Cults and How to Get Out of Them. Recovery From Cults is published by W. W. Norton, New York & London (1993, 410 pp., £27.50 (hb)). The editor is Michael D. Langone. Michael Langone is Executive Director of the American Family Foundation and editor of its Cultic Studies Journal. From 1984 to 1987 he served on the American Psychological Association Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control.