------------------------------------------------------------------- F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, Incorporated) a non-profit computer bulletin board and electronic library 601 16th St. #C-217 Golden, Colorado 80401 USA BBS 303 530-1942 FAX 303 530-2950 Office 303 473-0111 This document is part of an electronic lending library and preservational electronic archive. F.A.C.T.Net does not sell documents, it only lends them according to the terms of your library cardholder agreement with F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ John G. Clark Awards. Cult Observer Report October 1, 1990. The first John G. Clark Awards for "distinguished contributions to cultic studies" were awarded in early September to a West Coast psychiatrist, John Hochman, M.D., and Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel, Ph. D., a Philadelphia psychologist. The awards were made during the annual meeting, in Stony Point, NY, of helping professionals and academics associated with the America Family Foundation's professional committees and study groups. [The American Family Foundation publishes the Cult Observer.] The Clark award is named for the America Family Foundation's founding scholar, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a physician in private practice who was one of the first clinicians to draw attention to the psychological damage caused by destructive cults. His 1979 article, "Cults," in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was widely circulated and helped greatly to convince colleagues that cultism regularly created clinical problems for individuals and families. He worked tirelessly with affected individuals and relatives while speaking in public forums throughout this country and Europe both to publicize the problem and to help organize concerted clinical and educational programs to combat it. Dr. Clark and his family also suffered greatly from personal attacks by cult groups seeking to discredit and silence him. In 1984 he received the Cult Awareness Network's Leo J. Ryan Award. Dr. Hochman's recent "Miracle, Mystery, and Authority: The Triangle of Cult Indoctrination," (Psychiatric Annals, April 1990), is the culmination of his thoughts on the nature of cultic group processes, but only his most recent contribution to the field. As an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and a member of the board of the Commission on Cults and Missionaries of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, he has been deeply involved in educating colleagues and helping professionals about the cult problem and devising preventive public education programs and counseling guide- lines for those who have been affected by cults. Dr. Hochman is chairman of the American Family Foundation's Psychiatry/Medicine Committee and serves on the Editorial Board of the Cultic Studies Journal. Steve Dubrow-Eichel's "Deprogramming: An Investigation of Change Processes and Shifts in Attention and Verbal Interactions" (Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1989), was the first scholarly presentation and analysis of a personally observed deprogramming. The unique study began as a dissertation for the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania under Arthur Dole, an emeritus professor there, noted for his research in the area of cultism. Professor Dole presented the award to Dr. Dubrow-Eichel, who is in private clinical practice in Philadelphia with RITIRN, which specializes in problems related to cult involvement and the effects of unethical social influence. Dr. Dubrow-Eichel is a member of the American Family Foundation's Victim Assistance Committee. ================================================================= If this is a copyrighted work, you are acknowledging by receipt of this document from FACTNet that on the basis of reasonable investigation, you have not been to obtain a copy elsewhere at a fair price, and that you are and will abide by the following copyright warning. 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F.A.C.T.Net does not sell documents, it only lends them according to the terms of your library cardholder agreement with F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CARD CATALOG ENTRY DOS FILENAME OF TEXT FILE: CO0990AC.TXT DOS FILENAME OF IMAGE FILES: none ADMINISTRATIVE CODE: OK SECURITY CODE: SCO DISTRIBUTION CODE: RO DESCRIPTION FOR BBS FILE LISTING: The Cult Observer Sept/Oct 1990 SORT TO: AFF CONTRIBUTOR: American Family Foundation (AFF) LOCATION OF ORIGINAL: American Family Foundation (AFF) NOTES: Back issues and selected reprints of the Cultic Studies Journal are available from the American Family Foundation, P.O. Box 2265, Bonita Springs, FL 33959-2265. WHAT AFF COMMITTEE MEMBERS (AND OTHERS) ARE DOING: | 1 John G. Clark Awards, to John Hochman, | M.D. and Steve K. Dubrow-Eichel, Ph.D. For additional verification see the contributor of the document. 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