by JAVA 11 Replies latest jw friends
Java,
Thanks for sharing this. The article is excellent, and I'm especially curious to look at one of the books referenced, Addiction and the Fundamentalist Experience by R. Yao. Until reading this, I did not even know there was a group called Fundamentalists Anonymous.
Ginny
We've had recent threads on two of the points in this article:
#1Former members of restrictive religious groups are of course subject to the same pathogenic factors as everyone else: such a background is not an all-inclusive explanation for every psychological problem someone who once belonged to such a group may experience. But, the past being prologue to the present, current problems may well have some connection with membership in the now repudiated group.
#2A former member should be encouraged to look at the positive as well as negative aspects of having belonged to a restrictive religious group. It may be helpful to think of the involvement as a developmental stage that was important, in ways both good and bad, in shaping one's life. As with any other developmental stage, the former belief system was eventually outgrown.
Obviously, there are many points of excellence in this article - a keeper for sure. thanks Java.
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