Peer reviewed psychology papers on the topic of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Spencer, J. (1975). The Mental Health of Jehovah’s Witnesses. British Journal of Psychiatry, 126(6), 556–559. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.126.6.556

Ransom, H. J., Monk, R. L., Qureshi, A., & Heim, D. (2021). Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery. Pastoral Psychology, 70(1), 53–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-020-00935-0

Ransom, H. J., Monk, R. L., & Heim, D. (2022). Grieving the Living: The Social Death of Former Jehovah’s Witnesses. Journal of Religion and Health, 61(3), 2458–2480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01156-8

Hookway, N. S., & Habibis, D. (2015). ‘Losing my religion’: Managing identity in a post-Jehovah’s Witness world. Journal of Sociology (Melbourne, Vic.), 51(4), 843–856. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783313476981

Rashid, F., & Barron, I. (2023). Jehovah’s witnesses response to child sexual abuse: a critique of organisational behaviour and management policies (1989-2020). The Journal of Sexual Aggression, 29(1), 118–139. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2021.2018513

Jindra, I. W. (2008). Religious Stage Development Among Converts to Different Religious Groups. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 18(3), 195–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508610802115768

Testoni, I., Bingaman, K., Gengarelli, G., Capriati, M., De Vincenzo, C., Toniolo, A., Marchica, B., & Zamperini, A. (2019). Self-Appropriation between Social Mourning and Individuation: a Qualitative Study on Psychosocial Transition among Jehovah’s Witnesses. Pastoral Psychology, 68(6), 687–703. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-019-00871-8

Murphy, J., Holt, N., Towers, S., & Alqadi, A. (2025). Piecing Everything Together Again: Exploring the Experiences of Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses and How to Support Them. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2521569

Greenough, C. (2024). Memoirs of impossible identities: Exploring biographical narratives of gay ex-Jehovah’s witnesses. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241297115