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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.
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Director
C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital
Topeka
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