Resources
Sites
Podcasts
Critical Thinking
Critical Reasoning for Beginners - Oxford University
Philosophy for Beginners - Oxford Univeristy
Project Hope Podcast with Jennifer French
Thinking Clearly - a podcast about critical thinking
Relationships
Multiamory- rethinking modern relationships
Podcasts
Cult Vault Podcast with Kacey
A Little Bit Culty
Books
Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
Trauma By Professor Gordon Turnbull
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
Healing the Shame that Binds you by John Bradshaw*
It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn
The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke
How To Do The Work by Nicole LePera
Coercive Control
Brainwashing by Kathleen Taylor
Love, Terror, and Brainwashing by Alexandra Klein
Leaving Your Religion by James Mulholland
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Religious Trauma Syndrome
Understanding Religious Trauma Syndrome - a paper
Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell
Grief/Loss
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fischer
Love, Terror, & Brainwashing by Alexandra Klein
Healing After Loss by Martha W. Hickman
Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss
Relationships
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families By John Friel, PhD., and Linda Friel, PhD.
An Adult Child's Guide to What is Normal by John Friel, PhD., and Linda Friel, PhD.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.
Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD.
A Smart Girls Guide to Polyamory by Dedeker Winston
The Ethical Slut by Janet W. W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
More than Two by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert
Memoirs
Science
The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
LGBTQ
The Lives of Transgender People By Jenny Bremen and Susan Rankin
Race
White Like Me by Time Wise
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Dubois
Deconstruction/Deconversion
Stages of Faith by James W. Fowler
Power vs Force by David R. Hawkins, MD., PhD.
Ring of Power by Jean Shinoda-Bolwen , M.D.
Leaving Your Religion by James Mulholland
Wounded Faith: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse Edited by Dr. Neil Damgaard
Bounded Choice by Janja Lalich
Cults In Our Midst by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich
Escaping Utopia by Janja Lalich and Karla McLaren
Purity Culture/Sex
The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Maiden King by Robert Bly & Maron Woodman
The Chalice & The Blade by Diane Eisler
Healing the Shame that Binds you by John Bradshaw*
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Research
Global Center for Religious Research
International Cult Studies Association