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| name                    = Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.
| birth_date              = 1947 {{cn|date=September 2014}}
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| residence               = United States
| nationality             = American
| field                   = [[psychology]], [[cult]]s, [[new religious movements]]
| work_institution        = [[International Cultic Studies Association]]
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| known_for               = ''[[Recovery from Cults]]'', ''[[Cultic Studies Journal]]'', founding editor<ref name="csredit">{{cite web |url=http://www.icsahome.com/aboutus/boardscommittees |title=Board of Directors|last= |first= |publisher=ICSA |date= |website=International Cultic Studies Association |accessdate=19 September 2014}}</ref>
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| prizes                  = Leo J. Ryan Award, 1995
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'''Michael D. Langone''' is an American counseling [[psychologist]] who specialises in research about "[[cult]]ic" groups and [[psychological manipulation]].<ref name="Anthony1999">{{cite journal|last1=Anthony|first1=Dick|journal=Social Justice Research|volume=12|issue=4|year=1999|pages=421–456|issn=08857466|doi=10.1023/A:1022081411463}}</ref><ref name="Clarke2004">{{cite book|editor=Peter Clarke|title=Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DouBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP5|accessdate=18 September 2014|date=1 March 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-49970-0|page=29}}</ref> He is executive director of the [[International Cultic Studies Association]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3964846|title=Lakewood conference to explore cults, hate groups|last=Whaley|first=Monte|date=22 June 2006|accessdate=18 September 2014}}</ref> and founding editor of the journal ''[[Cultic Studies Journal]]'', later the Cultic Studies Review.<ref name=csredit /><ref name="CresswellWilson2012">{{cite book|author1=Jamie Cresswell|author2=Bryan Wilson|title=New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bvem38QO9y0C|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-63696-9}}</ref><ref>[http://www.csj.org/rg/rgperiodicals/rgperiodicals_csj.htm ICSA Periodicals]</ref>

Langone is author and co-author of several books and articles.  He first joined the International Cultic Studies Association (at that time known as the "American Family Foundation") in 1981.<ref name="Clarke2004" />

In 1995 he was honored as visiting scholar at [[Boston University]]'s Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute {{cn|date=September 2014}} He received the [[Cult Awareness Network]]'s Leo J. Ryan Award in the same year.<ref name="Raffaella2013">{{Cite web
| title = Michael D. Langone’s Interview
| author = Raffaella Di Marzio
| work = Spiritualità Religioni e Settarismi
| date = 19 November 2013
| accessdate = 2014-09-18
| url = http://dimarzio.info/en/archiv/finish/17-religious-freedom/19-michael-d-langone-s-interview.html
| quote = 
}} <!--The bio blurb above the interview seems to secondarily confirm Langone's status as a winner of this award.--> </ref>

== Theories ==
Langone writes that cults "need not be religious in nature but may be psychotherapeutic, political, or commercial".<ref name="Langone1995">{{cite book|author=Michael D. Langone|title=Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9xJDszg7cuwC|accessdate=18 September 2014|year=1995|publisher=W.W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-31321-5|page=introduction}}</ref> He presents three different models for conversion and then describes his own integrative model. The deliberative model states that people are said to join cults primarily because of how they view a particular group. Langone notes that this view is most favored among sociologists and religious scholars, the "psychodynamic model", popular with some mental health professionals, individuals choose to join for fulfillment of subconscious psychological needs, and the "thought reform model" states that people do not join because of their own psychological needs, but because of the group's influence through forms of [[psychological manipulation]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Langone |first=Michael |date=July 1996  |title=Clinical Update on Cults |url= |journal=Psychiatric Times  |publisher= |volume=XIII |issue=7 |pages= |doi= |accessdate=15 September 2014}}</ref>

Langone is a proponent of the theory of [[mind control]]. [[Anson D. Shupe|Anson Shupe]] and Susan Darnell describe the AFF, headed by Michael Langone as offering the most public support for the mind-control theory through its Cultic Studies Journal, a theory that Shupe questions .<ref name="ShupeStacey2000">{{cite book|author1=Anson D. Shupe|authorlink1=Anson D. Shupe|author2=William A. Stacey|author3=Susan E. Darnell|title=Bad Pastors: Clergy Misconduct in Modern America|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=e_bddofwUCAC|year=2000|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-8147-0|page=173}}</ref>

==Books ==
* ''[[Recovery from Cults|Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse]]'', 1995, Michael D. Langone (Editor), 1993, ISBN 0-393-70164-6
* ''Cults: What Parents Should Know: A Practical Guide to Help Parents With Children in Destructive Groups'', Ross and Langone, 1989, ISBN 0-8184-0511-2
* ''Captive Hearts, Captive Minds'': Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships, by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, Michael Langone, 1994, ISBN 0-89793-144-0, ISBN 978-0-89793-144-1
* ''Cultic Studies Journal: a Journal on Cults and Manipulative Techniques of Social Influence'', Michael Langone (Editor), ASIN B000JFOZTS
* ''Cultic Studies Review: An Internet Journal of Research, News & Opinion'', Michael Langone (Editor), ASIN B000GF1F9O
 
==Articles==
* [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/langone_michael_research_on_destructive_cults.htm Research on Destructive Cults], ''International Congress on Totalitarian Groups and Sects'', [[Barcelona, Spain]], 1993
* [http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p960714.html "Clinical Update on Cults"], ''[[Psychiatric Times]]'', July 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 7
* [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/chambers_william_gpa_apa.htm APA Presentation: The Group Psychological Abuse Scale], Presented to Division 36 (Psychology of Religion), American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, [[Toronto, Canada]], August 12, 1996, [[William V. Chambers]], Ph.D., Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., [[Peter Malinoski]], M.A.
* [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/langone_michael_introduction_cultsevangelicals.htm "Introduction to Special Issue on Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence"], ''[[Cultic Studies Review|Cultic Studies Journal]]'', 1985, Volume 2, Number 2, pages 231-234
* [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/dole_arthur_newagemovementfadormenace_abs.htm The New Age Movement: Fad or Menace?], [[Arthur A. Dole]], Ph.D., A.B.P.P., University of Pennsylvania, [[Michael D. Langone]], Ph.D., American Family Foundation, [[Steve Eichel|Steve K. D. Eichel]], Ph.D., RETIRN, ''[[Cultic Studies Review|Cultic Studies Journal]]'', 1990, Volume 7, Number 1, pages 69–91.
* [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/dole_author_newageharmcriticsexperts.htm Is the New Age Movement Harmless? Critics Versus Experts], [[Arthur A. Dole]], Ph.D., A.B.P.P., University of Pennsylvania, [[Michael D. Langone]], Ph.D., American Family Foundation, [[Steve Eichel|Steve K. D. Eichel]], Ph.D., RETIRN, Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1992
* ''[http://rc.cultweb.net/index.php?seite=/abuse.php Cults: Questions and Answers]'', 2005, ''[[Cultic Studies Review]]''
* ''[http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/langone_michael_legion_en0502.htm Reflections on the Legion of Christ: 2003-2006]'', Michael Langone, ICSA E-Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2006
* [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/langone_michael_term_cult_definitional_ambiquity.htm "The Definitional Ambiguity of “Cult” and ICSA’s Mission"]
* ''[http://rc.cultweb.net/index.php?seite=/abuse.php Deception, Dependency & Dread]'', 1998, Recovering Former Cultists' Support Network

==Presentations==
* [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/chambers_william_gpa_measure_abs.htm The Group Psychological Abuse Scale: A Measure of the Varieties of Cultic Abuse], ''[[Cultic Studies Review|Cultic Studies Journal]]'', Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993, [[William V. Chambers]], Ph.D., Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., [[Arthur A. Dole]], Ph.D., [[James W. Grice]], M.A.
* "Cults: A Clinical and Research Update", Undue Influence Conference, [[National Institute of Health]], January 17, 1997, [[Bethesda, MD]]
* "Theory and Cults", Conference Cults: Theory and Treatment Issues May 30, 1997, [[Philadelphia, PA]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_profiles/indiv/langone_michael.htm Michael Langone, Ph.D.], Profile, ''[[Cultic Studies Review]]''

==See also==
*[[List of cult and new religious movement researchers]]
{{Opposition to NRMs}}
{{New Religious Movements}}

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