Resources: Resources in Psychology of New Religions Movements
 
 

Black, Albert. “Jonestown: Two Faces of Suicide: A Durkheimian Analysis.” Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 20, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 285-306.

Brown, Norman R., Lance J. Rips, and Steven K. Shevel. “The Subjective Dates of Natural Events in Very Long-term Memory.” Cognitive Psychology 17, no. 2 (April 1985): 139-177.

Bynum, Jack E. and William Thompson. “November 18, 1978 in Jonestown: Statistical Effects of Micro Demographic Event.” Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 7 (1979): 45-57.

Dunning, Christine M. and Milton N. Silva. “Disaster-Induced Trauma in Rescue Workers.” Victimology 5, no. 2 (supp. 4) (1980): 287-297.

Dwyer, Philip M. “An Inquiry into the Psychological Dimensions of Cult Suicide.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 9, no. 2 (Summer 1979): 120-127.

Harrary, Keith. “The Truth About Jonestown.” Psychology Today 25 (March 1992): 62-69; reprinted in Religious Cults in America. Ed. Robert Emmet Long. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1994, pp. 10-20.

Hochman, John. “Miracle, Mystery, and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination.” Psychiatric Annals 20, no. 4 (April 1990): 179-184, 187.

Hoyt, Michael F. “Observations Regarding Patients’ Reactions to the Jonestown Massacre and the Moscone-Milk Assassinations.” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 9, no. 2 (April 1981): 303-309.

Jones, David R. “Secondary Disaster Victims: The Emotional Effects of Recovering and Identifying Human Remains.” American Journal of Psychiatry 142, no. 3 (March 1985): 303-307.

Jorgensen, Danny. “The Social Construction and Interpretation of Deviance: Jonestown and the Mass Media.” Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 (1980): 309-332.

Kroth, Jerry. “Recapitulating Jonestown.” Journal of Psychohistory 11, no. 3 (Winter 1985): 383-93.

Lasaga, Jose I. “Death in Jonestown: Techniques of Political Control by a Paranoid Leader.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 10, no. 4 (Winter 1980): 210-13.

Nesci, Domenico Arturo. The Lessons of Jonestown: An Ethnopsychoanalytical Study of Suicidal Communities. Rome: Società Editrice Universo, 1999.

Osherow, Neal. “Making Sense of the Nonsensical: An Analysis of Jonestown.” In Readings about the Social Animal, 7th edition. Ed. Elliot Aronson. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1995. Available online at http://www.academicarmageddon.co.uk/library/OSHER.htm.

Stack, Steven. “The Effect of the Jonestown Suicides on American Suicide Rates.” Journal of Social Psychology 119, no. 1 (February 1983): 145-46.

Ulman, Richard B. and D. Wilfred Abse. “The Group Psychology of Mass Madness: Jonestown.” Political Psychology 4, no. 4 (December 1983): 637-61.



 
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