The Effects of Religious Cults on the Health and Welfare of Their Converts

The Effects of Religious Cults on the Health and Welfare of Their Converts, was a statement with accompanying testimony read into the Congressional Record on November 3, 1977 by Congressman Leo J. Ryan. Ryan read testimony from John Gordon Clark, M.D., a Harvard psychiatrist, to the Vermont State legislature, into Congressional Record while on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. The statements were then published in the Congressional Record's November 4, 1977 - "Extensions of Remarks."

See also public domain transcribed text of same document, at WikiSource.

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  The Effects of Religious Cults on the Health and Welfare of Their Converts, 1977

External links

• The Effects of Religious Cults on the Health and Welfare of Their Converts, at Cultic Studies Journal
• Destructive cults in the Congressional Record, Leo J. Ryan Memorial page.