John Gordon Clark

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John Gordon Clark
Born	1926 United States
Died	1999 Massachusetts
Alma mater	Harvard Medical School, M.D. Macalester College, B.S.
Known for	research on cults
Awards	Psychiatrist of the Year, Psychiatric Times, 1991
Scientific career
Fields	psychiatry
Institutions	Harvard University

John 'Jack' Gordon Clark (1926–1999) was a Harvard psychiatrist known for his research on the alleged damaging effects of cults.^[1]^{[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.^[2]

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."

Works

Clark, John G. Cults. Journal of the American Medical Association. 242, 279–281. 1979
Clark, John G.: On the further study of destructive cultism. In Halperin (ed.), 363–368

References

^ Dr. John Clark, 73, Psychiatrist was authority on danger of cults, Tom Long, Globe Staff, 10/09/99, The Boston Globe
^ John Clark, 73, Psychiatrist Who Studied Sects, New York Times, October 18, 1999, Eric Nagourney, "The Church of Scientology objected strongly to Clark's assertions, and the church and Clark battled in court. Clark said the church had engaged in a campaign of harassment against him. In 1988, he settled with the church and received an undisclosed amount of money, but agreed never to discuss the group publicly again."

v t e Opposition to new religious movements
Concepts	Anti-cult movement Christian countercult movement Cult Deprogramming Doomsday cult Freedom of religion Heresy Heterodox teaching Mind control New religious movement
Secular groups	APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control Center for Religious Studies in the name of Hieromartyr Irenaeus of Lyons Cult Awareness Network Cult Information Centre Cultists Anonymous International Cultic Studies Association The Family Survival Trust Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales People's Organised Workshop on Ersatz Religion
Secular individuals	Jean-Marie Abgrall John Gordon Clark Steve Eichel Martin Faiers Leon Festinger Carol Giambalvo Steven Hassan Ian Haworth Galen Kelly Stephen A. Kent Masaki Kito Janja Lalich Michael Langone Saul V. Levine Casey McCann Jesse S. Miller Sayuri Ogawa Ted Patrick Tsutsumi Sakamoto Rick Ross Chris Shelton Margaret Singer Eito Suzuki Alain Vivien Cyril Vosper Louis Jolyon West Lawrence Wollersheim
Religious groups	Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Christian Research Institute Dialog Center International Dialogue Ireland Evangelical Ministries to New Religions Institute for Religious Research Personal Freedom Outreach Midwest Christian Outreach New England Institute of Religious Research Reachout Trust Spiritual Counterfeits Project Watchman Fellowship Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center
Religious individuals	Johannes Aagaard Graham Baldwin Robert M. Bowman Jr. Harold Busséll Gérard Dagon Maurice Davis Alexander Dvorkin Ronald Enroth Mike Garde Robin Garbose Norman Geisler Jan Groenveld Hank Hanegraaff Reinhart Hummel Roger Ikor Bob Larson Paul R. Martin Walter Ralston Martin Robert Passantino
Governmental organizations	610 Office European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism Centre contre les manipulations mentales Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu MIVILUDES Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France
Individuals in government	Nicolas About Serge Blisko Georges Fenech Ford Greene Stephen Mutch Catherine Picard Kenneth Robinson Paul Rose Tom Sackville Nick Xenophon
Historical events	About–Picard law Anti-Mormonism Assassination of Shinzo Abe Governmental lists of cults and sects Mass suicide of Heaven's Gate Jason Scott case Arrest of Apollo Quiboloy Persecution of Baháʼís Persecution of Falun Gong Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses The Prohibited and Unlawful Societies and Associations Act Tokyo subway sarin attack Waco siege
Publications	All Gods Children (book) Another Gospel Bounded Choice Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control Captive Hearts, Captive Minds The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions Churches That Abuse Combating Cult Mind Control Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion Cults in Our Midst Cults of Unreason Deadly Cults The Incendiaries The Kingdom of the Cults The Making of a Moonie Misunderstanding Cults The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left Recovery from Cults Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism Twisted Scriptures When Prophecy Fails The Wrong Way Home Zealot: A Book About Cults

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