I found this small easy to read book so immensely useful when I was working through my own exit from a religious cult that I bought 6 extra copies to hand out to contacts and friends I met going through the same experiences.

Enroth describes case after case of persons traumatized by the forms of authority, elitism, manipulation, life-style and thought control, discipline and expulsion and the rest. The great value of these examples is that the reader going through the same (leaving a family that was that person's whole life and now suddenly alone without a world to quickly relate to anymore) that they are not alone or unique.

Not that this book is a mere litany of woes. Enroth comments on each case study and clarifies with some skill and common humanity what the real emotional and mental issues facing each victim are. He is helping both the reader in all-too-familiar situations understand themselves better, and also would-be helpers to understand them too.