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June, 1969

Religion and Emotional PlagueEcclesiogenic neurosis--a form of mental disturbance caused by certain kinds of religious upbringing--is so widespread in our society that two of its principal forms, frigidity and impotence, can be called "emotional plagues," according to psychiatrist William S. Kroger. Writing in The Journal of Sex Research, Dr. Kroger reports that in one study of 186 neurotic clergymen, 90 percent of them were found to be suffering from the ecclesiogenic neurosis, wherea...

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