This morning I read a news item about Andrea Yates' husband testifying about the apparently inadequate psychiatric treatment she received at Memorial Spring Shadows Glen Hospital. I thought the name sounded familiar. It was. This was the hospital involved in the spectacular Lynn Carl recovered memories case.
----------------------------------------------------- >From the APA Monitor, February, 1998: http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb98/jud.html ...What was to have been a two-week evaluation turned into 22 months of inpatient treatment costing an estimated $1.1 million. During treatment on the hospital dissociative disorders unit, Carl became convinced that she had 500 different personalities; had been raised in a multigenerational, homicidal, cannibalistic and satanic cult; had abused her children; and had tried to poison her husband. As a result of Carl' purportedly recovered memories, she and her husband divorced, and her children, then 13 and 14, were also admitted to Spring Shadows Glen Hospital. While hospitalized, the children also came to believe that they had been involved in the same cult. Carl's 14-year-old son reportedly recalled being programmed by cult members to die at the age of 16. Her daughter supposedly believed that she had been used as a breeder for the cult. Both children also came to believe that they had been victims of incest. Carl sued the hospital and a number of mental health professionals involved in her treatment, claiming that the therapy she received had implanted false memories. While other defendants settled out of court, the psychiatrist who treated Carl went to trial denying any wrongdoing and alleging that Carl was suffering from multiple personality disorder, had been abused and had abused her children... -------------------------------------------------------------------- (Back to me) Carl was awarded $5.9 million in damages for that one. With the hospital allowing therapy like that, it it any wonder that the treatment Yates received seems questionable? It's also interesting that beliefs about the devil are prominent in both cases. -Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
