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Book
2025: Protestant Clergy Sexual Misconduct and Intercultural Pastoral Care: Invisible Mask, by AHyun Lee
2025: Emergent Dharma: Asian American Feminist Buddhists on Practice, Identity, and Resistance, by Sharon A. Suh, PhD (ed.)
2025: Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit, by Brene Brown, PhD, MSW
2025: Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience ("Buddhism and Abuses of Power", p. 417-420), by Donald Mitchell and Sarah Jacoby
2025: Restart and Restore: A Journal for Survivors of Manipulation, by Rachel Bernstein, LMFT, MSEd
2025: Practicing Safe Zen: Navigating the Pitfalls on the Road to Liberation, by Julie Seido Nelson
2024: On Gaslighting, by Kate Abramson
2024: Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us, by Matthew Remski
2023: Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse: A Workbook for Recovery and Growth, by Gillie Jenkinson
2023: On Our Best Behavior, the Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to be Good, by Elise Loehnen
2023: Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path, The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, by Connie Zweig, Ph.D.
2023: Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better, by Myisha Cherry
2023: Touched Out - Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control, by Amanda Montei
2023: The #MeToo Effect, What Happens When We Believe Women, by Leigh Gilmore
2023: Truth and Repair, How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, by Judith L. Herman, M.D.
2022: Girlhood, by Melissa Febos
2022: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, by Gabor Mate, M.D. with Daniel Mate
2022: You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience, An Anthology, Tarana Burke and Brene Brown (Eds.)
2022: Untangling Karma: Intimate Zen Stories on Healing and Trauma, by Judith Ragir
2021: Atlas of the Heart, Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, by Brene Brown, PhD, MSW
2021: Cultish, The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell
2020: The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, Roxanne Gay (Ed.)
2020: Cassandra Speaks, When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes, by Elizabeth Lesser
2020: How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community, by Mia Birdsong
2019: Practice And All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond, by Matthew Remski
2019: Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters, by Rebecca Solnit
2019: Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse: Creating Healthy Christian Cultures, by Lisa Oakley & Justin Humphreys
2019: Down Girl, the Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Mann
2019: Buddhism and Whiteness, Critical Reflections, by George Yancy & Emily McRae, ed.
2019: Sex and Violence in Tibetan Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of Sogyal Rinpoche, by Mary Finnigan and Rob Hogendoorn
2019: Fallout: Recovering from Abuse in Tibetan Buddhism, by Tahlia Newland
2019: American Dharma, Buddhism Beyond Modernity, by Ann Gleig
2018: Karmamudra: The Yoga of Bliss, Sexuality in Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism, by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
2018: Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World, by Michele Gelfand
2017: Your Silence Will Not Protect You, by Audre Lorde
2017: Why Won’t You Apologize? Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts, by Harriet Lerner, PhD.
2017: Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives, by Leigh Gilmore
2017: Birth in Buddhism, The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, by Amy Paris Langenberg
2017: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Ed.)
2017: The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men, by Robert Jensen
2017: Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard
2016: Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse, by Shannon Thomas, LCSW
2016: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg
2016: Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, by Rev.angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah, PhD.
2015: Big Magic: Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2015: The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
2014: The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison
2014: Expressive Writing, Words that Heal, James W. Pennebaker, PhD
2013: Blind to Betrayal, Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren’t Being Fooled, by Jennifer Freyd & Pamela Birrell
2012: Biblio/Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process: A Handbook, by Arleen McCarty Hynes and Mary Hynes-Berry
2012: The Dynamics of Conflict: A Guide to Engagement and Intervention, by Bernard Mayer
2008: Eyes Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path, by Mariana Caplan
2004: Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma & Emotional Upheaval, by James W. Pennebaker, PhD
2004: Art Heals: How Creativity Heals the Soul, by Shaun McNiff
2004: The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth, by Natalie Goldberg
2003: Cults In Our Midst, The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace, by Margaret Thaler Singer
2002: Communion, The Female Search for Love, by bell hooks
2001: Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center, by Michael Downing
2000: Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Live, by Louise Desalvo
2000: The Psychology of Mature Spirituality (Chapter 4: “Spiritual Abuse: When good people do bad things”, Demaris S. Wehr) by Polly Young-Esendrath & Melvin E. Miller (Eds.)
1997: Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, by Judith L. Herman, M.D.
1995: Art As a Way of Knowing: A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment through Creativity, by Pat B. Allen
1994: Moving Beyond Words, by Gloria Steinem
1993: The Guru Papers, Masking Authoritarian Power, by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
1991: Meeting the Shadow, the Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, ed/s Connie Zweig, Ph.D. and Jeremiah Abrams
1989: Sex in the Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power—Therapists, Doctors, Clergy, Teachers, and Others—Betray Women’s Trust, by Peter Rutter
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Buddhadharma
Carol Merchasin
Cult
2023: Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse: A Workbook for Recovery and Growth, by Gillie Jenkinson
2021: Cultish, The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell
2003: Cults In Our Midst, The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace, by Margaret Thaler Singer
Dharmadatta
Lion's Roar
Other
2016: “The opposite of rape culture is nurturance culture” – Nora Samoran. NoraSamaran.com
