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David Clark
Thought Reform
Consultant
cultspecs2@comcast.net, cultspecs@aol.comP.O. Box 350, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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David
Clark,
Thought Reform Consultant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Clark has
been active in this field for more than 20 years and is the chair of
AFF’s Video Education Committee. Mr. Clark is on the Board of the Leo
J. Ryan Education Foundation and reFOCUS. He was a contributing author
for the Practical Guidelines for Exit Counseling chapter in the W.W.
Norton book, Recovery from Cults. In 1985 (David Clark) he received the
Hall of Fame Award from the "original" Cult Awareness Network He was a
founding member of the "original" Focus and reFOCUS, a national support
network for former cult members He has been a national and
international conference speaker on the topic of cults and has been
interviewed by newspapers, radio and TV stations on the topic of mind
control and cults for over two decades. David Clark was the
2004 American plenary speaker at Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the
Ukraine for the F.P.P.S. International Scientific-Practical Conference
with the presentation title of "Thought Reform Consultation, Youth Cult
Education Preparation and Sect Family Intervention Work".
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- An Exit Counselor's Perspective
- Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 10,
No. 2
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- Special
Collection
Recovery From Cults: A Pastoral/Psychological Dialogue-Personal Accounts of Former
Group Members
Bible-Cult Mind Control
- Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.15., No. 2
1999 Conference: Cults,
Psychological Manipulation & Society, Minneapolis, MN, May 14-19, 1999AFF Annual Conference: Jonestown Memorial, November 13-15,
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