Margaret Singer

Margaret Singer

female, deceased (2003)
Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley,...
Ronald Enroth

Ronald Enroth

male, 71 years old (Santa Barbara, California, United States)
Ronald M. Enroth (born October 28, 1938) is Professor of Sociology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, and a prominent evangelical...
Steven Hassan

Steven Hassan

male
Steven Alan Hassan (born 1954) is a licensed mental health counselor and an exit counselor. Hassan was an early advocate of exit counseling, and is...
Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton

male, 83 years old
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and...

Steve Eichel

male
Steve K. D. Eichel (formerly Steve Dubrow-Eichel) is a psychologist known primarily for his work on destructive cults, coercive persuasion, mind...
Larry Pile

Larry Pile

male, 66 years old
Lawrence A. ("Larry") Pile is a cult research specialist, archivist, and workshop leader at Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center. He received his...

Michael Langone

male
Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., is an American counseling psychologist who specialises in research about cultic groups and psychological manipulation....
Carol Giambalvo

Carol Giambalvo

female
Carol Giambalvo is a consultant and eminent expert on "cults". She herself considers herself an ex-cult member. Giambalvo is a cofounder of...
Louis Jolyon West

Louis Jolyon West

male, deceased (1999)
Louis Jolyon ("Jolly") West (1924 in Brooklyn, New York - January 2, 1999 in Los Angeles) was an American psychiatrist, human rights activist and...
Herbert L. Rosedale

Herbert L. Rosedale

male
Herbert L. Rosedale (Unknown - November 4, 2004) was one of America's foremost anti-cult activists. Director of the AFF (renamed ICSA), he worked...