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John Mack is more than a Harvard professor; he is a respected author (his book on T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977), a psychiatrist who helped found the clinical psychiatry department at Cambridge Hospital and a noted scientific advocate of environmental and antiwar causes. Under Mack's hypnotic guidance, the young man "remembered" being abducted repeatedly by aliens, taken to a spaceship and having a probe inserted in his anus. He also recalled past lives, including one as a young Indian warrior called Panther-by-the-Creek, who died in battle. Even more...
...what of the surprising consistency of the stories Mack elicited? "Dr. Mack is ignoring the high level of suggestion and imagery that surrounds the way in which he deals with these people," says Fred Frankel, 70, a Harvard Medical School professor and psychiatrist in chief at Boston's Beth Israel hospital. "Hypnosis helps you regain memories that you would not have otherwise recalled . . . But some will be true, and some will be false. The expectation of the hypnotist and the expectation of the person who is going to be hypnotized can influence the result...
...story of Paul Lozano and Margaret Bean-Bayog is a remarkable one, so it remarkable literary event. Two books have just been published that both purport to tell the story of what happened between this and his distinguished psychiatrist. Both books are written by journalists associated with the Boston Globe--Eileen McNamara, who writes for the Globe's Sunday Magazine, and Gary Chafetz, a freelance investigative reporter who covered the story for the Globe when it first broke (Chafetz, as a co-author) although the preface indicates that his role was mainly one of consultant and adviser...
...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...
Miller scored some points by reinforcing North's image as a shredder of documents and deceiver of Congress during the Iran-contra fiasco. But when a reporter asked Miller about his own mental health, he acknowledged a family history of mood disorders. His aides later said Miller consulted a psychiatrist after his father died. North was soon chortling that his opponent's "strategy of character assassination has backfired...