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- Birth nameRaymond Harold Prince
- Raymond H. Prince was born on September 27, 1925 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Were Ni: He Is a Madman (1963) and To Tell the Truth (1956). He was married to Grace (20 years) and Denise (short lived). He died on May 12, 2012 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada.
- SpousesGrace (20 years) (divorced, 7 children)Denise (short lived) (divorced, 3 children)
- "To Tell The Truth" Occupation: Expert on witch doctor psychiatry.
- In 1958, he was given a rare opportunity. Secretly, because sorcery was illegal, he met with the head witch in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The crone offered him soup, purportedly containing human flesh, to guarantee three things in life: professional success, fecundity and health.
- Studied psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario.
- Was in Nigeria, for two years studying how the Yoruba people treat mental illness. This project was funded by an organization proved later to have been a front for the Central Intelligence Agency, which was interested in mind control at the time.
- Was research director of the Montreal Mental Hygiene Institute at McGill University, and became Professor of Psychiatry at McGill in 1979, and Professor Emeritus in 1991. He was the director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry 1981-91, and editor of Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, now Transcultural Psychiatry.
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