Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry. Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road. This book provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioural patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

Kim McGregor, Chief Victims Advisor, has written a practical and compassionate guide for adult survivors of sexual abuse.

An examination of the dynamics of exploitative persuasion and counselling needs. Barri Leslie 2000

Amanda Montell is a linguist, with a father who left a cult. She explores the different ways cults create their tribe, focusing on the use of the language of insiders and outsiders. A fascinating examination of this critical aspect of coercive control. An easy and light hearted, though thought provoking read

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A book about the two most important words in the English language - I’m sorry - and why it is so hard for many people to say them.

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Work from one of the worlds most influential psychiatrists, feminists and trauma experts comes the book asking victims of trauma "how do you envisage justice for you?"

Highly Recommended.

Growing up in a cult, getting out, and starting over. Interviews were with 65 children born or raised in cults all over the world.

Wade Mullen examines the tactics used by abusive individuals and groups to keep their victims quiet and to shut down any complaints or examination of the harm they do. 

Highly recommended.

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Judith Herman is the mother of trauma research. This book changed my view of the role of trauma in society, and the actions victims, and bystanders can take to aid the recovery of those impacted by trauma.

High Recommended.

Clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable.

The urgent work of the brain after a traumatic event is to suppress it, through forgetting or self-blame, to avoid being ostracised. But the body does not forget. This excellent book by psychiatrist Bessel Van Der Kolk unpacks the neuroscience.

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This book by Janja Lalich & Madeleine Tobias explores the seductive draw that leads people into cults, provides guidelines for assessing what happened, and tools for getting back on track.

From the writers behind the Harvard Negation Project comes this little book filed with tips about how to have those very hard conversations without the whole thing dissolving into chaos. Centrepoint kids have a lot of hard conversations to have with the people who let them down, and this little book might help.

Steve Hassan's first book is a solid description of the tactics used by harmful groups to control people. This is one of the books that most cult survivors say helped them on their road

ICSA provides information, education, and help to those adversely affected by or interested in cultic and other high-control groups and relationships.