Edward Lottick

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name = Edward Lottick
birth_date = 1934
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residence = United States
citizenship = American
nationality = United States
field = family medicine, cultic studies
work_institution = Professor at King's College on American Cults
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known_for = Invented Electrosurgical hemostat
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prizes = John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies
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Edward Lottick (born 1934) is a family physician and inventor.

His son was Scientologist Noah Lottick. Noah Lottick's suicide was featured as part of the "Time Magazine" article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", by Richard Behar. After his son's death, Lottick was inspired to further research cults.

Lottick, along with Paul R. Martin in the same year, is the winner of the 1993 John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies.

Lottick is on the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and is Editor of the "Luzerne County Medical Society Bulletin" [ [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_profile/lottick_edward.htm Edward Lottick] , profile, International Cultic Studies Association] . He was on the Board of Directors of the previous version of the International Cultic Studies Association, the American Family Foundation. Lottick is the inventor of the electrosurgical hemostat [ [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5116332.html Electrocautery hemostat] , Edward Lottick, May 26, 1992, Application Number 477094.] .

on's death

On May 11, 1990, Lottick's son Noah Antrim Lottick committed suicide. Lottick described this as his motivation for researching cults in his article describing a survey of physicians that he presented to the Pennsylvania State Medical Society [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/lottick_edward_physician_experience.htm Survey Reveals Physicians' Experience with Cults] , Edward Lottick, "Cult Observer", Volume 10, Number 3, 1993.] . However, these events were initially described in the "Time Magazine" article: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power] , "Time Magazine", May 6, 1991, see article: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power] , and later in "Reader's Digest" [October 1991, "Readers Digest", [http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/dancult.htm "A Dangerous Cult Goes Mainstream"] .] .

Noah Lottick was a Russian studies student, who "jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine". When found by police, he was holding $171 dollar in cash. The Lottick family found their son's body, lying in a morgue, a month after his death [ [http://www.raids.org/gen00286.htm Scientologist Commits Suicide, Scientology Convicted] , St. Petersburg Times, published February 8, 1998] . Initially, his father had thought that Scientology was similar to Dale Carnegie's techniques. However, after his ordeal, Lottick now believes that the organization is a "school for psychopaths".

After the article describing these incidents had been published in "Time", he and Mrs. Lottick submitted affidavits [http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/cyberlaw/scientology1.html Church of Scientology v. Time and Richard Behar] , 92 Civ. 3024 (PKL), Opinion and Order, Court TV library Web site., retrieved 1/10/06.] , when the Church of Scientology sued Richard Behar and "Time Magazine" for $416 million. All counts against Behar and "Time" were later dismissed in courts of law [ [http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/Scien17.html Judge Dismisses Church of Scientology's $416 Million Lawsuit Against Time Magazine] , Business Wire, July 16, 1996] . In their court statements, the Lotticks "affirmed the accuracy of each statement in the article", and stated that Lottick "concluded that Scientology therapies were manipulations, and that no Scientology staff members attended the funeral" (of their son).

Cult research

In October 1991, Lottick introduced a resolution to the Pennsylvania Medical Society's House of Delegates. The resolution requested that a survey be performed to assess physician's current level of awareness regarding destructive cults. Arthur A. Dole and Michael D. Langone were consulted in the process of tabulating and analyzing the survey. The final results were published in the "Cult Observer" in 1993 . For purposes of their survey, a destructive cult was defined as "a group which violates the rights of its members, harms them through abusive techniques of mind control, and distinguishes itself from a normal social or religious group by subjecting its members to physical, mental, or financial deprivation or deception to keep them in the group." For his work and research, Lottick was awarded the 1993 John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies [http://www.csj.org/aff/aff_awardclark.htm Edward Lottick, M.D.] , award recipient, AFF website.] .

In 2005, Lottick presented empirical research into the prevalence of cults in the United States, at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid [ [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Noah_Antrim_Lottick_24/Study.html Prevalence of Cults: A Review of Empirical Research in the U. S. A.] , Edward Lottick, International Cultic Studies Association, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, July 14, 2005] .

In 2006, Lottick gave a presentation for the International Cultic Studies Association conference in Denver, Colorado, entitled "Rajneesh and Bioterrorism" [ [http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/bulletin-board.html 2006 Conference] , International Cultic Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, June 2006.] .

Awards and honors

*John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies, 1993 [ [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/lottick_edward_physician_experience.htm Survey Reveals Physicians' Experience with Cults] , Edward Lottick, M.D., "Cult Observer", Volume 10, Number 3, 1993.] , with Paul R. Martin, Ph.D. [ [http://www.rickross.com/reference/ashram/ashram22.html Enlightenment: Ma's ashram: A Press Journal special report] , TCPalm.com, May 5, 2004, Jayne Hustead.
In May 1993, Martin received the American Family Foundation's John G. Clark award for distinguished scholarship in cult studies.]

Inventions/Patents held

*Electrosurgical hemostat, 1992, Application Number 477094

Publications

Articles

* [http://www.torch.org/Spring-2006.pdf The Forgotten Freedom: Persistent Constraint Into the Twenty-first Century] , "Torch Magazine", Spring 2006
* [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Noah_Antrim_Lottick_24/Study.html Prevalence of Cults: A Review of Empirical Research in the U. S. A.] , Edward Lottick, International Cultic Studies Association, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, July 14, 2005
* [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/lottick_edward_physician_experience.htm Survey Reveals Physicians' Experience with Cults] , Edward Lottick, "Cult Observer", Volume 10, Number 3, 1993.
*"Congresspersons: An Endangered Species", Vol.11, No. 3, 1994, "Cultic Studies Observer"

Presentations

*"Preventing Family Violence: Becoming Part of the Solution", "Psychological Manipulation: The Abuse of Women Conference", May 30 and May 31, 1997 - Philadelphia
*"Children and Cults", American Family Foundation Annual Conference: May 29 - May 31, 1998 – Philadelphia, PA

References

ee also

*The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
*List of doctors
*List of cult and new religious movement researchers
*Richard Behar

External links

* [http://www.csj.org/infoserv_profile/lottick_edward.htm Edward Lottick] , profile at International Cultic Studies Association
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=lottick&GSfn=noah&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=16333850& Find a Grave] , Memorial for Noah Lottick on Find a Grave
* [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Noah_Antrim_Lottick_24/index.html Noah Antrim Lottick] , Memorial for Noah Lottick
* [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22edward+lottick%22&hl=en&lr= Scholarly articles by Edward Lottick] , at Google Scholar;Media/Press mention
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power] , "Time Magazine", May 6, 1991, article featuring the Lottick family tragedy
* [http://www.raids.org/gen00286.htm Scientologist Commits Suicide, Scientology Convicted] , St. Petersburg Times, published February 8, 1998
* [http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/dancult.htm "A Dangerous Cult Goes Mainstream"] , "Readers Digest", Richard Behar.