Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- 1. The Charismatic Group -- What Is a Charismatic Group? -- A Research Perspective -- I: FORCES IN THE CHARISMATIC GROUP -- 2. Group Cohesiveness -- A Clinical Model -- A Charismatic Religious Sect: The Divine Light Mission -- 3. Shared Beliefs -- Communities of Shared Belief -- Shared Beliefs in the Unification Church -- 4. Altered Consciousness -- Meditation -- Drug-Induced Altered Consciousness -- Social Induction -- II: A MODEL OF THE CHARISMATIC GROUP -- 5. Biology and Behavior -- The Relief Effect -- Evidence in Contemporary Sects -- Ethologic Observations -- 6. The Cult as a Social System -- Transformation -- Monitoring -- Feedback -- Boundary Control -- III: CASE HISTORIES OF CHARISMATIC GROUPS -- 7. Trouble at the System's Boundary -- Jonestown -- MOVE -- 8. A Religious Sect: The Unification Church -- A History of the Sect -- Induction -- Family and Marital Structure -- Leaving the Sect -- 9. The Millenium Approaches -- Waco and Antigovernmental Paranoia -- Aum Shinrikyo -- Heaven's Gate -- Suicide, Murder, and Immolation -- IV: SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE -- 10. The Nature of Healing Movements -- Finding a Perspective -- The Psychology of Membership -- 11. Alternative Healing in the Medical Mainstream -- The Christian Medical and Dental Society -- The Self-Help Clinic: Impact on Institutional Care -- 12. The AA Example -- The Charismatic Gift of Alcoholics Anonymous -- The Fully Evolved Healing Group -- APPENDIX A: The Charismatic Group: A Summary -- APPENDIX B: The Charismatic Group: Examples -- APPENDIX C: Chronology of the Studies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.