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Recommended Books

A selection of books offering insight, understanding, and support for those affected by high-control environments. These resources can help make sense of experiences, build awareness, and support healthy steps forward.

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Well Trained Wife Book

A Well-Trained Wife

By Tia Levings

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Becoming Free Indeed book

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story Of Disentangling Faith From Fear

By Jinger Vuolo

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Behind Closed Doors book

Behind Closed Doors: The Story of an Exclusive Brethren Life

By Ngaire Thomas

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Behind the Exclusive Brethren book

Behind the Exclusive Brethren

By Michael Bachelard

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Bounded Choice - True Believers and Charismatic Cults book

Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults

By Janja Lalich

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Call Me Evil, Let Me Go book

Call Me Evil, Let Me Go

By Sarah Jones

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Commune book

Commune – Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa

By Olive Jones

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Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation book

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

By Suzette Boon

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Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists book

Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists

By Bonnie Zieman

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Cult Insanity book

Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement

By Irene Spencer

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Cult to Christ Book

Cult to Christ

By Elizabeth Coleman

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Cult Trip book

Cult Trip: Inside the world of coercion & control

By Anke Richter

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Cultish - The Language of Fanaticism book

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By Amanda Montell

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Dangerous Persuaders book

Dangerous Persuaders

By Louise Samways

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Do As I Say

Do As I Say

By Sarah Steel

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Excommunicated book

Excommunicated

By Craig Hoyle

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Group Think Book

Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion

By Christopher Booker

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How Will I Ever Get Through This Book

How Will I Ever Get Through This?

By Lucy Hone

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I Am Revealed Book

I Am Revealed: Behind The Ashram Door

By Lucy Hone

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Life Together Book

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Mission of Malice Book

Mission of Malice: My Exodus from KwaSizabantu

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Not My Idea of Heaven book

Not My Idea of Heaven

By Lindsey Rosa

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Shattered Dreams book

Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife

By Irene Spencer

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She Is Not Your Rehab book

She is not your rehab

By Matt Brown

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Shepherding a Child's Heart book

Shepherding a Child’s Heart

By Tedd Tripp

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Something's Not Right book

Something’s Not Right

By Wade Mullen

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Stolen Innocence book

Stolen Innocence

By Elissa Wall

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Surviving Centrepoint book

Surviving Centrepoint: My years in New Zealand’s most infamous cult

By Rachel C. King

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Take Back Your Life Book

Take Back Your Life

By Janja Lalich

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The Body Keeps the Score book

The Body Keeps the Score

By Bessel Van Der Kolk

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The Family book

The Family: the shocking true story of a notorious cult

By Chris Johnston & Rosie Jones

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Trauma and Recovery book

Trauma and Recovery

By Judith Herman

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Unfollow book

Unfollow

By Megan Phelps-Roper

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Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse book

Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse

By Gillie Jenkinson

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When Home Hurts book

When Home Hurts

By Jeremy Pierre & Greg Wilson

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