Gangs or Cults?
This text is a summary of the presentation delivered by Miguel Perlado at the Annual Conference of the Cultic Studies Association, in Edmonton (Canada), 2004. A comparative analysis between the dynamics of youth gangs and cultic groups is presented, contrasting their similarities and their differences from a clinician perspective.
What do Spanish psychologists know about cults?
This text summarizes a study led by Miguel Perlado between 2016 and 2017 within the framework of the Working Group on Cultic Drifts of the Official College of Psychology of Catalonia (COPC). The study was conducted across all professional psychology colleges in Spain to assess licensed psychologists’ technical knowledge of the cult phenomenon.
Cultic Relationships as a Form of Psychological Maltreatment and Subjugation
This text is a summary of the presentation delivered by Miguel Perlado at the International Cultic Studies Association Annual Conference (Trieste, Italy, July 4–6, 2013), featuring a comparative analysis between intimate partner abuse and cultic abuse from a clinical and psychopathological perspective.
Myths and False Ideas About “Cults”
Material taken from a presentation delivered by Miguel Perlado, founder and president of the AIIAP, at the 4º Encuentro Nacional sobre Sectas (Valencia, 2018), examining the common myths surrounding cults and cultic attachment.
Conceptions of Humanity
The rapid scientific and technological advances of recent centuries have profoundly changed humanity’s understanding of itself. Through their scientific revolutions, Copernicus and Darwin transformed the conception of the human being: “The Earth is not the center of the universe” and “The human being is also only an animal.” Today, the fields in which questions concerning human nature and the need for ethical limits are most intensively debated include biogenetics, where the human genome can be copied and altered; medical ethics, including assisted suicide and preimplantation genetic diagnosis; brain research, which raises the question of how free the human will is;