No need to comment to purchase. There are very slight scratches on the outside, but the inside is clean. Please refrain from purchasing if you are sensitive to used books. Marlene Winell Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion Religion is supposed to be good for you. Yet people get hurt in religious systems, sometimes seriously. Leaving the Fold by Psychologist Dr. Marlene Winell equips readers to understand and recover from religious trauma. It has been a leading resource in psychology & religion studies for over 30 years. What is religious trauma? Have you been harmed by it? How do you heal? Trauma from authoritarian and controlling religious upbringings can take many forms. It can show up overtly as emotional, spiritual, and physical abuse, indoctrination of the young, or the marginalization of individuals or groups who don’t live their lives according to specific beliefs. Its symptoms can also be subtle, like anxiety, shame, guilt, and fear you are not living life according to the way religion has taught you.