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...libel cases have dragged on longer or sullied both sides more than the suit by Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, who pilloried him in a 1983 profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living...
Even if Masson prevails, enough of what Malcolm said about him has been validated to brand him forever as a reckless egomaniac, philanderer and self- promoter who dared to impugn the integrity of Freud, the demigod of his former field. If Malcolm wins, it will be despite her readiness to alter facts in service of her vision of truth. She admitted cleaning up and clarifying Masson's prose, which is common journalistic practice. She also combined remarks made months apart, in different circumstances and on different coasts, into a single monologue -- which is not common practice at all. She felt...
Masson's troubles began well before Malcolm's scathing portrait. After a meteoric rise in psychoanalytic circles, he was sacked from his heir apparency at the Freud Archives in 1981 for disparaging the private behavior of the founder of psychoanalysis and for attempting to debunk some of the master's key thinking on the prevalence and significance of child abuse -- an act of iconoclasm that Malcolm aptly termed self-destructive. Masson sued the Archives for $13 million and accepted a settlement of $150,000. Then he made another decision that in retrospect seems even more self-destructive: he agreed...
Undergraduate Council representative Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, who was pushing for the project with David F. Carlock '94, said he was surprised and upset to find out the idea had been cancelled...
...Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, the former Undergraduate Council chair who drafted the council's proposal, said he was glad to see the "culmination of a two-year process...