Report on the "Rama" Computer Cult

Reading on Cults

• Combating Cult Mind Control - Steven Hassan - Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont. 1990 - Tell how cults recruit, the problems of cult involvement and ways of combating cult involvement.
• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - Robert Jay Lifton. University of North Caolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC, 1989. A detailed study of mind control as developed in China.
• Cults: What Parents Should Know - Joan Carol Ross and Michael Langone. American Family Foundation. Weston, MA 1988. The impact of destructive cults and strategies for dealing with the problem.
• "Cults" - John Hockman, M.D. - Psychiatric Annals. Vol 20 No. 4, April, 1990. The entire issure of this professional publication is devoted to the psychiatric aspects of cult involvement.