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It was the case that shook the entire psychiatric community - and the nation. In 1992, a Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog, was accused by Harvard medical student Paul Lozano's family of seducing him and driving him to suicide, the first time a woman doctor had ever allegedly committed such a crime. As evidence, the family produced love letters from the doctor to her patient and, far more damning, fifty-five pages describing the most graphic sexual fantasies, in Bean-Bayog's own hand.
The evidence against Dr. Bean-Bayog seemed overwhelming, but Gary Chafetz, one of the reporters who covered the case for the Boston Globe, and his father, Dr. Morris Chafetz, himself a renowned psychiatrist, discovered that the incriminating material, as well as the legal documents marshalled in the case, contained inconsistencies, distortions, troubling errors of fact.
Disturbed by the role he and other reporters had been made to play by the demands of "instant news," Gary Chafetz managed to obtain exclusive and extensive interviews with Dr. Bean-Bayog, and was able to discover a far more complex truth than he had originally surmised
- The Chafetzes' hunt for the facts is not only a fascinating detective story, but an indictment of the way news is made in America. Most of all, however, it is the human story of a doctor cunningly manipulated by her patient, whose career, but not her soul, was destroyed.
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Obsession: the bizarre relationship between a prominent Harvard psychiatrist and her suicidal patient
1994, Crown Publishers
in English
- 1st ed.
0517595583 9780517595589
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