Arthur J. Deikman

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name = Arthur J. Deikman, M.D.


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birth_date = 1931
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residence = United States
citizenship = United States
nationality = United States
field = psychiatry
work_institution = University of California, San Francisco
alma_mater = Harvard College
Harvard Medical School
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Arthur J. Deikman is professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Humanistic Psychology" [ [http://www.ahpweb.org/pub/journal/menu.html JHP website] , [http://www.sagepub.com/editorDetails.nav?contribId=517666 Sage Publications] , Arthur Deikman, Affiliations: School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.] . He is also a contributor to "The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease".

His book is used as part of the curriculum for the course "Cults and New Religious Movements" at St. Francis Xavier University ["Cults and New Religious Movements", Dr. Annette J. Ahern, St. Francis Xavier University, RELS 225/SOCI 226, Section 11.] . It is a cited reference for the article "Self-Sealing Doctrines, the Misuse of Power, and Recovered Memory", by psychologist Linda Riebel [ [http://www.itaa-net.org/TAJNet/articles/riebel-self-sealing.html "Self-Sealing Doctrines, the Misuse of Power, and Recovered Memory"] , Linda Riebel, "Transactional Analysis Journal", vol. 26, no. 1, January 1996, pp. 40-45.] . It is a cited reference in the Encyclopedia of Psychology, and is quoted in the article on cults, where the article asserts that: "Certain types of political groups and terrorist organizations are still other examples of "cults" that defy the common definition of the term." [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0004/ai_2699000433 Cults] , Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Dr. Arthur Deikman, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, is one of many psychologists who has observed cultic behavior in many areas of society other than in extremist religious groups. In the introduction to his 1990 book, The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society, Deikman asserted that "behavior similar to that which takes place in extreme cults takes place in all of us," and suggested that "the longing for parents persists into adulthood and results in cult behavior that pervades normal society."] .

Education

*Harvard College
*Harvard Medical School
*Board Certified, Psychiatry, Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Published works

Books

*, 1976
*The Observing Self (book), 1983
*Evaluating Spiritual and Utopian Groups (book), 1988
*, 1990
*, 2003, [http://www.deikman.com/wrong.html excerpted]

Articles

* [http://www.religiousworlds.com/mystic/deikman.html Arthur Deikman on Mystic Experience] , "Mystic Experience and Two Modes of Consciousness", adapted from the work of Arthur J. Deikman, M.D."
* [http://www.imprint.co.uk/online/Deikman.html Article] , "Journal of Consciousness Studies", 1996
* [http://www.deikman.com/awareness.html I = Awareness] , "Journal of Consciousness Studies", 3 (4), pp. 350-6.
* [http://www.buddhanet.net/psyspir3.htm Spirituality Expands a Therapist's Horizons]
* [http://jhp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/3/8 The Evaluation of Spiritual and Utopian Groups] , "Journal of Humanistic Psychology", Vol. 23, No. 3, 8-18 (1983), Abstract
* [http://www.deikman.com/former.html Treating Former Members of Cults]

References

ee also

*American culture
*Terrorism
*Destructive cult

External links

* [http://www.deikman.com/ Dr. Arthur Deikman] , author's personal website
* [http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/interviews/deikman.html Interviewed at his home by DC on December 21, 1997] , "Crooked Cucumber"
* [http://www.humangivens.com/hgi/archive/cults.htm The Human Givens Institute] , "Exploring the Cult in Culture"
* [http://sandra.stahlman.com/deikman.html Commentary on Deikman's Essays] - "Deautomatization and the Mystic Experience", "Bimodal Consciousness and the Mystic Experience", Sandra Stahlman, 1992