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...summary: according to McNamara's book, breakdown, Lozano entered Harvard Medical School in 1984 and soon entered therapy with Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog, a psychiatrist and teacher at the school. She pursued a strange course of regression theraphy, making Lozano believe that she was his mother and implanting false memories of childhood abuse. It is almost certain that she had an affair with him or at least masturbated in his presence, but she abandoned him when she successfully adopted a child, leaving him helpless and depressed. He killed himself nine months later...
According to Chafetz's book, obsession, Bean-Bayog's therapy was innovative and difficult to understand , but not irresponsible or beyond the psychiatric pale. The sexual fantasies that Bean-Bayog wrote (and which Lozano Subsequently stole from her office) were a case of countertransference, in which a therapist attempts to deal with her emotional and psychological reactions to her patient. Lozano was psychotic suicidal, pathological liar whose inevitable suicide was delayed by Bean-Bayog's therapy...
Geoffrey stokes, who reviewed these books for the Globe, admitted this: "Though I am somewhat more sympathetic toward Bean-Bayog as a result of these books, I'm not that much more certain about what 'really' happened during Lozano's therapy and life than I was when his vexed case was playing itself out on the front pages." I find myself in exactly the same situation, as if I am watching one of those optical illusions that consists of a vase, depending on the Organizational whimsy of one's brain. Stokes continues: "But I am sure of this...
...pictures of the story. Why does he resort to accusing one of the authors of bias, even as he is unconvinced by the other author's argument? After all, the Chafetz book is not without its own likely bias; in his preface, Morris Chafetz notes that he was (like Bean-Bayog) a member of the Harvard Medical School department of psychiatry and (like Bean-Bayog) a specialist on alcohol abuse and alcoholism...
...pursued in good faith, that he was honestly searching for the truth of the matter. He is forthright about his sympathy for psychiatry, and he liberally admits uncertainty and ignorance when uncertainty and ignorance are warranted. McNamara, on the other hand, is far too certain. She never spoke to Bean-Beyog (whereas Chafetz did) and almost never admits the possibility of her innocence...