Recovery & Healing

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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  • Cult Theory / Coercive Control / Recovery
  • Investigative
  • Memoirs / Personal Stories
  • Trauma
Well Trained Wife Book

A Well-Trained Wife

By Tia Levings

Becoming Free Indeed book

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story Of Disentangling Faith From Fear

By Jinger Vuolo

Behind Closed Doors book

Behind Closed Doors: The Story of an Exclusive Brethren Life

By Ngaire Thomas

Behind the Exclusive Brethren book

Behind the Exclusive Brethren

By Michael Bachelard

Beyond Belief book

Beyond Belief

By Jenna Miscavige Hill

Bounded Choice - True Believers and Charismatic Cults book

Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults

By Janja Lalich

Call Me Evil, Let Me Go book

Call Me Evil, Let Me Go

By Sarah Jones

Combatting Cult Mind Control book

Combatting Cult Mind Control

By Stven Hassan

Commune book

Commune – Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa

By Olive Jones

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation book

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

By Suzette Boon

Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists book

Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists

By Bonnie Zieman

Cult Insanity book

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

By Irene Spencer

Cult to Christ Book

Cult to Christ

By Elizabeth Coleman

Cult Trip book

Cult Trip: Inside the world of coercion & control

By Anke Richter

Cultish - The Language of Fanaticism book

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By Amanda Montell

Cults in Our Midst book

Cults in Our Midst

By Margaret Thaler Singer & Robert Jay Lifton

Dangerous Persuaders book

Dangerous Persuaders

By Louise Samways

Daughter of Gloriavale book

Daughter of Gloriavale

By Lilia Tarawa

Do As I Say

Do As I Say

By Sarah Steel

Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse book

Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse

By Lisa Oakley & Justin Humphreys

Escaping Utopia book

Escaping Utopia

By Janja Lalich & Karla McLaren

Excommunicated book

Excommunicated

By Craig Hoyle

Exit Counseling book

Exit Counseling: A Family Intervention

By Carol Giambalvo

Group Think Book

Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion

By Christopher Booker

Hearken O Daughter book

Hearken O Daughter

By Grace Adams & Poia Alpha

How Will I Ever Get Through This Book

How Will I Ever Get Through This?

By Lucy Hone

I Am Revealed Book

I Am Revealed: Behind The Ashram Door

By Lucy Hone

Life Together Book

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mission of Malice Book

Mission of Malice: My Exodus from KwaSizabantu

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not My Idea of Heaven book

Not My Idea of Heaven

By Lindsey Rosa

Preserving the Truth book

Preserving the Truth

By Cherie Kropp-Ehrig

Recovery From Cults book

Recovery from Cults

By Michael D. Langone

See What You Made Me Do book

See What You Made Me Do

By Jess Hill

Shattered Dreams book

Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife

By Irene Spencer

She Is Not Your Rehab book

She is not your rehab

By Matt Brown

Shepherding a Child's Heart book

Shepherding a Child’s Heart

By Tedd Tripp

Sins of the Father book

Sins of the Father

By Fleur Beale

Something's Not Right book

Something’s Not Right

By Wade Mullen

Stolen Innocence book

Stolen Innocence

By Elissa Wall

Surviving Centrepoint book

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

By Rachel C. King

Take Back Your Life Book

Take Back Your Life

By Janja Lalich

Terror, Love and Brainwashing book

Terror, Love and Brainwashing

By Alexandra Stein

The Body Keeps the Score book

The Body Keeps the Score

By Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Family book

The Family: the shocking true story of a notorious cult

By Chris Johnston & Rosie Jones

Thought reform and the Psychology of Totalism book

Thought reform and the Psychology of Totalism

By Robert Jay Lifton

Trauma and Recovery book

Trauma and Recovery

By Judith Herman

Traumatic Narcissism book

Traumatic Narcissism

By Daniel Shaw

Unfollow book

Unfollow

By Megan Phelps-Roper

Unveiled book

Unveiled – A story of surviving Gloriavale

By Theophila Pratt

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

When Home Hurts book

When Home Hurts

By Jeremy Pierre & Greg Wilson

Why Won't You Apologize book

Why Won’t You Apologize?

By Harriet Lerner