Paul R. McHugh
Paul McHugh, MD | |
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| Born | 1931 USA |
| Occupation(s) | Psychiatrist, Medical Educator |
Paul R. McHugh (born 1931, Lawrence, Massachusetts) is an American psychiatrist. He is an University Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [1] and author of several books within his field.
Career
In 2008 he received the "Sarnat Award" from Institute of Medicine for his work in mental health.[2]
Paul R. McHugh was the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Johns Hopkins University, and psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975 to 2001. His book, The Perspectives of Psychiatry, co-authored with Phillip R. Slavney, presents the framework of thought that has characterized his department. His own research focuses on the neuroscientific foundations of motivated behaviors, psychiatric genetics, epidemiology, and neuropsychiatry. Dr. McHugh was named a University Distinguished Professor in 1998 [3].
Controversy
McHugh is know for publicly defending Catholic priests charged with child abuse. He was the founder and board member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. McHugh identifies as a Catholic, and has been on a Catholic church-nominated lay persons board (2002) charged with looking into claims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, a move criticized by groups representing the victims.
In 2007, McHugh was prohibited by Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison from making further public statements regarding George Tiller, know for performing late-term abortions, and who was later murdered by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder.
McHugh is widely know among the transsexual community for attempting to shut down the gender identity clinic at John Hopkins in 1979, comparing allowing transsexual persons to transition to giving liposuction to an anorexic. McHugh is a proponent of a 'autogynephilia' justification for transition in transsexual women, and has said that they possess an "strange male exhibitionist proclivity". He is against the concept of transition altogether, running counter to mainstream medical science.
Bibliography
- Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind (2008)
- The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry (2005)
- The Perspectives of Psychiatry (1998)
References
External links
- Paul R. McHugh's profile at USCCB website.
- Paul R. McHugh's profile at the TSRoadmap website.
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