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://freedomofmind.com/

https://www.livingcultfree.com/

https://www.daretodoubt.org/

Organizations

International Cultic Studies Association

Lalich Center on Cults & Coercion

Freedom of Mind Resource Center