Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over

by Karla McLaren and Janja Lalich

Book Overview

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group.

In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138239747
• ISBN13: 9781138239746
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"