Arthur J. Deikman
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| Arthur J. Deikman, M.D. | |
| Born | 1931 United States |
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| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | psychiatry |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco |
| Alma mater | Harvard College Harvard Medical School |
| Known for | The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society |
Arthur J. Deikman is professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology[1]. He is also a contributor to The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
His book The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society is used as part of the curriculum for the course "Cults and New Religious Movements" at St. Francis Xavier University[2]. It is a cited reference for the article "Self-Sealing Doctrines, the Misuse of Power, and Recovered Memory", by psychologist Linda Riebel[3]. It is a cited reference in the Encyclopedia of Psychology, and is quoted in the article on cults, where the article asserts that: "Certain types of political groups and terrorist organizations are still other examples of "cults" that defy the common definition of the term."[4].
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[edit] Education
- Harvard College
- Harvard Medical School
- Board Certified, Psychiatry, Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
[edit] Published works
[edit] Books
- Personal Freedom: On Finding Your Way to the Real World, 1976
- The Observing Self (book), 1983
- Evaluating Spiritual and Utopian Groups (book), 1988
- The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society, 1990
- Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat (book), 2003, excerpted
[edit] Articles
- Arthur Deikman on Mystic Experience, "Mystic Experience and Two Modes of Consciousness", adapted from the work of Arthur J. Deikman, M.D.
- Article, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1996
- I = Awareness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3 (4), pp. 350-6.
- Spirituality Expands a Therapist's Horizons
- The Evaluation of Spiritual and Utopian Groups, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 3, 8-18 (1983), Abstract
- Treating Former Members of Cults
[edit] References
- ^ JHP website, Sage Publications, Arthur Deikman, Affiliations: School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
- ^ "Cults and New Religious Movements", Dr. Annette J. Ahern, St. Francis Xavier University, RELS 225/SOCI 226, Section 11.
- ^ "Self-Sealing Doctrines, the Misuse of Power, and Recovered Memory", Linda Riebel, Transactional Analysis Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, January 1996, pp. 40-45.
- ^ Cults, Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Dr. Arthur Deikman, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, is one of many psychologists who has observed cultic behavior in many areas of society other than in extremist religious groups. In the introduction to his 1990 book, The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society, Deikman asserted that "behavior similar to that which takes place in extreme cults takes place in all of us," and suggested that "the longing for parents persists into adulthood and results in cult behavior that pervades normal society."
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Dr. Arthur Deikman, author's personal website
- Interviewed at his home by DC on December 21, 1997, Crooked Cucumber
- The Human Givens Institute, "Exploring the Cult in Culture"
- Commentary on Deikman's Essays - "Deautomatization and the Mystic Experience", "Bimodal Consciousness and the Mystic Experience", Sandra Stahlman, 1992
