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- LETTERS, Page 10Uncalled-for Comments
-
- In her talk with TIME (INTERVIEW, Aug. 21), advice
- columnist Ann Landers indicated that she is more inclined to
- refer her readers to mental-health professionals other than
- psychiatrists, since approximately 10% of the latter have
- admitted to having had sex with their patients. The actual
- figure is closer to 7%. More to the point, recent surveys
- indicate that the prevalence of therapist-patient sex is about
- the same for all groups of mental- health professionals,
- including psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. There
- is no justification for singling out one discipline as more
- culpable.
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- Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Director C.F. Menninger Memorial
- Hospital Topeka
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- My negative remarks about psychiatrists were uncalled for.
- I know there are many dedicated, caring psychiatrists, and to
- have made such a sweeping generalization was absurd. I should
- have taken my own advice: Measure twice; saw once.
-
- Ann Landers Chicago
-