Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman

Infobox Person
name = James Siegelman


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occupation = Author, Snapping
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Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he termes "cults" in America.

Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult practices" and also received the Leo J. Ryan Award for his work.

Education

*B.A., Harvard University, Philosophy (with honors)

Publications

Books

With Flo Conway, Siegelman wrote :
*"Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change"
*"Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America's Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives."
*"Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics"

Articles

* [http://www.dci.dk/?artikel=603 Information Disease: Effects of Covert Induction and Deprogramming] , by Flo Conway, James H. Siegelman, Carl W. Carmichael, and John Coggins, "", 1986

Awards

*Fiske Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge
*Leo J. Ryan Award, with Flo Conway

References

External links

* [http://conwayandsiegelman.stillpointpress.net/ Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman] , Stillpoint Press

ee also

* Snapping (book)
* Norbert Wiener
* Flo Conway
*Anti-cult movement


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