John Gordon Clark
John 'Jack' Gordon Clark (1926–1999) was a Harvard psychiatrist known for his research on the alleged damaging effects of cults.
He was the target of harassment from the Church of Scientology after he testified against it to the Vermont legislature in 1976.
In 1985, Clark received the Leo J. Ryan Award, named for the California congressman murdered in Jonestown. The Psychiatric Times, when naming him 1991 psychiatrist of the year, described him as "a quiet, courageous man of conviction, who was fighting an all-too-lonely and unappreciated battle against well-financed, ruthless organizations."
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“Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion—keep you from eating, which I liked to do.”
—Septima Clark (1898–1987)