Dieter Rohmann, MA Psychology, lives and works in Munich, Germany. In the early 1980s, he was involved in setting up and managing a project for Western dropouts in Goa/India. The focus of this work was both the rescue and counseling of drug addicts, mentally disturbed people, and disillusioned sense seekers from various spiritual communities and cults, and their repatriation in close cooperation with Western embassies and consulates in India. In 1984 he returned to Germany where he started to work as an exit counselor and cult-recovery consultant.

A seven-month involvement with the Children of God (COG) in 1979 was a profound experience for him. Until the present day, this has informed his work in this complicated field encompassing new religious movements, esoteric groups, fundamentalist groups, guru movements, high-control groups on the cultic/totalitarian spectrum. From 1984 to 1987 he worked at what was then the only cult-recovery center in Europe (Johanneshof e.V.) near Bonn.

Between 1988 and 1990 he obtained his high school degree in evening classes in order to study psychology at the University of Eichstätt. In January 1999 he obtained his university degree in psychology and completed his studies with empirical research entitled “https://www.academia.edu/39966850/Possible_Predisposition_for_Cult_Involvement.”

Dieter works exclusively with people who left or are trying to leave a cult, people who were born into a cult and are now trying to walk their own path, people who experienced spiritual/religious abuse, and partners and family members of people involved in cults.
Over the decades he has developed several psychotherapeutic concepts such as his “https://www.academia.edu/39966901/The_Three_Step_Model.” He has given numerous talks and interviews and has led seminars and workshops in Europe with and for cult members, former cult members and their families.

He is deeply thankful to all of the former cult members he has been able to accompany over these now more than 40 years. They have made him understand this difficult field better and encouraged him to continue his work in the field until today.