that just came out are opportunities to talk about the tactics used by coercively controlling groups, how many of them there are, in all areas, religious, business, self -help, political...and of course the power of social influence.