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In a way the profession was tainted from the start: Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, made up a theory saying that incest is a sexual fantasy because he couldn't believe (according to one source, refused to believe) the incest recounted by his patients against educated, upper-class men including, allegedly, a friend of his. I can't imagine what it was like to be one of his patients, to be told that I had a) made up these incredibly painful memories in my head because b) I wanted them to be true. In a book I finished recently called Toxic Parents, author Susan Forward came right out and warned incest victims not to seek out Freudian psychiatrists for treatment, though of course not identifying as Freudian is no guarantee of proper treatment either. Rape culture is alive and well in the profession of psychiatry.

Edit: I sent the files for Ethics & Behavior 8(2) to the e-mail address you used to e-mail me All in the Family.