Resources: Resources in Psychology of New Religions Movements
 
 
  • Barker, Eileen. “Religious Movements: Cult and Anticult Since Jonestown.”  Annual Review of Sociology 12 (1986): 329-346.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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): 383-393.
  • Lasaga, Jose I. “Death in Jonestown: Techniques of Political Control by a Paranoid Leader.” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 10, no. 4 (Winter 1980): 210-213.
  • 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. Available online.
  • Stack, Steven. “The Effect of the Jonestown Suicides on American Suicide Rates.” Journal of Social Psychology 119, no. 1 (February 1983): 145-146.
  • Ulman, Richard B. and D. Wilfred Abse. “The Group Psychology of Mass Madness: Jonestown.” Political Psychology 4, no. 4 (December 1983): 637-661.

 



 
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