The Council on Mind Abuse
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| non-profit organization | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Anti-cult movement |
| Genre | Psychology |
| Founded 📆 | 1979 |
| Founder 👔 | Ian Haworth |
| Defunct | 1992 |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Ian Haworth, President Rob Tucker, Director |
| Services | Cult education and consultation |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | [Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 665: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). ] |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
The Council on Mind Abuse (COMA) was a Canadian non-profit organization promoting education about cults[1][2][3] from 1979 to 1992.
COMA's founder and president was Ian Haworth, an international anticult activist from the United Kingdom.[4] In 1984, Haworth wrote to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to warn doctors in Ontario about a mass-mailing from Narconon, Scientology's drug and alcohol program.[5] Haworth has said he and his coworkers decided to found the organization based on their own, and their friends', experiences with cults.[6] Robert C. Tucker assumed the role of director in 1987 when Haworth returned to London to found the Cult Information Centre, a non-sectarian, educational charity.[4] In 1992, "bankrupted by lawsuits with the Church of Scientology and EST", the organization was dissolved.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Jenkins, Philip (2000). Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. Oxford University Press. p. 324. ISBN 9780199923724. Search this book on
- ↑ Tabor, James D.; Gallagher, Eugene V. (1995). Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. University of California Press. pp. 147, 170. ISBN 9780520919181. Search this book on
- ↑ Shupe, Anson; Darnell, Susan E. (2011). Agents of Discord: Deprogramming, Pseudo-Science, and the American Anticult Movement. Transaction. p. 198. ISBN 9781412808873. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "What should be done about cults?". Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ↑
Lindsay Scotton (June 24, 1986). "Scientology 'purification' rite used by anti-addiction centres". The Toronto Star.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "COMA Helps Sufferers of Mind Abuse". Ottawa Citizen. 1 August 1979. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ↑ Scott, Jamie S. (2012). The Religions of Canadians. University of Toronto Press. p. 402. ISBN 9781442605169. Search this book on
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