Betsy Dovydenas is an artist who painted and wrote her Story about joining a bogus church run by a bogus pastor.
Langone has spoken widely to dozens of lay and professional groups..
Dr.
He is also co-editor of ICSA\'s Cult Recovery: A Clinician\'s Guide to Working with Former Members and Families, published in 2017.
He has authored numerous articles in professional journals and books, including Psychiatric Annals, Business and Society Review, Sette e Religioni, Grupos Totalitarios y Sectarismo: Ponencias del II Congreso Internacional (the proceedings of an international congress on cults in Barcelona, Spain), Innovations in Clinical Practice: A Sourcebook, Handbook of Psychiatric Consultation with Children and Youth, Psychiatric News, and all of ICSA\'s periodicals.
He has been the chief designer and coordinator of ICSA\'s international conferences.
Langone is ICSA Today\'s Editor-in-Chief.
Currently, Dr.
He is co-author of Cults: What Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related Violence: What You Should Know.
He was the founder and editor of Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ), the editor of CSJ\'s successor, Cultic Studies Review, and editor of Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse.
Langone has been consulted by several hundred former cult members and/or their families.
Dr.
Since 1981, he has been Executive Director of International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), a tax-exempt research and educational organization concerned about psychological manipulation and cultic groups.
Langone, PhD, received a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
As though I\'d lose the ability to see the visions in my head and draw my dreams." Michael D. "As a painter I\'ve always considered it bad luck to censor myself.
Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Boreas Gallery in Brooklyn.
She has exhibited her work at the Berkshire Museum, the Painting Center in New York, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, the Meyerho.
Monoprints are her preferred medium.
Betsy has been a painter for 45 years.
She graduated Minnetonka High School, the University of Minnesota, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where she studied with Philip Wofford, Paul Resika, Willard Midgette, Annie Poor, and Mary Frank, among other artists.
About author(s): Betsy Dovydenas was born and raised in Excelsior, Minnesota, on Christmas Lake.
This book shows how it happened.
In short, she was brainwashed.
In more than 200 monoprints with narrative text, she tells the Story of being tricked, sweet-talked, coaxed, manipulated, conned, coerced and exploited.
Betsy Dovydenas is an artist who painted and wrote her Story about joining a bogus church run by a bogus pastor
