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Bishops: Think Twice Before Taking Psychiatric Advice!

DUPED BY THE CULTURE OF PSYCHOBABBLE

By Cal Samra | November 2010
Cal Samra is a former Associated Press and newspaper reporter who served for five years as the lay executive director and newsletter editor of a psychiatric-research foundation that later became the Huxley Institute for Bio-Social Research, named after the biologist-geneticist Sir Julian Huxley and his brother, the novelist Aldous Huxley. For the past twenty-five years, Mr. Sam­ra has been the editor and publisher of The Joyful Noiseletter, an award-winning Christian humor newsletter (PO Box 895, Portage MI 49081-0895; www.JoyfulNoiseletter.com).

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