Dr. Margaret Singer: An Evalutation of Her Work

Footnotes:

1) Sir Charles Dilke, Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English Speaking Countries During 1866-1867. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1869, p. 138-139. See also Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith,1981, p. 439-440.

2) Margaret Thaler Singer and Edgar Schein, "Projective Test Responses of Prisoners of War Following Repatriation" in Psychiatry:Journal for theStudy of Interpersonal Processes, v.21, no.4, Nov. 1958, p. 384-385.

3) Margaret Thaler Singer, "Coming out of the Cults" Psychology Today, Jan. 1979, p. 72-80.

4) Julie Christofferson v. Church of Scientology of Portland et al, In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon; July-August 1979.

5) See Anson D. Shupe and David G. Bromley, "Witches, Moonies, and Accusations of Evil" in Thomas Robbing and Dick Anthony, eds. In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America. New York, Transaction Books, 1981.

6) See for instance J. Thomas Ungerleider and David Wellisch, "Coercive Persuasion (Brainwashing) , Religious Cults, and Deprogramming" in Psychiatry, 136, March 1979 p. 279-282.

7) For a statistical survey conducted by the Church of Scientology within a sample of its own membership see Church of Scientology of California, What is Scientology? Los Angeles, 1978, p. 221-260, which provides details on the Scientologists' social background, education, religious background, marital status, patterns of drug addiction, rates of absenteeism from work, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, welfare dependancy and such like. According to these figures, based on a sample of some 3,028 Scientologists taken in 1977, 80.15% reported that they either did not drink at all, or infrequently (at most monthly) . 13.9% drank only weekly. 98.2% stated that they took no drugs at all; only 0.8% stated that they were taking some drugs (including medical prescription drugs) . 90.5% stated that they were not receiving welfare benefits (including children's allowances, family allowances, pensions, and sundry benefits) .

8) Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony, "Brainwashing and the Persecution of Cults, " in Journal of Religion and Heal th, v. 19, no.1, Spring 1980, p. 66.