Perversion of Power Clinical Psychologist Frawley-O'dea Offers a Detailed Look at the Church Sex-Abuse Scandal, Boston Magazine [United States], DATA

Perversion of Power
Clinical Psychologist Frawley-O'dea Offers a Detailed Look at the Church Sex-Abuse Scandal

Boston Magazine [United States]
March 8, 2007

http://bostonmagazine.com/arts_entertainment/articles/city_journal_perversion_of_power

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