LINKS & RESOURCES:

Suicide   |   Cult Recovery   |   Online Therapy

ONLINE SUPPORT
Online therapy is not appropriate if you feel suicidal or for other emergencies. If you need immediate help or are suicidal, these sites can help you for free:

Suicide Hotlines in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and other countries.

The Samaritans offer free confidential email, snail mail, and phone support to anyone feeling suicidal.

Teenagers, call Covenant House NineLine, 1-800-999-9999

If You Are Thinking About Suicide: Read This First.

CULT RECOVERY LINKS
Knapp Family Counseling: Articles on Spiritual Abuse Recovery, counseled over 2,000 former group members

CounterCultSearch.com: an excellent resource for finding cult recovery counselors, info, and more.

Online Video: Steven Alan Hassan, M.Ed. LMHC, NCC on Cult Recovery and Exiting

Steven Hassan, Cult Recovery Counselor

Rick Ross, Exit Counselor & Cult Information

Mike Doughney's Meditation Information Network on Transcendental Meditation. Every site I've founded has been a footnote to Mike Doughney's efforts, who first saw the potential of cult education on the Internet.

Mike Doughney's Ex-Cult.org

F.A.C.T.net

Joe Szimhart, Exit Counselor

Carol Giambalvo

Marin County, CA: Colleen Russell, MFT

Wellspring Retreat & In-Residence Recovery Center

ReFocus: Recovery from Trance

New Jersey

New York: Cult Hotline & Therapy Groups

London: Cult Information Center

Guidelines for Cult Recovery Therapists

Cult Legal Help
Law Firm Specializing in Cultic Abuse

Cult Research Links
International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)
Cult Awareness and Information Center
FACTNet
Guruphiliac.blogspot.com
Cosmic Connie's "Whilred Musings"
Arthur Deikman's Cults & Spirituality
Excellent blog by former Art of Living insider (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
Amma: Cult of the Hugging Saint
Twelve Tribes Ex: Excellent site branching out into other cults as well
Greasespot Café: The Way International (and related groups)
The Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult Blog
My Life at the Spiritual Rights Foundation Cult Blog
Carol Welch's "Toss and Ripple," including her memoirs of time in The Way International
NathanielB's new memoir blog of his experiences growing up in and finally escaping an Australian fundamentalist Christian revival cult
I Survived Armstrongism World Church of God
Creepy Hollows Awareness

Cult Articles & Media
Counseling for Cult "Walkaways"
Depersonalization & "Witnessing"
Disability after Cult Involvement
FACTNet: How I Healed
How to Be a Successful Cult Leader
Marriage & Children after the Cult
Psychopathology of a Cult Leader
The Wave: Film on Nazi Persuasion

INFORMATION ABOUT ONLINE THERAPY
Myths and Realities of Online Clinical Work
An article by the Third Clinical Case Study Group of the International Society for Mental Health Online
...Through this paper, we hope to illuminate the potential for online clinical work, and to share our evolving understanding of what is truly possible, despite the prevalent myths and realities which shape our thinking about online "therapy" and the nature of Internet-facilitated communication and behavior....

Dr. Michael Fenichel's Current Topics In Psychology is a great resource for psychological topics, including online therapy. See The Here and Now of Cyberspace and Online Psychotherapy: Technical Difficulties, Formulations, and Processes.

The Psychology of Cyberspace is a must read about the psychology of cyberspace. For psychotherapy online, see his articles Psychotherapy and Clinical Work in Cyberspace, and A 5-Dimension Model of Online and Computer-Mediated Psychotherapy. An index for all of his online articles.

Dr. Azy Barak has created a list of references about the internet and mental health. Also see his article Psychological Applications on the Internet: A Discipline on the Threshold of a New Millennium.

Storm A. King's articles on mental health issues online and online therapy.

Best Practices in e-Therapy is an informative series about ecounseling written by Dr. John Grohol of Psych Central.

The International Society For Mental Health Online (ISMHO) has written Suggested Principles for the provision of online mental health services.

The Clinical Case Study Group of ISMHO offers observations about online therapy in their paper, "Hypotheses about Online Psychotherapy and Clinical Work".

Metanoia — The ABC's of Internet Therapy offers practical information — oriented to the needs of clients — about online counseling: including what it is, how it works, and who it can help.