Resources

Sites

 

Reclamation Collective

Religious Trauma Institute

Codependents Anonymous - has some spiritual language

Recovery Dharma - bhuddist based, trauma informed, and no spiritual language

Podcasts

Critical Thinking 

Critical Reasoning for Beginners - Oxford University

Philosophy for Beginners - Oxford Univeristy

Project Hope Podcast with Jennifer French

Thinking Clearly - a podcast about critical thinking

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Savage Lovecast by Dan Savage

Relationships

Savage Lovecast by Dan Savage

Multiamory- rethinking modern relationships

Normalizing non-monoamy 

Cults

Cult Vault Podcast 

A Little Bit Culty

Sunday School Drop Outs

 

Books

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Trauma By Professor Gordon Turnbull

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

Healing the Shame that Binds you by John Bradshaw*

It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn

The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke

How To Do The Work by Nicole LePera

How to Meet Yourself by Nicole LePera

Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

 

Coercive Control

Brainwashing by Kathleen Taylor

Love, Terror, and Brainwashing by Alexandra Klein

Leaving Your Religion by James Mulholland

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

Coercive Control by Evan Stark

The Science of Social Influence by Anthony R. Pratkanis

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton

Influence by Dr. Robert Cialdini

Cults in our Midst by Margaret Singer

 

 

Religious Trauma Syndrome

Understanding Religious Trauma Syndrome - a paper

Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell

 

Grief/Loss

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fischer

Love, Terror, & Brainwashing by Alexandra Klein

Healing After Loss by Martha W. Hickman

Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss

 

Relationships

Coping with Cult Involvement by Livia Bardin, L.S.W.

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families By John Friel, PhD., and Linda Friel, PhD.

An Adult Child's Guide to What is Normal by John Friel, PhD., and Linda Friel, PhD.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.

Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.

A Smart Girls Guide to Polyamory by Dedeker Winston

Polysecure by Jennifer Fern

The Ethical Slut by Janet W. W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

More than Two by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert

 

Memoirs

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

 

Science

The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

 

LGBTQ

The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs

The Lives of Transgender People By Jenny Bremen and Susan Rankin

 

Race

White Like Me by Time Wise

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

The Mis-education of the Negro by Carrie Goodwin Woodson

 

Deconstruction/Deconversion

Stages of Faith by James W. Fowler

Power vs Force by David R. Hawkins, MD., PhD.

Ring of Power by Jean Shinoda-Bolwen , M.D.

Leaving Your Religion by James Mulholland

Wounded Faith: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse Edited by Dr. Neil Damgaard

Bounded Choice by Janja Lalich

Cults In Our Midst by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich

Escaping Utopia by Janja Lalich and Karla McLaren

 

Purity Culture/Sex

The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Maiden King by Robert Bly & Maron Woodman

The Chalice & The Blade by Diane Eisler

Healing the Shame that Binds you by John Bradshaw*

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski 

Sex and God by Darrel W. Ray

Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

 

Research

Global Center for Religious Research

International Cult Studies Association