Cult Girls

CULT GIRLS: MANSON FAMILY WOMEN & GIRLS' BIOS, PSYCHOLOGY & CRIMES by Dr. Paul Dawson presents the shocking story of young women and girls who joined the pseudo-hippie Charles Manson Family cult in the late-1960s. CULT GIRLS presents the biographies of the Manson cult women and girls. The psychology behind the Manson Family from the viewpoint of women and girls is detailed. The Manson Family crimes are revealed. Dr. Dawson & Charles Manson's prison interviews are included. Dr. Dawson brings a forensic-clinical psychologist's perspective on understanding the development of Manson's cult. CULT GIRLS reveals the deeper psychology behind the Manson Family. Dr. Paul Dawson explains the forming of the Manson Family, which was 5:1 girls-to-guys. A particular emphasis is on the development and life passages of the young women in the Manson Family. Many of the girls Manson recruited for his hippie-murder cult seemed to be wild-and-crazy teenagers, hippie girls stoned on drugs, with parental issues, caught up in an identity-crisis turmoil which Manson exploited. Yet the Manson Family kids were often educated and from middle-class homes. This book follows their lives from the late-1960s until now. Some continued a criminal pattern, and others went straight in later life. Dr. Dawson provides a rare, exciting, and fascinating investigation and assessment inside the dangerous, paradoxical Manson Family cult. CULT GIRLS presents the traumatizing, astonishing admissions and scandalous interview comments of the psychopathic-serial killer, Charles Manson, with a focus on revealing Charles Manson's girls and the deeper psychology of the Manson Family. Extensive photos. He was the wild-eyed, scraggly-haired Dark Prince of the 1960s. Manson was the demon-hippie, psycho-serial-killer-by-proxy of the Woodstock era who sent his "Manson Family" of fanatical, cult-crazed robots out to commit multiple homicides in the mansions of Los Angeles. Charles Manson, an alarming, terrifying paradox, was one of the most dangerous serial killers in the American history of crime. Dr. Dawson conducted a series of interviews with Charles Manson, the poster boy for killer-cult leaders, incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, in September 1988. The focus of this book is on the psychology of the Manson Family, bios of the Manson Family women and girls, the Manson Family crimes, and Dr. Dawson & Charles Manson's prison interviews. In CULT GIRLS, Dr. Dawson provides a unique, sensational, and spellbinding investigation and assessment inside the treacherous, enigmatic mind of this infamous icon of criminal evil. Manson's depraved aura, the repulsion of this homicidal-cult guru, the cult-kingpin murder rampage is investigated in depth. Dr. Dawson reveals Manson's darkest secrets, elicits Manson Family confessions, confronts and provokes the murderer by probing his mind and challenging Manson's-spooky justifications. Manson, an enigma, is evaluated, and his cryptic crimes are explored. Psychological concepts illuminate persuasive, lucid light on Manson's and his cult's ghastly crimes of assault, torture, and mass murder. Dr. Dawson earned a Ph. D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City. He has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; he was a chief psychologist of a state prison system; he has been in private practice & consulting in New York. Dr. Dawson has written over 60 books.