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In Reply to: Re: Zerby's Brain Pathology posted by Doc Reallynow on September 16, 2005 at 15:39:17:
Doc, if you haven't already, you might want to read Stephen Kent's "Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Founder, David Berg." Cultic Studies Journal 11 No.2(1994): 135-188.
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/lustfulprophet.htm
That article provides an excellent example of a remote diagnosis, if I can put it that way. Although Kent never interviewed Berg, he had thousands of pages of personal history in Berg's own words from which to draw his conclusions about Berg. I think that Diagnostician is simply trying to do something similar, i.e., come to some conclusions about Zerby based on TF's publications and other sources.
Kent's article greatly helped me understand certain things that I was blind to, and I see no harm in someone attempting something similar with Zerby, even in an informal way here in this forum.
