sentences:  Dr. Deikman (d. 2013) was a professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Humanistic Psychology".The book 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.