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- Dr. John G. Clark, a Harvard psychiatrist whose study of new religious sects in the 1970's raised public awareness of the overwhelming influence of some groups over their members, died on Oct. 7 at a nursing home in Belmont, Mass. He was 73 and had been suffering from a long illness, his family said.
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John 'Jack' Gordon Clark (1926–1999) was a Harvard psychiatrist known for his research on the alleged damaging effects of cults. [full citation needed] He was the target of harassment from the Church of Scientology after he testified against it to the Vermont legislature in 1976.
Oct 11, 1999 · Dr. John G. Clark of Weston, Mass., a psychiatrist who was among the first to note the damaging effects of membership in cults, died Thursday in a nursing home. He was 73.
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In 2001, John Clark was close to giving up entirely. It had been six years since his wife, Eileen had vanished from their New Mexico home. Not only had Eileen disappeared, but so too had their three children, Chandler, Hayden, and little two-year-old Rebekah. Six years and he still had no idea where they were.
As far as John was concerned, he had missed his final chance at finding them. Eileen had slipped through his grasp yet again and she’d taken the kids with her. Yet despite his initial resignation to a life without his family, he persevered. He had no idea that the coming years would bring more chances and sadly, more heartache.
The Clarks’ story began in February of 1995, when Eileen decided, out of nowhere, to take their seven, five, and two-year-old children and leave New Mexico for good. Before she left, she wrote a letter to her parents in Atlanta, warning them that she feared for her life and had to leave if she wanted her children to grow up with a mother.
For his part, John seemed to have no idea about any sort of threats he might have made upon his wife’s life. He certainly never would have hurt her or their children. Nevertheless, a pile of legal depositions from assorted friends and relatives soon emerged, each one more damning towards him than the last. There were some problems with these, howev...
These depositions, from people that John had only the barest knowledge of, described the various abuses that Eileen had suffered at the hands of her husband. Over the coming years, John would have to defend himself a number of times against those allegedly spurious charges. He even took two lie detector tests in that capacity.
Still, there was no proof of any physical abuse, no police reports, no arrest record. If John was abusing Eileen and there was all this anecdotal evidence from concerned friends and relatives, why had it never drawn the attention of any local law enforcement? No, whatever Eileen’s reasons for leaving, it was clear that physical abuse wasn’t one of ...
What followed was nearly two decades of pain, frustration, and more than anything else, resentment. John’s story eventually made the news and in time would even garner him a place on television when he visited the Dr. Phil talk show. In the end, though, the long arm of the media worked as much against John as it did in helping him find his lost fam...
Much of the next decades involved little more than conjecture and uncertainty when it came to his family’s whereabouts. It wasn’t until 2008 that John would get any sort of definitive answer. It came as he was making his way up a ladder to fix some blinds. John’s cell phone rang and the voice on the other line told him that they had found his famil...
Eileen had left her husband in 1995 and apparently decided that the only way she would be safe from him was to move herself and her children out of the country. She moved to Oxford, England and settled there. Though they found her in 2008, it would be another two years before the English would concede to extradite her to the US to face trial.
In England, the Clarks’ story was very different from the tale folks were telling in the United States. There, Eileen was seen as an innocent victim of an abusive husband who was forced to flee the country with her children. Her extradition was seen as equally unfair, especially when one considers that she’d sought the help of several civil liberti...
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Oct 18, 1999 · Dr. John G. Clark, a Harvard psychiatrist whose study of new religious sects in the 1970s raised public awareness of the overwhelming influence of some groups over their members, died on Oct. 7 at a nursing home in Belmont, Mass. He was 73 and had been suffering from a long illness, his family said.
Oct 18, 1999 · John G. Clark, a Harvard psychiatrist whose study of new religious sects in the 1970s raised public awareness of the overwhelming influence of some groups over their members, died on Oct. 7...
Mar 15, 1982 · Among the common negative characteristics exhibited by the former cult members studied, said Dr. Clark, are depression, guilt, fear, paranoia, slow speech, rigidity of facial expression and...
