Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships (3rd Edition)
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3rd Edition
Updated and revised, including a new section on the Troubled Teen Industry
Cult victims and those who have experienced abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low self-esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides insightful information for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track.
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Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in self-sealing, or closed, systems (cults, human trafficking, situations of coercive influence and control, ideological extremism), with a particular focus on recruitment, indoctrination, and methods of influence and control. She is Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State University, Chico and has been studying the social psychology of controversial groups and exploitative and abusive relationships for 30+ years. Dr. Lalich has written and lectured extensively, has advised the international intelligence community on extremism and indoctrination, and has served as consultant and expert witness in civil and criminal cases.
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3rd Edition
Updated and revised, including a new section on the Troubled Teen Industry
Cult victims and those who have experienced abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low self-esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides insightful information for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track.
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Janja Lalich tells of experiences with cults and abuse, and survival
In Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships, the listener is brought into a world that if you’ve only seen in movies or television, a totally different experience of being in a cult. In our world today, it is not uncommon, and some members are finally being caught and prosecuted. It’s another epidemic in our country that until it’s made public, not many people talk about. Janja Lalich explains how one may be enticed into that world, especially if they believe no one cares of loves them, but then when reality sinks in, and abuse, physical and sexual occurs, with coercion, and believing there is no way out, defeat in oneself can occur. I recommend that every one listen to this book. First, because of how the book is put together, it makes the story more dramatic, where you get multiple actors, in the book, multiple voices. To me, it’s like a play on audio, and it delivers, no matter the story. The terror, the aftermath of one that leaves the cult, is one that can last forever, and end up being part of the person forever, even defining that person. Not everyone gets out, or gets out alive, and that is another issue with survival or belief in something that is not really there. This book is entitled Take back your life, and it is worth every single word, and if it can help persons heal or start to heal, it has done its job. The experience of the author is worth noting, and how incredible a story, a true story of lives destroyed, and lives that can heal, is remarkable. PTSD is no joke, and many people who suffer from it, don’t realize that they have it, and it’s not just for war-torn brave armed forces, anyone suffering a trauma, can suffer. I know, because I do. Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships on audiobook is a definite listening recommendation by Amy’s Bookshelf Reviews. Amy’s Bookshelf Reviews recommends that anyone who listens to this book, to also write a review.