{"id":39235,"date":"2017-01-18T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39235"},"modified":"2017-01-18T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:09:33","slug":"psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Psychiatry Professor: \u2018Transgenderism\u2019 Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39236\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/800px-Madrid_Bullfight.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39236\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39236\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/800px-Madrid_Bullfight.jpg\" alt=\"Red in front of a raging bull\" width=\"597\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These three authors must surely have nerves of steel. \u00a0(Image from Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry to say that I can\u2019t recall who it was who drew\u00a0my attention to this interesting essay by Dr. Richard B. Corradi, a\u00a0professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/11\/17\/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/11\/17\/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It tallies reasonably well with this piece, written by Drs. Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul R. McHugh, both of whom are psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins University\u2019s School of Medicine:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/executive-summary-sexuality-and-gender\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cSexuality and Gender:\u00a0Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m sorry to say that I can\u2019t recall who it was who drew\u00a0my attention to this interesting essay by Dr. Richard B. Corradi, a\u00a0professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio: \u00a0 http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/11\/17\/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science\/ \u00a0 It tallies reasonably well with this piece, written by Drs. Lawrence S. 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