Breakdown

On July 3, 1986, following his second year at Harvard Medical School, Paul Lozano sought out prominent Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog for treatment for depression. On April 2, 1991, twenty-eight-year-old Paul Lozano committed suicide, nine months after Dr. Bean-Bayog terminated an intense and unorthodox therapy regimen. A brilliant young man had been reduced to a state of infantile dependency, without, apparently, any further will to live. Here is a revealing look into the imprecise world of psychiatry - a closed society that rigorously protects its eminent practitioners, while…