Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships is a study of cults and abusive relationships by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, and Michael Langone.

[1] In her book Twisted Scriptures: Breaking Free from Churches that Abuse, Christian countercult author Mary Alice Chrnalogar cites Captive Hearts, Captive Minds and adds a note that the book is "excellent for former New Agers".

[2] The work is extensively cited in Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth's On the Edge: Political Cults Left and Right in their chapter on Marlene Dixon.

Other theories concerning new religious movements attribute free will and informed choice to the participants, and challenge the captivity/abuse model put forward by the authors here.

Writing for Library Journal, Bill Piekarski believes that the book "succeeds as an ambitious, comprehensive explanation of the cult experience and works well on several levels".