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- ↑ Donald J. Meyer (2002). "Larry Hollingsworth Strasburger, MD: Twenty-Seventh President of The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law" (PDF). Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. pp. 3–5.