The Leadership Council

The Leadership Council is a Philadelphia based "non-profit" organisation of medics and academics of child abuse/trauma, who use pseudo-scientific "research" and advocacy, in an attempt legitimise the vague, esoteric and unfounded psychiatric trauma theories that doubtless provide a basis for their and their allies' "expertise" and paid work. It can be seen as a pressure group for further medicalisation of human behaviour, and the east coast economy, paying little attention to the negative consequences of its advocacy work.

The council is notable for publishing Stephanie Dallam's poorly researched critique of Rind et al.

The current president is Paul J. Fink - a former president of the APA. The official HQ of the council corresponds to the address of Fink's apartment, in a suburb of Philadelphia, within roughly equal walking distance of his place of work and Temple University - where Bruce Rind was working when he published his famous study.

Rebuttals of LC disinformation

• The Validity and Appropriateness of Methods, Analyses, and Conclusions in Rind et al. (1998)
• A Response to Ross Cheit's "The Legend of Robert Halsey"