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Perversion of Power

Clinical psychologist Frawley-O’Dea offers a detailed look at the church sex-abuse scandal.

By From a 1983 case in the Louisiana bayou to the Boston Archdiocese’s headline-fueled implosion in 2002, clinical psychologist Frawley-O’Dea offers a detailed look at the church sex-abuse scandal. Though heavily academic in tone, the book puts the Catholic Church on the couch, plumbing its psyche for things like sadomasochism and Irish cultural shame, in a way that many laypersons may find darkly fascinating. —J. L. Johnson
Originally published in Boston magazine, March 2007
 

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