Arthur J. Deikman

Arthur J. Deikman, M.D., is professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 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. It is a cited reference for the article "Self-Sealing Doctrines, the Misuse of Power, and Recovered Memory", by psychologist Linda Riebel. 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.".

Education

 * Harvard College
 * Harvard Medical School
 * Board Certified, Psychiatry, Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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

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