June 4, 1999
Noted Psychiatrist Resigns From Journal's Editorial Board Over Disputed Article; Essays Explore Tension Between Black and Gay Americans
Many critics of modern psychology are skeptical that "attention deficit disorder" is anything but run-of-the-mill fidgetiness. Now an eminent psychiatrist is charging that one famous patient has recently been misdiagnosed, and posthumously at that.
Paul R. McHugh, director of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, has resigned from the editorial board of The American Scholar over an essay
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