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.

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

The line between delusion and what the rest of us believe may be blurrier than we think.

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

‘It never stops shaping you’: the legacy of child sexual abuse – and how to survive it

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

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.

Retelling the stories we believe about ourselves. This book by Curt Thompson explores the alienating power of shame, and how we can take action to combat its isolating and disconnecting effects on our lives.

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