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Facing great adversity, Mexican-American lesbians have been the vanguard of feminism and progressivism, author and lecturer Carla Trujillo told a group of about 25 students in Emerson Hall last night...
Trujillo said Mexican-American lesbians are often forced into "passivity and repression" by social and traditional family values...
...Mexican immigrant family, Paul Lozano was a star. A brilliant and shy student from El Paso, he had gained entry to one of the nation's most elite institutions: Harvard Medical School. His future seemed assured. But during his third year of studies, Lozano became homesick and depressed. He got a list of Harvard-recommended therapists and called the first name on the alphabetical roster: psychiatrist Margaret Bean-Bayog. A clinical assistant professor at the medical school, she had a reputation as a gifted lecturer and dedicated researcher into substance abuse...
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...
Lozano, the son of Mexican immigrants, was depressed because he felt out of place at the Medical School. He was worried about not being up to the challenge of becoming a doctor, according to his family and some doctors...