““A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.” -Virginia Woolf

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Katharina Meredith is currently working towards a PhD in Community Psychology, studying the psychology of extremism and terrorism. She is particularly interested in how people leave extremist groups. She is a published author with a focus on outreach and education. From age 10 to age 20, she grew up in a small New Age cult, where she was separated from her parents, cut off from the outside world, taken to three different countries and helped build a time machine. The time machine never worked, and the guru eventually went to jail for child abuse.

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She is currently creating a workbook for recovery after group coercion, a book on undue influence and autonomy and a freelance writer on cultic groups and extremism. She offers psycho-education via video conferencing, conducts annual workshops in Atlanta, USA and Berlin, Germany, and is a support-group facilitator for victims of interpersonal violence.

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Her German website is katharinameredith.com. She has worked with the Open Minds Foundation, the International Cultic Studies Association,  InfoSekta, the Women’s Resource Center, the Eve Center, and a refuge organization in Switzerland. She does outreach at schools and speaks at universities and other functions.

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She lives in Atlanta with her husband, two children, two cats, her therapy pug, and a fish. Her hobbies include eating, traveling, writing poetry, talking to people, painting, and reading fantasy novels.