Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., a counseling psychologist, is ICSA’s Executive Director.  He was the founder editor of Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ), the editor of CSJ’s successor, Cultic Studies Review, and editor of Recovery From Cults.  He is co-author of Cults: What Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related Violence: What You Should Know.  Dr. Langone has spoken and written widely about cults.  In 1995, he received the Leo J. Ryan Award from the "original" Cult Awareness network and was honored as the Albert V. Danielsen visiting Scholar at Boston University.

 

See also Profile on culticstudiesreview.org.

 

Address:

POB 2265

Bonita Springs, FL  34133

E-mail: mail@icsamail.com

Telephone: 239-514-3081

 

< Langone, Michael D., Ph.D. - profile
< Langone, Michael D., Ph.D. - profile
^ Langone, Michael: "Mental Health Update on Cults" - Cult Observer 13(1), 1996
Chambers, Robert, Ph.D. et al.: "The Group Psychological Abuse Scale"
Chambers, Robert, Ph.D. et al.: "The Group Psychological Abuse Scale" - abs
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D. "Strongly Held Views...New Age...Critics Versus Experts"
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "Is The New Age Movement Harmless? Critics Versus Experts" - abs
Dole, Arthur A., Ph.D.: "Is The New Age Movement Harmless? Critics Versus Experts" - abs
Langone, Micahel, Ph.D.: "Deception, Dependency & Dread The Conversion Process"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D. & Nieburg, Herbert, Ph.D.: "Treatment of Satanism"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: " Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Academic Disputes and Dialogue Collection: Preface"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Letter to a Former Member of a Meditation Group"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "On Dialogue Between the Two Tribes of Cultic Studies Resarchers"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Outline: Child Literature"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and Measurement Issues"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "The Comet and Its Tail"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "The Two Camps of Cultic Studies"
Langone, Michael Ph.D.: "Cults and Violence"
Langone, Michael, D. Ph.D.: "Group Psychological Abuse Scale"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "An Investigation of a Reputedly Psychologically Abusive Group that Targets College Students"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Are “Sound” Theology and Cultism Mutually Exclusive?
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Boston Church of Christ Movement Study"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Business and the New Age Movement: A Critical Perspective"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Child Custody and Cults"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Children and Cults -- excerpt from Recovery from Cults
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cultic Studies Bibliography 2003"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults and Mind Control"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults, Conversion, Science, & Harm
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Cults: Questions and Answers"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Definitional Ambiguity"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Helping Families"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Large Group Awareness Trainings"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Mind-Manipulating Groups: Are You or a Family Member a Victim?
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "New Religions and Public Policy"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "On Using the Term "Cult"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Questionnaire Study: Preliminary Report"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Reflections on Post-Cult Recovery
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Research on Destructive Cults
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Satanism and Occult-Related Violence: What You Should Know"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "The Art of Hoping: A Mother’s Story"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "The Cult Problem in Japan"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "We weren't Crazy; We were Fooled"
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "What Is New Age?
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "What Should be Done about Cults?
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "What You Might Want To Know About ICC
Langone, Michael: "Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics: Clarifying the Confusion" - Cult Observer 10(4), 1993
Langone, Michael: "Mind-Manipulating Groups Checklist"
Singer, Margaret, Ph.D.: "Psychotherapy Cults"
Ω Conference 1997: PA Presenter
Ω Conference 2000 WA: Speakers
Ω Conference 2002 FL: Presenters
Ω Conference 2003 CA: Presenter
√ Langone, "Michael: Satanism & Occult-Related Violence"
√ Langone, Michael: "Recovery From Cults"
√ Video: "Symposium - Theory and Cults: In search of the Perfect Explanation, Sociological Theories, Psychological Manipulation: The Abuse of Women Conference"

 

CO Contribution:

"Plagio" -- Undue Influence Addressed in Italy

Vol. 9, No. 3,1992

Deprogramming, Exit Counseling, and Ethics: Clarifying the Confusion

 

What is "New Age?"

Vol.10, No. 7, 1993

Child Custody and Cults

Vol.12, No. 8, 1995

Large Group Awareness Trainings

Vol. 15, No. 1, 1998

CSJ Contribution:

Deprogramming An Analysis of Parental Questionnaires

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.1., No. 1

 

Preventive Education on Cultism for High School Students: A Comparison of Different Programs' Effects on Potential Vulnerability to Cults

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.1., No. 2

 

Cult Involvement: Suggestions for Concerned Parents and Professionals

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.2., No. 1

 

Introduction to Special Issue: Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.2., No. 2

 

Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.2., No. 2

 

Cultism: A Conference for Scholars and Policy Makers. Report of Wingspread Conference

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.3., No. 1

 

Psychotherapy Cults

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.7., No. 2

 

Outreach to Ex-Cult Members: The Question of Terminology

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.8., No. 2

 

Psychological Abuse

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.9., No. 2

 

Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI Before and After Residential Treatment

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.9., No. 2

 

Is the New Age Movement Harmless? Critics vs. Experts

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.10., No. 1

Pluralism, Deeds, Creeds, and Cults

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.10., No. 2

 

Strongly Held Views About the New Age: Critics Versus Experts

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.11., No. 1

 

The Group Psychological Abuse Scale: A Measure of the Varieties of Cultic Abuse

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.11., No. 1

Secular and Religious Critiques of Cults: Complementary Visions, Not Irresolvable Conflicts

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.12., No. 2

Special Collection
Recovery From Cults: A Pastoral/Psychological Dialogue-Personal Accounts of Former Group Members

Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.15., No. 2

Other Contribution:

AFF Annual  Conference: Jonestown Memorial

November 13-15, 1998, Chicago, IL

 

AFF Annual Conference: Children and Cults

May 29 - May 31, 1998, Philadelphia, PA

Theory and Cults

Conference Cults: Theory and Treatment Issues May 30, 1997, Philadelphia, PA
Video Available

Cults: A Clinical and Research Update

Undue Influence Conference, National Institute of Health, January 17, 1997, Bethesda, MD Video Available