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Icsa High in the Hills

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hey hey everyone, I've got more KOSA-related information for you.

So as we all know, KOSA is dumb. The bill is so ridiculously vague it's honestly impressive, and it will ultimately do much more HARM than good. Another reason (other than being able to exploit it) for it's vaugness is that it's just.. doing TOO MUCH.

KOSA is trying to fix a GIGANTIC issue with multiple facets with one single bill. It just can't work like that.

On Twitter, I found this thread that has more SPECIFIC information about the Invest in Child Safety Act, you can read that here.

The poster is looking into it more, and as time goes on, hopefully a list of several alternative bills that replace KOSA *as a whole* can be compiled.

Keep bothering your Reps and Senators folks, tell them about these bills, we got this👍🏽

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‘The Cult Pseudo Identity and the Phases of Recovery and Growth’ presented by Gillie Jenkinson

ICSA is pleased to introduce our new monthly series for our mental health community. Each month will feature a different clinician discussing some aspect of clinical work. Each presentation will serve as a stimulus for questions and a discussion of clinical issues, which will occur during the following hour.

Dr Gillie Jenkinson will discuss the rationale for being informed by the Phases of Recovery and Growth when working with former cult members. She will explore how a psychoeducational approach can assist the individual to unlayer and dismantle their cult pseudo-identity. The therapist can then work with the former member’s authentic autonomous identity and not the cult pseudo-identity. The client can then recover and grow, free of the influence and control of the cultic experience.

[unwelcome-ozian]

Do you know if ICSA is a reliable source for reading about cultic activities?

International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) They have a lot of good information and resources. They have been around for many years, and supported numerous people.

Oz

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Letter from the President of ICSA to the Editor of the Pennsylvania Psychologist

In October, the Pennsylvania Psychologist had a special section on religion and psychology. All the articles were very positive. ICSA’s president, Dr. Steve K. D. Eichel submitted a letter, which was published. We share that letter with readers.

I congratulate PPA for publishing thoughtful articles on the interface of psychology and religion in the September issue of the Pennsylvania Psychologist.

However, I believe it’s important to be reminded that, when interfacing with religious or spiritual issues, we find both the “good/light” and the “bad/dark.” So I was surprised that none of the articles mentioned, let alone dealt with, one of the “dark” sides of religion: destructive religious cults.

Religious cults have not “gone away,” as many often think. They continue to create psychological, familial, physical, and financial havoc in many followers and families. Those of us who have been actively treating former cultists for decades continue to deal with adults newly “recruited” into these groups, but we are seeing more and more ex-followers who were born and raised in cults.

These Second Generation Adults (SGAs) and Multi-Generation Adults are raised in groups that can severely damage normal psychological development in children. Cults demand blind allegiance, limit exposure to information (often while repeatedly conveying misinformation), limit members’ social connections, punish independent thinking and behavior, all too often engage in and enable sexual and physical abuse, and then engage in “gaslighting” when members — especially children — witness that abuse. With little or no awareness of how destructive some “religions” can be, psychologists can miss the opportunity to help clients interpret and process these experiences. We may not know the right questions to ask, we may not know enough about a specific group’s psychosocial dynamics, or how to handle the former member’s shame and guilt. Many SGA/MGAs suffer from severe attachment disorders that disrupt relationships, and sexual shame and dysfunction are quite common. After leaving their groups, SGAs/MGAs are often shunned by family members who remain inside, which raises issues too numerous to recount here. Based on hundreds of anecdotal reports from clinicians over the years, former members can sound so out of touch with conventional reality that they are sometimes misdiagnosed with psychotic disorders or, because of their black/white thinking, as having borderline personality traits/disorder. In fact, most suffer from chronic and complicated PTSD that typically includes strong dissociative tendencies. Clinicians who employ trauma-focused methods like hypnosis or EMDR can make matters worse, as many cults engage in consciousness-altering practices as part of their thought reform program. Attempting to explain the “good” aspects of religion, or encouraging former members to explore “mainstream” religions, can also make matters worse.

There are excellent resources for psychologists who will inevitably wind up treating former members of cults. The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), of which I am President, is probably your best bet. ICSA has published two books with clinicians in mind, and the ICSA website contains thousands of articles on a broad range of groups and cult-related topics. I encourage all psychologists to become at least nominally familiar with the “dark side” of religions.

Yours truly,

Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP

President, International Cultic Studies Association

November 2019

https://www.icsahome.com/

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Minions and Master

Moon: “… you must know the knack of holding and possessing the listeners’ hearts. If there appears a crack in the man’s personality, you wedge in a chisel, and split the person apart.”

Moonie coffin time

Developing Healthy Boundaries

VIDEO: Why do people join cults?  – Janja Lalich

The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power

Saying Good-bye to the Guru – Steve K. D. Eichel

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How totalism works The brainwashing methods of isolation, engulfment and fear can lead anyone to a cult. I should know – I was in one. by Alexandra Stein ____________________________________

Cult Indoctrination – and the Road to Recovery

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Yoo Ah In Gets Nominated For Best Actor in the 2019 International Cinephile Society Awards, BURNING Leads Nominations

Yoo Ah In Gets Nominated For Best Actor in the 2019 International Cinephile Society Awards, BURNING Leads Nominations

Here comes another good news for us all, again!

Following his Best Actor nomination in The 13th Asian Film Awards, Yoo Ah In got nominated for best actor again in The 16th ICS Awards (International Cinephile Society Awards) for his performance in Lee Chang Dong’s critically acclaimed film BURNING. In addition, together with another foreign language film Zama, BURNING dominated this year’s ICS…

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Addict, Idol and Cult Member: Reflections on the loss of Self 

 A Talk presented by Allen Tate Wood At The 2017 Annual Conference of The International Cultic Studies Association In Bordeaux, France