Table of Contents
1 Minority Religions and Counselling: An Overview
James A. Beckford and Sarah Harvey
Part I: Perspectives on Counselling
2 From the Curious to the Criminal: Diocesan Advisers' Requests for Counsel and Help
Pedr Beckley
3 Enlightened or insane? Insights and dilemmas of wearing a psychotherapist’s hat and a sociological hat in the field of new religious movements
Silke Steidinger
4 New Religious Movements and Systemic/Family Psychotherapy
Alastair Pearson
Part II: Practitioners’ Approaches
5 Therapy with Former Members of Destructive Cults
Lorna Goldberg
6 The Psychological Development and Consequences of Involvement with New Religious Movements: Counselling Issues for Members, Former Members and Families
Linda Dubrow-Marshall and Roderick Dubrow-Marshall
7 Show the Fly the Way Out of the Fly Bottle: Using Art and Philosophy to Counsel Those Impacted by Controversial New Social Movements
Joseph Szimhart
Part III: Member and Former Member Experiences
8 Pagan Experiences of Counselling and Therapy
Vivianne Crowley
9 Scientology Auditing: pastoral counselling or a religious path to total spiritual freedom
Eric Roux
10 How Counselling can Help Faith and Families
Simon Cooper
11 Counselling practices within The Family International (Children of God)
Abi Freeman
12 Scammers or Saviours?
Nicola Laaninen
13 Mindfulness and the YouTube Channel of the Mind
Maitreyabandhu
Part IV: Some Current Issues in the Counselling Field
14 Emotional Exchange: Anxiety to Hope in Two New Religious Movements
Charlotte Shaw
15 Attachment: Buddha and Bowlby
Joe Copestake
16 Twelve Step Mutual Aid: Spirituality, Vulnerability and Recovery
Wendy Dossett