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Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation (sub-titled Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir), an autobiography published in 1994 and written by Elizabeth Wurtzel, describes the author's experiences with major depression. The book was adapted into an independent film of the...

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Anthem

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of...

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The Language Instinct

The Language Instinct is a book by Steven Pinker for a general audience, published in 1994. In it, Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity for language. In addition, he deals sympathetically with Noam Chomsky's claim that all...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Science

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man...

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl's 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. According to Frankl, the book intends to answer the question "How...

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x Genre:: Psychology

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The History of Sexuality

The History of Sexuality is the title of a three-volume series of books by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault written between 1976 and 1984. Originally published in French, the volumes are individually titled The Will to Knowledge ...

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x Genre:: Philosophy,; Psychology

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The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The first edition (in German, and bearing the title Die Traumdeutung) was published in November 1899 (post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The book inaugurated the theory of...

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Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion by Scottish-American billionaire Andrew Carnegie. It was published in 1937 during the Great Depression. It remains...

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a non-fiction book, and seminal work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell. In this publication, Campbell discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world...

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x Genre:: Fiction,; Sociology,; Philosophy,; more ▼

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IQ and the Wealth of Nations

IQ and the Wealth of Nations is a controversial 2002 book by Dr. Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of...

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x Genre:: Economics,; Psychology

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Quantum Psychology

Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World was written by Robert Anton Wilson and originally published in 1990. Some consider Quantum Psychology a follow-up to Wilson's earlier volume Prometheus Rising, mainly for the presence...

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x Genre:: Psychology

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Sybil

Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Children's literature,; Biography

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Human, All Too Human

Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), subtitled A Book for Free Spirits (Ein Buch für freie Geister), is a book by 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Philosophy

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Discipline and Punish

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a book written by the philosopher Michel Foucault. Originally published in 1975 in France under the title Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la Prison, it was translated into English in 1977. It is an...

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x Genre:: History,; Psychology

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The Alchemist

The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young boy Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic. The...

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x Genre:: Novel,; Adventure novel,; Psychology,; more ▼

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On Intelligence

On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a book by Palm Pilot-inventor Jeff Hawkins with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland...

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x Genre:: Philosophy,; Psychology,; Fiction

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Religion Explained

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought is a book by anthropologist Pascal Boyer that discusses the evolutionary origins of religious concepts. Through an examination of the mind's inference systems - how they work and how...

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x Genre:: Science,; Psychology

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Thérèse Raquin

Thérèse Raquin is the title of a novel (first published in 1867) and a play (first performed in 1873) by the French writer Émile Zola. The novel was originally published in serial format in the journal L'Artiste and in book format in December of the...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Psychological novel

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Snapping

Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change is a 1978 anti-cult book which describes the authors' theory of religious conversion, called snapping in terms of mind control, a mental process which the authors argue by which a person is...

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The Eden Express

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity (ISBN 1-58322-543-9) is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about Mark's experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery. After his recovery, he...

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x Genre:: Biography,; Psychology

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How Images Think

How Images Think is a book by Ron Burnett published by MIT Press in 2004 and reprinted in 2005 which deals with New Media and many changes that digital technologies have made possible both in modern western culture and in society as a whole. Digital...

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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by the British naturalist Charles Darwin published in 1872, on how humans and non-human animals express their emotions. It was, along with his 1871 book The Descent of Man and Selection in...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Science

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Coming of Age in Samoa

Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by Margaret Mead based upon youth in Samoa and lightly relating to youth in America, first published in 1928. In the foreword to Coming of Age in Samoa, Mead's advisor, Franz Boas, wrote of its significance that Boas...

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The Friend Who Got Away

The Friend Who Got Away (ISBN 0-385-51186-8) is an anthology of essays dealing with the subject of the dissolution of friendships among women. It was published in 2005 by Doubleday. The collection is edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell.

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x Genre:: Sociology,; Psychology

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Japanese: 午後の曳航, meaning The Afternoon Towing), is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965. The novel chronicles the story of...

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x Genre:: Philosophy,; Psychology,; Fiction

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Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl is a best-selling book by Helen Gurley Brown, published in May 1962. Vaguely autobiographical, it encouraged women to actively pursue a full single life, which included acquiring a career, gaining financial independence and...

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x Genre:: Sociology,; Psychology

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First Things First

First Things First (1994) is a self-help book written by Stephen Covey and A. Roger and Rebecca R. Merrill. It offers a time management approach that, if established as a habit, is supposed to help a person achieve "effectiveness" by aligning him-...

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x Genre:: Business,; Psychology

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Be Here Now

Remember Be Here Now is the title of a 1971 book on spirituality and meditation by Ram Dass. The title derives from a repeated teaching of his guide and companion, Bhagavan Das. The book is divided into four sections: Journey: The Transformation,...

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x Genre:: Psychology

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Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, by Michel Foucault, is an examination of the ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. It is the abridged English edition of...

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Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (German: Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist) is the title of the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that spanned until his death in 1900. It was...

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Totem and Taboo

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...

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Listening to Prozac

Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self is a book written by psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer. Written in 1993, the book discusses how the advance of the anti-depressant drug Prozac might change the...

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Future of an Illusion

The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion) is a book written by Sigmund Freud in 1927. It describes his interpretation of religion's origins, development, psychoanalysis, and its future. Freud describes religion as an illusion, wishes...

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Straight and Crooked Thinking

Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Education

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Games People Play

Games People Play (subtitle: The Psychology of Human Relationships) is a famous 1964 book by psychiatrist Eric Berne. Since its publication it has sold more than five million copies. The book describes both functional and dysfunctional social...

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Thought Forms

Thought Forms is a book, by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, which is a study on the nature and power of thoughts. (ISBN 0-8356-0008-4) The authors state that thoughts have two effects: "a radiating vibration and a floating form". Thought forms are...

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Brainstorms

For the Atlanta public access show, see Brainstorms (show) Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (MIT Press 1981) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett. In these essays, he reflects on the early achievements of...

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x Genre:: Philosophy,; Psychology

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Stumbling on Happiness

Stumbling on Happiness is a non-fiction book by Daniel Gilbert. It was published in the United States and Canada in 2006 by Knopf, and has been translated into 20 languages. It is a New York Times bestseller. Gilbert's central thesis is that,...

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Diary of a Drug Fiend

Diary of a Drug Fiend, published in 1922, was Aleister Crowley's first published novel and is also reportedly the earliest known reference to the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily. The story is widely thought to be based upon Crowley's own drug experiences...

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Interpretation of Schizophrenia

Interpretation of Schizophrenia (first edition, 1955) is a book written by psychiatrist Silvano Arieti that won the 1975 scientific National Book Award in the United States. Interpretation of Schizophrenia sets forth demonstrative evidence of a...

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Forever Odd

Forever Odd is a 2005 novel by Dean Koontz, and the sequel to Odd Thomas. The plot takes place six months after the events of Odd Thomas. After Odd discovers that his childhood friend Danny has been kidnapped, he assumes that Danny's father, who was...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Speculative fiction

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The Book of Lies

The Book of Lies (full title: Which is also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is itself Untrue. Liber CCCXXXIII [Book 333] ) was written by Aleister Crowley and first...

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x Genre:: Reference,; Psychology

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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a self-help book by Dale Carnegie. It was first published in Great Britain in 1948 by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay Suffolk (S.B.N. 437 95083 2). It is currently published as a Mass Market...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Self-help

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The Making of a Moonie

The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? is a 1984 book written by British sociologist Eileen Barker , Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 0-631-13246-5. The book describes the religious conversion process to the Unification...

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The Bisexual Option

The Bisexual Option, by Fritz Klein, MD, was the first psychological publication specifically devoted to bisexuality. It was first published in 1978, with a second edition printed in 1993. Chapter 1. The Threat Both the heterosexual and the...

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Beyond the Down Low

Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America is a 2005 book by Keith Boykin. This book of essays analyzes the validity of the down low phenomenon, first publicized by J. L. King in his book On the Down Low. It covers multiple...

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x Genre:: Sociology,; Psychology

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The Disowned Self

The Disowned Self was written by Nathaniel Branden in 1971. It was Dr. Branden's third book in the area of psychology (preceded by The Psychology of Self-Esteem and Breaking Free). The Disowned Self explores, "...the problem of self-alienation - a...

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A Return to Love

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles is the first book by author Marianne Williamson and is to date the biggest selling book of interpretation of the spiritual thought system found in the book A Course In Miracles....

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x Genre:: Fiction,; Psychology,; Self-help

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The 33 Strategies of War

The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene is a collection of discussions and examples on offensive and defensive strategies released in 2006, which teaches the reader how to apply these strategies to resolve conflicts in daily life. The book uses...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Business,; Self-help

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Getting to YES

Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury. Reissued in 1991 with additional authorship credit to Bruce Patton, the book made appearances for years on Business...

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The Art of Seduction

The Art Of Seduction is a book by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers which, while examining social power much like their book The 48 Laws of Power, does so through the lens of seduction. The book is divided into two sections. The first concentrates on...

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x Genre:: Psychology

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Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks is a 1952 book written by Frantz Fanon originally published in French as Peau noire, masques blancs. In this study, Fanon uses psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical theory to explain the feelings of dependency and inadequacy...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Sociology

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Philosophical explanations

Philosophical Explanations is a wide-ranging metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical treatise written by Robert Nozick and published in 1981. Nozick makes a case for a "Parthenon" model of philosophical ambition rather than a "tottering tower",...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Philosophy

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Queen Bees and Wannabes

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence is a 2002 book by Rosalind Wiseman. It focuses on the ways in which girls in high schools form cliques, and on patterns of...

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a book by Robert M. Pirsig.

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x Genre:: Non-fiction,; Philosophy,; Travel,; more ▼

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Cults in our Midst

Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives is a nonfiction psychology book on cults, by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by Robert Jay Lifton. The book was published by Jossey-Bass in 1996 in hardcover format...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Non-fiction

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Mental Radio

Mental Radio: Does it work, and how? (1930) was written by the American author Upton Sinclair. This book documents Sinclair's test of psychic abilities of Mary Craig Kimbrough, his second wife, while she was in a state of profound depression with a...

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x Genre:: Non-fiction,; Psychology

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Crazy Therapies

Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? is a nonfiction book by psychologist Margaret Singer, Ph.D. and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., published by Jossey-Bass in 1996. The work explores a myriad of wildly controversial claims often made in the...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Non-fiction

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Captive Hearts, Captive Minds

Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships is a nonfiction psychology book dealing with cults, by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, Ph.D., and Michael Langone. The book was published by Hunter...

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x Genre:: Psychology,; Non-fiction

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