High-Control Groups, Cults and Institutions
Educational & Recovery Resources
This is a list of some resources that you may find useful if you have been in a high-control group or if you are wondering if you are in one.
Books
An Everyday Cult by Gerette Buglion
Scarred by Sarah Edmondson
Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
Restart and Restore: A Journal For Survivors of Manipulation by Rachel Bernstein
Troublemaker by Leah Remini
Traumatic Narcissism by Daniel Shaw
Take Back Your Life by Janja Lalich
Podcasts
A Little Bit Culty
IndoctriNation
Television Media - Mentioned In Particular For Their Educational Portrayal of High-Control Group Coercive Control and its Psychological Mechanisms and Impact
The Vow (HBO 2-Season DocuSeries about the NXIVM Cult)
Seduced (Starz DocuSeries, also about the NXIVM Cult)
The Synanon Fix: Did The Cure Become a Cult? (HBO DocuSeries about addictions group “treatment” that became a cult)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (HBO DocuSeries)
Wayward (Netflix fictional series)
Websites
https://www.livingcultfree.com/
Organizations
International Cultic Studies Association
Lalich Center on Cults & Coercion
Freedom of Mind Resource Center