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...Mack, a psychiatrist, leaped onto the daytime TV scene and into the pages of Newsweek, the Boston Globe and Time after he authored a book entitled "Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens," which claims that UFOs really do exist and kidnap humans...
Mack himself comes from a skeptical, agnostic family background, he says. A child psychiatrist, he attended Oberlin College and Harvard Medical School and was trained in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute...
...with Isabella, Holly began having flashbacks of her father abusing her. Eventually she claimed to have remembered a dozen incidents of abuse and rape between the ages of five and eight. Later Holly asked to be treated with sodium amytal, which she hoped would elicit the truth. Isabella enlisted psychiatrist Dr. Richard Rose to help administer the drug. Rose wrote in his notes that the sodium amytal helped Holly "remember specific details of sexual molestation...
Ramona's attorney, Richard Harrington, called on expert witnesses to discredit Isabella's and Rose's therapeutic techniques. Harvard bulimia expert Harrison Pope presented a paper stating that there is "no relationship" between childhood sexual abuse and the development of bulimia. Martin Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who pioneered research of hypnosis and sodium amytal, wrote in a court brief that the drug is "not useful in ascertaining 'truth' . . . The patient becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers." Dr. Lenore Terr, a prominent defender of recovered memories...
Readers who believe in otherworldly encounters were quick to support Harvard psychiatrist John Mack's research into people's remarkable experiences with UFOs (BEHAVIOR, April 25). Among those who wrote was David Kostecke of Henrietta, New York. He recounted a 1989 experience with an intelligent non- human, noting, "Since my extraterrestrial contact, my body temperature has remained below normal -- near 97 degrees." Dave Aaron, director of the UFO Audio-Video Clearing House in Yucaipa, California, objected to criticism of the psychiatrist's scientific methods. "If John Mack's UFO abduction research is 'shoddy' can you please tell me what...