Paul McHugh

Information on Paul McHugh

Bishops Select Lay Board On Sexual Abuse Review By Laurie Goodstein 6/25/02  “Dr. McHugh, who was a founder and board member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.”  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEFD91038F936A15754C0A9649C8B63

Brown, D; Frischholz E, Scheflin A. (1999). “Iatrogenic dissociative identity disorder – an evaluation of the scientific evidence”. The Journal of Psychiatry and Law XXVII No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1999):549–637. p. 604 – 605 “The problem with McHugh’s publications on MPD/DID, like those of Mersky, is that they are mere speculation. From deposition testimony in several cases, McHugh has made it clear that other than an occasional consultation, he has very little actual clinical experience with the ongoing treatment of MPD/DID patients and is generally unfamiliar with both the clinical features of MPD/DID and with what usually occurs in their treatment. Thus McHugh’s opinion is informed neither by actual in-depth clinical experience with contemporary MPD/DID patients nor by any scientific research on MPD. Furthermore, with regard to McHugh’s main hypothesis that hysterical behavior is implicated in DID iatrogenesis, Gleaves has shown that such phenomena are no more prevalent in DID than in any other psychiatric condition.” (Gleaves, D. July 1996 The sociocognitive model of dissociative identity disorder: a reexamination of the evidence, Psychological Bulletin 120, 1  p.42-59 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8711016?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus) “ No reason exists to doubt the connection between DID and childhood trauma.” http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/basic-information-on-didmpd/

Morrison threatens to sue witness – Expert witness Paul McHugh, a psychiatrist, could face disciplinary action for revealing information in Wichita abortion records. By Dion Leflert 6/13/07 Wichita Eagle – Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison on Tuesday threatened to sue a psychiatric expert hired by his predecessor if he doesn’t stop making public statements about medical records from an investigation of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller. In a letter, Morrison told psychiatrist Paul McHugh that if he persists, the attorney general’s office will “pursue all available remedies.” That could include legal action to get a refund of $5,000 the state has paid McHugh and possible disciplinary action against him in his home state of Maryland. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31256521_ITM

Dubious choice for resolving church scandal by Mara J. Math 9/21/02 “McHugh’s actions…pose the deepest threat to the council’s credibility. McHugh is the only therapist on the lay council. This makes his participation especially significant, because other members may rely on his presumed expertise. Because he frequently testifies on behalf of accused molesters, doubts may be raised about the council’s desire to truly solve the problem. McHugh…is the man whose report to the court in one case stated that a defendant’s harassing phone calls were not obscene – including the call that detailed a fantasy of a 4-year-old sex slave locked in a dog cage and fed human waste. At least eight men have been convicted of sexually abusing Maryland children while under treatment at the “sex disorders” clinic McHugh runs at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – abuse the doctors did not report, citing client confidentiality. When Maryland law was changed to require that doctors report child molestation, the clinic fought it and advised patients on how to get around the law. The memo to patients suggested that molesters report their pedophilic activities to their lawyers, who could in turn tell staff; attorney-client privilege would then protect the molesters from being reported. This memo was fully approved by the boss – Dr. Paul McHugh…” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/20/ED175849.DTL

Paul McHugh on transsexualism – From an article by Elizabeth Gilbert: McHugh has always reserved special scorn for the practice of sex-change surgery on adult transsexuals. Classifying transsexualism as merely one symptom in a larger complex of personality disorders, McHugh had long believed that psychiatrists should treat such patients with the talking cure, not radical, irreversible surgeries. In a 1992 article in the American Scholar, McHugh lambasted transsexual surgery as ‘the most radical therapy ever encouraged by twentieth century psychiatrists’ and likened its popularity to the once widespread practice of frontal lobotomy.  http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/paul-mchugh.html

• Memory & FMS

• D.I.D. – M.P.D.
  • Evidence that Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD) is caused by Childhood Trauma
  • Sybil – Proof Sybil had MPD and it was caused by severe trauma
  • Basic Information on DID/MPD
  • The Etymological Antecedents of and Scientific Evidence for the Existence of Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Interview with Brian Moss: Qualities and Information Useful for a Therapist and a Client Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
  • Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory
• Data proving the existence of recovered memory, ritual abuse, mk-ultra and information on the backlash
• Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia – Scientific Evidence and Accuracy Rates
• Memory & FMS
  • Recovered Memory Data
  • Recovered memory corroboration rates
  • False memory syndrome proponents tactics
  • Memory disturbances and dissociative amnesia in Holocaust survivors
  • The Alleged Ethical Violations of Elizabeth Loftus in the Case of Jane Doe
  • A Brief History of the False Memory Research of Elizabeth Loftus
  • The Neurological Basis for the Theory of Recovered Memory
  • Quotes: Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D.
  • Shanley recovered memory case
  • Notes from a practice under siege
  • Ralph Underwager
  • Paul McHugh
  • Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned
  • The Search for Satan – Fourteen Years Later
• Sexual Abuse
  • HOW CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE AFFECTS INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
• Clergy Abuse
• Rebuttals of “Satanic Panic” Theory and “False Memory Syndrome”
• False allegations of child sexual abuse by children are rare
• Parental Alienation Syndrome
• Leaving the Family System: An Honorable Choice

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