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...myself as a psychiatrist and a physician and tried to analyze those aspects of the situation," Stone said...
...penis envy made us look dumb, this will make us look totally gullible," says psychiatrist Paul McHugh, chairman of the psychiatry department at Johns Hopkins University. "This is the biggest story in psychiatry in a decade. It is a disaster for orthodox psychotherapists who are doing good work...
...Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who won a Pulitzer in 1977 for his psychological study of Lawrence of Arabia, takes the stories literally. "I encountered something here very early on, which I saw did not fit anything I had ever come across in 40 years of psychiatry." He has treated more than 70 abductees, whom he calls "experiencers...
Recovered-memory therapists might do well to heed those guidelines before they cause irreparable damage to their profession. For, as the public begins to recognize that people have been falsely accused by recovered-memory patients, says psychiatrist McHugh, it "opens us up to skepticism and dismay about our capacity to do things. This is a bubble that is going to burst. We will end up having to re-create the trust this country puts in psychotherapy...
...Cornell researchers investigated 144 New York City suicides by techniques suggested in Final Exit. At least 15 of the victims had consulted the book, and six of those had no physical problems at the time. Psychiatrist Peter Marzuk, who led the study, speculates that some of the suicides might have called for help or otherwise survived if they had used a slower method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right...