Paul R. McHugh is the University Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. He formerly was director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the author or coauthor of five books and has published over two hundred articles in journals and periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, American Scholar, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Commentary.
"As well as admirably empathetic accounts of troubling case studies
and enjoyable subtle demolitions of rival 'colleagues, ' the book
offers a polemical primer on competing schools of thought in
psychiatry over the last half-century. Lest the abuses he documents
irreparably damage the reputation of psychotherapy, McHugh
concludes, his profession ought to take a rigorously empirical
approach to mental health, and cast out 'therapies built on
suspicion.'"--Steven Poole, Guardian (UK)--Steven Poole
"Guardian"
"Dr. McHugh has rendered a valuable service by describing the
lamentable failture of self-criticism of doctors and therapists,
some of them motivated by ideological zeal and others by hope of
gain--and some, of course, by both. He has also given us a timely
warning that we may expect further such episodes of popular
delusion and the madness of crowds unless we straighten out our
thoughts about the way our minds work--or, if that is not possible,
at least about how they don't work."--Theodore Dalrymple, Wall
Street Journal--Theodore Dalrymple "Wall Street Journal"
(11/20/2008 12:00:00 AM)
"McHugh's account, by his own admission, is deeply personal. It is
also deeply disturbing. Vulnerable patients were drugged,
hypnotized and otherwise manipulated into concocting stories.
Scientific method was thrown to the wind. And practitioners behaved
badly--very badly."--Globe and Mail-- "Globe and Mail"
"Try to Remember is a riveting account of his battle against the
repressed memory movement. It is also a passionate plea for
psychiatry as a humane science, grounded in evidence, and focused
on helping people in the here and now."--Michael J. Sandel, author
of The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic
Engineering--Michael J. Sandel
"America''s premier pioneering biological psychiatrist Paul McHugh
blows the whistle on sloppy and trendy thinking in psychiatry. . .
. A must read."--Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., author of Human: The
Science Behind What Makes Us Unique--Michael S. Gazzaniga
"Engagingly written and accessible to a wide audience . . . a gold
mine of fresh insights and constructive suggestions concerning how
we can improve our system of psychiatric diagnosis."--Richard J.
McNally, Ph.D., author of Remembering Trauma--Richard J.
McNally
"Never has psychiatry been so simultaneously inundated with real
science and with so much pseudoscience. . . . McHugh explains to
uninitiated readers how he learned to tell the difference and where
many of his colleagues went wrong."-- Alan Stone, M.D. Professor of
Law and Psychiatry, Harvard University--Alan Stone
"Of all the mad ideas that have swept through the practice of
psychiatry since Freud first undertook to map the unconscious,
probably none has resulted in more cruelty to patients and their
loved ones than those that led to the Recovered Memory Movement and
its adjunct disease, Multiple Personality Disorder. . . . Paul
McHugh is a healer."--Midge Decter, author of An Old Wife's
Tale--Midge Decter
"Paul McHugh documents some of the absurd concepts introduced into
psychiatry . . . his book is of equal interest to those outside the
healing professions as it is to those within them."-- Sir David
Goldberg, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK--Sir David
Goldberg
"Readers of this splendid book will not forget its central lesson:
If psychotherapists do not learn from their colossal mistakes, they
will surely repeat them."--Carol Tavris, Ph.D., co-author of
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)--Carol Tavris
"This is the absorbing, never-before-told story of how a cult of
Freudian psychiatrists went on a witch-hunt across America ...
before a small band of scientists risked their reputations and
livelihoods to expose the cult for what it was: a wacky pack a
quacks."--Tom Wolfe--Tom Wolfe
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