Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over By: Karla McLaren, Janja Lalich [Audiobook]

Author: Janja Lalich, Karla McLaren
Narrated by: Kelly Burke

In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book. The authors explore fundamental questions about human nature, human development, group dynamics, abuse and control, and triumphs of the human spirit. 

• An exploration of the human spirit in the tensions between freedom and control
• Demonstrates cults as extensions of more typical human behaviors, both deviant and normal
• Primary author is the world’s leading authority on cults (Janjich) who has appeared on Meet the Press, CNN, the CBS Evening News, NPR’s Morning Edition and BBC’s Thinking Allowed 
• Courses: Deviance, Social Problems, Social Movements, Social Psychology, Sociology of Religion, Family, and Life Course, Social Work, Child Development, Health and Community Services, Nursing