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Professional Profiles

Paul K. Eckstein, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

	Paul K. Eckstein (B.A., Lehman College, City University of New 
York) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Adj.) teaching Freshman Honors in Philosophy at the Brooklyn Center campus of Long Island University. He has taught philosophy at Boston College, and is now working toward his Ph.D. in philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. His writings have been published in Cultural Hermeneutics, American Sociological Review, and Science & Society. 
	
	Since 1988, he has also worked as Business Manager of Family Process, Inc., where he manages Family Process and Family Systems Medicine, the leading journals in the family therapy field. It was in this capacity that Mr. Eckstein met the American Family FoundationÕs Dr. Margaret Singer, one of AmericaÕs foremost therapists and practitioners of family therapy as well as first among cult experts. In Family Process board meetings the two held Òmany fascinating conversations,Ó one upshot of which was her proposal that the board make a grant, to help expand its circulation, to the Cultic Studies Journal. Mr. Eckstein administered the grant to Dr. Michael Langone, they Òhit it off really well,Ó and he was invited by Dr. Langone to a ground-breaking one-day meeting at AFF president Herbert RosedaleÕs New York office in May 1991 with Professor Johannes Aagaard, the Danish cult authority who publishes Dialog, EuropeÕs best-known journal on cultic phenomena. From that meeting will come a seminal paper for the CSJ, of which transcription and editing have been entrusted to Mr. Eckstein. His former position as Managing Editor for the Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd., where he was house editor for G. C. BoyceÕs extraordinary five-volume bibliographical work Literature of Medieval History, a standard reference work in its field, is no doubt one of his best qualifications for this responsibility.
	
	Mr. Eckstein is Chairman of the Cultural Implications Study Group of AFF, which considers the political and cultural problems presented by cults and cult-like phenomena in society. From his perspective, some cultic manipulations are glosses on techniques used in other areas in society. He finds a satisfying challenge in teaching his own students, many of them Haitians, Dominicans, Russians, and Southeast Asians hungry for tools to enable them to distinguish between nonsense and reason. Training people to be skeptics, not cynics Ñ Òthe healthiest attitude in the public arenaÓ Ñ he believes, is the best prevention.
	
	At the May 1992 AFF meeting in Alexandria, VA, Mr. Eckstein was moved by the sad comments of parents whose children are not yet out of cults. As a new father himself, he understands what so many of his fellow academics still fail to grasp. He finds contentment in AFF membership: ÒWeÕre all part of the helping professions.Ó 
 
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