Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion

Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is a non-fiction book on cults and coercive persuasion, written by Marc Galanter (MD). The book was published in hardcover format in 1989 by Oxford University Press, and again in hardcover in 1999 in a second edition work. The second edition was reprinted by Oxford University Press, in March 2007. Galanter works at the New York University School of Medicine, as Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. He is also the editor of Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association. In a review in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Favazza described Galanter as "the psychiatric expert on cults". The book is based on Galanter's...