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Duke and screenwriters Henry Bean and Michael Tolkin have made only minimal concessions to Hollywood. They tell a story of drug life without glorifications. A dealer's life is short and sweet; the existence is one in which killing a man is "liberating...
Despite such evidence, the case against Bean-Bayog is by no means airtight. In testimony before the state board, the psychiatrist denied ever having sex with Lozano and maintained that he was far more disturbed than his family is letting on. She described him as "chronically suicidal," the victim of "horrendous childhood abuse," a drug user, and a liar subject to delusions of sexual abuse involving both her and another female psychiatrist. Though a social worker who had worked with Lozano challenges this depiction, other therapists familiar with the case support Bean-Bayog's account...
...statement dictated by Lozano referring to his relationship with a girlfriend. She admits the sexual fantasies are her own dreams but says they were never meant to be shown to Lozano: he broke into her office and stole them, she contends. Far from cutting his life short, Bean-Bayog says she helped sustain him for four years. She believes his death was accidental...
When therapists feel themselves drawn into an emotional or sexual relationship with a patient, they are supposed to consult colleagues for guidance. Bean-Bayog seems to have done just this. Last week a clinical social worker in Boston said that Bean-Bayog had discussed her sexual attraction toward a Mexican-American patient in a teaching session. Bean-Bayog also repeatedly sought advice on the Lozano case from senior psychiatrists. Said one of her colleagues: "She had consultations at every stage of the game." He points out that a therapist who is abusing a patient is unlikely to be so open...
Last week the Massachusetts licensing board criticized Bean-Bayog for "departing from accepted standards of medical practice" in her treatment of Lozano, but it came to no conclusion about the charge of sexual misconduct. Pending further hearings, the board decided to allow the doctor to continue to see patients under the supervision of another psychiatrist. The plight of this respected therapist caught up in one of the great hazards of her profession has stirred sympathy within the Boston psychiatric community. "There is a strong tension within us that we should be able to heal, comfort and cure terribly troubled people...