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Paul R. Martin,
Ph.D.
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cult groups, sects, and new
religious movements
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Paul R.
Martin, Ph.D.
Director, Wellspring Retreat and Resource
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paul@wellspringretreat.org |
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http://wellspringretreat.org
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Contribution: |
- Study
Indicates Rehab's Benefits
- Vol. 9, No.2, 1992
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Post-Cult Symptoms as Measured by the MCMI Before and After Residential Treatment
- Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2
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Pseudo-identity and the Treatment of Personality Change in Victims of Captivity
and Cults
- Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.13, No. 2
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Special
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Recovery From Cults: A Pastoral/Psychological Dialogue-Personal Accounts of Former
Group Members
Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization: A Rational/Empirical Defense of Thought Reform
- Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 15., No. 2, 1998
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1999 Conference: Cults, Psychological Manipulation & Society,
Minneapolis, MN, May 14-19, 1999
AFF Annual Conference: Jonestown
Memorial, November 13-15, 1998, Chicago, IL
AFF Annual Conference: Children and Cults May
29 - May 31, 1998 – Philadelphia, PA
- Cults: A Clinical and
Research Update
- Undue Influence Conference,National Institute of Health,
January 17, 1997, Bethesda, MD Video Available
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| Bio: |
Paul
Martin, Ph.D., a former member and leader of The
Great Commission, is a psychotherapist and Director of the
Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
in Albany, Ohio, a residential rehabilitation center for ex-cult members. Dr. Martin is
author of Cult-Proofing Your Kid. |
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Dr. Paul Martin
Paul Martin (Ph. D., Pittsburgh) is a psychologist in private practice in Athens, OH -
where he and his three assistants provide contract psychological services at Echoing
Meadows Hospital - and the Executive Director of the
Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center,
an institution which he founded in 1986 expressly to work with the cult-involved and their
families who had begun to ask for his assistance. Dr. Martin's background and experience especially fit him for diagnosing
and treating victims of coercive persuasion and thought reform. He dropped out of graduate
school in 1971 and rose to leadership in a Jesus Movement group called "The
Blitz" (later known as The Great Commission International). When he eventually
questioned the group's cultic qualities to no effect, he left. Like some others, he then
went back to school partly to analyze his experience. He did so, and then began helping
others to do the same.
Apart from his three degrees in psychology, a year of
advanced study of psychopharmacology, and an M.A. in humanities, Dr. Martin counts
theological studies at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City and Princeton
Theological Seminary in New Jersey. Dr. Martin was a counselor for the Lutheran Service
Society in Pennsylvania, a Senior Research Associate for the University of Pittsburgh's
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and Executive Director of Kansas City's
Cornerstone Religious Foundation, which ministers to area campuses. He was also for five
years a member of the department of psychology at western Pennsylvania's Geneva College,
where he taught psychology, psychopharmacology, and the biblical basis of behavior.
Dr. Martin recently published "Dispelling the myths:
The psychological consequences of cultic involvement" (Christian Research Journal,
Winter/Spring 1989, 9-14) and is working on a study entitled "Personality
configuration and denial symptoms of recent and past members of cultic
organizations." His presentations to professional associations include Self-injury
Behavioral Programs at the 2nd Annual Behavior Modification Conference (Ohio Department of
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1986), and Psychological Aspects of
Cultic Involvement (Rockford Conference on Discernment and Evangelism, 1989).
Dr. Martin is a member of AFF's Victim Assistance Committee
and is helping to develop a post-cult assessment instrument that can help professionals
working with cult- leavers who have received no exit counseling or rehabilitation (the
vast majority). He is also collaborating with AFF's Michael Langone on a clinical inquiry
to determine what cult-related distress looks like, what factors can be identified to
predict cult-related damage, and whether or not certain kinds of treatment work. |
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