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Sun Apr 17, 2016, 04:42 PM Apr 2016

Beware psychiatric dangers of religious indocrination [View all]

Psychologist Marlene Winell has done groundbreaking clinical studies of the psychiatric dangers of indoctrination and fundamental religion. See her case histories on her website. Makes you wonder why this isn't a bonafide psychiatic disorder (does the Amer Psychiat Assoc have a phobia about confronting organized religion?)

journeyfree.org/rts/
Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS)

by Marlene Winell

For more detail, see the 3-part series published in “Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Today” and here:
Part 1: RTS: It’s Time to Recognize it
Part 2: Understanding RTS: The Trauma From Religion
Part 3: Understanding RTS: The Trauma of Leaving Religion

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