Captive Hearts, Captive Minds

Infobox Book
name = Captive Hearts, Captive Minds
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image_caption = Captive Hearts, Captive Minds
author = Madeleine Landau Tobias
Janja Lalich
Michael Langone
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country = United States
language = English
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subject = Cults
psychology
genre = nonfiction
psychology
cults
publisher = Hunter House Publishers
release_date = April 1994
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media_type = Hardcover
pages = 304
isbn = ISBN 0-89793-144-0
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followed_by = Cults in Our Midst
Bounded Choice

"Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships" is a nonfiction psychology book dealing with cults, by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, Ph.D., and Michael Langone. The book was published by Hunter House Publishers in 1994.

Reception

Piekarski writes that Tobias and Lalich had both spent time in "restrictive groups", and that their work serves as a comprehensive analysis of the cult experience.Bill Piekarski, Southwestern Coll. Lib., Chula Vista, Cal., Library Journal, 1994, Reed Business Information, Inc.] Verify source|date=May 2008

In her book, "", Chrnalogar cites "Captive Hearts, Captive Minds" and adds a note that the book is: "excellent for former New Agers" [cite book
last = Chrnalogar
first = Mary Alice
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publisher = Zondervan
date = 2000
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pages = 260
url =
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id = ISBN 0310234085] .

Usage in secondary works

The work is extensively cited in Tourish, and Wohlforth's "", in their chapter on Marlene Dixon [cite book
last = Wohlforth
first = Tim
authorlink = Tim Wohlforth
coauthors = Dennis Tourish
title =
publisher = M.E. Sharpe
date = 2000
location =
pages = 234
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0765606399 ] .

Snow cites the work in his book, "", to analyze predisposing factors that might make certain individuals more inclined than others to join cultscite book
last = Snow
first = Robert L.
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coauthors =
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publisher = Praeger/Greenwood
date = 2003
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pages = 5, 129, 138, 196
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0275980529] . Snow cites Lalich and Tobias again later in his work, while discussing the experience of a woman who had been counseled by a therapist that belonged to what Snow referred to as: "..an intensely controlling psychoanalytical cult called the Sullivanians."

"Captive Hearts, Captive Minds" is also cited by Jenkins as a resource in his book "", in the chapter "Overrun with Messiahs" [cite book
last = Jenkins
first = Philip
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title =
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 2000
location =
pages = 241
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0195127447] .

References

External links

* [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_bookreview/tobais_madeleine_captivehearts.htm Excerpted sections] , "Cultic Studies Journal", Psychological Manipulation and Society Vol. 10, No. 3, 1993
* [http://www.cultinfobooks.com/detail.asp?product_id=BOTL About the Authors] , ICSA, Cult Information Bookstore

ee also

*Margaret Singer, Ph.D.
*Robert Jay Lifton
*Janja Lalich, Ph.D.