released 8/11/2023
In a 1992 article in The American Scholar, Dr. Paul McHugh — then a prominent psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins — warned of the dangers of his discipline submitting to cultural captivity. The three instances of this submission to fashion that he focused on were the dramatic de-institionalization of patients with severe and chronic mental disorders, the prescribing of sex reassignment surgeries, and the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder linked to the alleged recovery of childhood memories of abuse. Ken Myers interviewed McHugh shortly after the article’s publication and an unedited version of that interview is presented in this Feature.
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