text: Galanter, MarcMarc Galanter United States Psychiatry Galanter is director of the division of alcoholism and drug abuse in the department of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.[49][50] He is the editor of Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association,[51] and author of Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion.[52]
  Levine, Saul V.Saul V. Levine 1938– Canada Psychiatry Levine is a professor of psychiatry in Toronto, Canada.[53] He has researched cults and deprogramming, with work published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry,[54] and the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal.[55]
  Lifton, Robert JayRobert Jay Lifton 1926– United States Psychiatry Lifton is a psychiatrist who has focused his research in the area of coercive persuasion.[56] He wrote an article on the creation of cults for The Harvard Mental Health Letter,[57] and is the author of Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism,[58] and Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism.[59]
  Olsson, Peter A.Peter A. Olsson 1941– United States Psychiatry Olsson is a psychiatrist affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, where he is on staff as adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry.[60] He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.[60] In his research he has focused on the analysis of the framework and mindset of leaders of destructive cults and religious groups.[61][62]
  West, Louis JolyonLouis Jolyon West 1924–1999 United States Psychiatry West was a psychiatrist affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles.[63] He held positions of professor and chairman at the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA.[64] He contributed research on cults to publications including the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry,[65] and Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association.[51] West served on the advisory board of the Cult Awareness Network.
  Anthony, DickDick Anthony United States Psychology Anthony holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California[66] and has supervised research at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.[67][68] His research has been supported by agencies such as the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has frequently testified or acted as a consultant in court cases involving NRMs.[15]:xi He has been a leading critic of brainwashing and mind control theories and has defended NRMs, arguing that involvement in them has often been shown to have beneficial, rather than harmful effects.[68][69][70]
  Beit-Hallahmi, BenjaminBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi Israel Psychology Beit-Hallahmi graduated with a B.A. degree from Hebrew University, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University.[71] He has served as Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Haifa, and has held faculty roles in clinical and research capacities at The University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Hebrew University, Michigan State University, and Tel-Aviv University.[71] Beit-Hallahmi is the author of Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Bibliography, and co-author of The Social Psychology of Religion; he edited Research in Religious Behavior.[71] He has published scholarship analyzing practices within standards of researching new religious movements.[72]
  Dole, Arthur A.Arthur A. Dole United States Psychology Dole is a professor of psychology and education, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a board member of the International Cultic Studies Association's (ICSA's) board of directors and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the peer reviewed academic journal, the Cultic Studies Review. He contributed a chapter to the comprehensive work The Psychology of Terrorism, Volume III: Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives. Responding directly to 9/11.
  Eichel, SteveSteve Eichel United States Psychology Eichel is a psychologist known primarily for his work on destructive cults, coercive persuasion, mind control, brainwashing, and deprogramming. He is a former President of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the 2006-07 President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, the national membership academy comprising American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) Board-certified counseling psychologists. Eichel is the President of the Board of the International Cultic Studies Association(ICSA).
  Langone, MichaelMichael Langone 1947– United States Psychology Langone is the Executive Director of the International Cultic Studies Association(ICSA) and has written widely on alternative religious movements.[3]:v2 p147[73]
  Martin, Paul R.Paul R. Martin 1946–2009 United States Psychology A former member of the Great Commission Association of Churches group, Martin was a psychologist and the founder and Executive Director of the Christian Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center. He consulted with several institutions, published on cult-related subjects, and collaborated in fieldwork focusing on the prediction and treatment of psychological damage related to involvement with high-demand religious movements.[74]
  Miller, Jesse S.Jesse S. Miller 1940–2006 United States Psychology Miller taught a course in advanced hypnotherapeutic techniques, at UC Berkeley.[75] Miller specialized in analysis of hypnotherapy.