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Lozano's family, which is suing the psychiatrist for malpractice and "wrongful death," offers some extraordinary evidence. Among the items they retrieved from his Boston apartment were children's books such as Goodnight, Moon, inscribed in Bean-Bayog's hand to "the baby"; tapes in which the therapist instructs Lozano to repeat 10 times, "I'm your Mom, and I love you, and you love me very, very much"; flash cards made by the psychiatrist, one of which refers to missing "the phenomenal sex"; photographs taken by Lozano that show Bean-Bayog snuggling a stuffed bear; and a series...
Despite such evidence, the case against Bean-Bayog is by no means airtight. In testimony before the state board, the psychiatrist denied ever having sex with Lozano and maintained that he was far more disturbed than his family is letting on. She described him as "chronically suicidal," the victim of "horrendous childhood abuse," a drug user, and a liar subject to delusions of sexual abuse involving both her and another female psychiatrist. Though a social worker who had worked with Lozano challenges this depiction, other therapists familiar with the case support Bean-Bayog's account...
...psychiatrist concedes that her treatment of Lozano was "somewhat unconventional" but says she turned to it only after routine therapy failed and after Lozano suggested that he found the notion of a loving, nonabusive mother comforting. Role-playing mother and son, she says, was a useful method of calming his behavior and helping him confront traumatic childhood memories. As for the flash card mentioning "phenomenal sex," the psychiatrist says it was a statement dictated by Lozano referring to his relationship with a girlfriend. She admits the sexual fantasies are her own dreams but says they were never meant...
...feelings can be stirred in sessions every bit as much as are those of patients. Sometimes those emotions shift onto the client, a process called countertransference. When a woman counselor takes up with a male patient, the impulse is often a "fantasy that love will cure the patient," says psychiatrist Glen Gabbard of the Menninger Clinic, who points to the romance between the therapist played by Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte's character in The Prince of Tides. "The movie would have you believe that what was helpful to him was her love for him, not her professional expertise...
...board criticized Bean-Bayog for "departing from accepted standards of medical practice" in her treatment of Lozano, but it came to no conclusion about the charge of sexual misconduct. Pending further hearings, the board decided to allow the doctor to continue to see patients under the supervision of another psychiatrist. The plight of this respected therapist caught up in one of the great hazards of her profession has stirred sympathy within the Boston psychiatric community. "There is a strong tension within us that we should be able to heal, comfort and cure terribly troubled people -- particularly gifted, young people," says...