Though the suits were eventually dismissed, Dr. Clark in 1985 filed suit in US District Court against L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the church, alleging a conspiracy to ''destroy'' him through a series of threats, harassment, and false and malicious accusations seeking revocation of his medical license and hospital privileges. That suit was settled out of court. That same year, Dr. Clark received the Leo J. Ryan award, named for the California congressman murdered in Jonestown, Guyana, and, in 1991 The Psychiatric Times named him psychiatrist of the year. He wrote that ''early on, Dr. Clark concluded that the cult issue was at heart a question of human rights. Minn. After serving in the Navy, he graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, and then Harvard Medical School.
Funeral arrangements are private.
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