Word: lozanos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what followed for Lozano, his grieving family claims, was a death spiral into infantilism and madness. On April 2, 1991, just a few months before he was to receive his M.D., Lozano, 28, injected himself with a lethal dose of cocaine. Last week Dr. Bean-Bayog, 48, found herself before the Massachusetts medical licensing board refuting charges by Lozano's family that she had driven him to suicide by seducing him into a lurid affair, brainwashing him into thinking that she was his loving "Mom" and he her baby boy, and then dumping him when he could no longer...
...Lozano's family, which is suing the psychiatrist for malpractice and "wrongful death," offers some extraordinary evidence. Among the items they retrieved from his Boston apartment were children's books such as Goodnight, Moon, inscribed in Bean-Bayog's hand to "the baby"; tapes in which the therapist instructs Lozano to repeat 10 times, "I'm your Mom, and I love you, and you love me very, very much"; flash cards made by the psychiatrist, one of which refers to missing "the phenomenal sex"; photographs taken by Lozano that show Bean-Bayog snuggling a stuffed bear; and a series...
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...
...psychiatrist concedes that her treatment of Lozano was "somewhat unconventional" but says she turned to it only after routine therapy failed and after Lozano suggested that he found the notion of a loving, nonabusive mother comforting. Role-playing mother and son, she says, was a useful method of calming his behavior and helping him confront traumatic childhood memories. As for the flash card mentioning "phenomenal sex," the psychiatrist says it was a 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...
Wherever the truth may rest, the Lozano case illustrates the tangle of emotions and desires that wind through many doctor-patient relationships. Surveys indicate that between 7% and 13% of healers within an array of specialties -- including psychologists, gynecologists, surgeons and family practitioners -- have had some erotic contact with their patients. Public outrage over such cases has led eight states to pass legislation in recent years making sexual abuse of patients a crime...