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Section 3 Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, August 11, 1976' TempoPeople off court Sex 'therapy' is the couch, into Tower Ticker By Aaron Go'd LmJA LJ txtyr i u. PRODUCTION ON "VALENTINO" has stopped and started so many times in London that the crew fondly refers to the film as "The Battle of the Prima Donnas." They're referring specifically to director Ken Russell and his temper tantrums and novice actor Rudolf Nureyev, who pirouettes into a pout when he doesn't get his way. Meanwhile, the report from the New York locations for Herbert Ross' "Turning Point" is that Mikhail Baryshnikov, another ballet great, making his acting debut (with Anne Bancroft and Shirley Mac-Laine), is a thorough professional and easily transfers his stage magnetism to film. BOB BRIGGS HOPES to sign piano whiz Bobby Short to inaugurate the cabaret policy, sometime in Sep- $fjjj Phyllis Chesler, New York psychologist and author of "Women and Madness," has testified as an expert in three recent malpractice cases that such "therapy" is extremely dangerous to the.patient. All three cases have been settled out of court and in favor of the women bringing suit.

"I DON'T think psychiatrists do this more than gynecologists or lawyers or male employers," says Chesler, who has a Ph.D. in psychology. "Statistics on the incidence- are hard to come byi much like-rape statistics. But even once is too often. I think that class-action suits of sexual abuse should be brought against psychiatrists, and all congressmen." The misuse of personal relationships is a serious problem, says Dr.

Harold M. department of. psychiatry and director of the Institute of Psychiatry at Northwestern University. "IT'S AN ETHICAL issue," he says. "It's a very improper, unethical thing to do.

The damage done is hard to compensate. I feel it should be brought before licensing and registration boards, though Illinois does not license therapists." Dr. Visotsky reports that new guidelines are underway from the American Psychiatric Association. The message regarding sexual intercourse will be: Never, never, never! The guidelines also might rule out touching of any kind, even if appropriate, he adds. Until the rules are laid out, and even after, Cohen thinks it is unforgivable that lawyers should be policing the doctors.

"They should have cleaned up their act long ago," he says. "I even wonder why it took until 1970 for a woman to come forward and sue her psychiatrist." PAULINE BART, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, does not wonder. She knows. "If women have a support group, it's easier to testify," she says. "Testifying is a stressful situation.

However, it's' good to file suit because the process makes the victim feel better, much as in rape. It validates her. It's also good because it helps other women." Ali Fulton Tribunt Photo by Guy Bon. Attorney Robert Cohen says, "So-called sexual therapy is It is never therapy. It's very similar to rape By Carol Kleiman THERAPISTS WHO have sexual intercourse with their, patients under the guise of therapy are no better than, rapists and should be sued for malpractice.

So savs a New York attorney who recently won a landmark decision against a psychiatrist who cuddled up with a woman client on the office couch. "It takes an act of courage for a woman to come forward and stale she has been abused, but women are coming out of the woodwork to file suit," says Robert Stephan Cohen, 37, who won the landmark case against Dr. Renatus Hartogs, 66, a New York psychiatrist. "I'm handling 10 such cases right now," says Cohen, "and I get letters every day from all over the country from lawyers and from women interested in filing suit. The next few years will see a great surge of women in court asserting their rights not to suffer discrimination -or sexual abuse of anv kind." FOUND GUILTY of malpractice.

Dr. Hartogs was ordered by a jury in March, 1975, to pay $350,000 to Julie Roy, 36, whom he seduced on his office couch, stating it would be therapeutic for her to have sexual relations with him. Each time he charged his usual fee for an office visit. Though settlement was reduced finally to $50,000, Cohen believes an important point was made. "So-called sexual therapy is malpractice; it is never therapy," he explains.

"Insurance companies no longer cover this type of malpractice. "It is good that, finally, women are beginning to speak up about this practice. It's very similar to rape cases." Cohen was in Chicago recently to talk about his celebrated case and its reverberations. Julie Roy's story is now a book, "Betrayal," by Lucy Freeman and Julie Roy (Stein and Day, "WHEN JULIE first came to see me, she was like a lost bird with a wounded wing," Cohen relates. His voice softens when he discusses Dr.

Hartogs' former patient. "I knew her; I had handled her divorce. Still, I hesitated a long time before taking the case. Finally, I was convinced what she said was true. "What happened to her could have been called statutory rape.

Even incest. She believed in her psychiatrist; the process of therapy was was as if she were hypnotized. "When it was over, she was much worse off than before. She had to be hospitalized for two months." Cohen describes himself as an "insensitive New York trial lawyer," yet he is clearly outraged by this violation of patient-doctor trust. "It's as if a surgeon would diagnose you as having a cancerous tumor," he suggested, "and instead of taking the tumor out, he puts another malignant one in.

Now you have two problems. "IT'S THE ultimate degradation, worse than 'The Story of because was chained up willingly. My client is a dear and sensitive person. She took the money finally awarded, moved to California, got a job in a bookstore, and bought a harpsichord." Though Cohen's office is flooded with inquiries about similar malpractice suits, Chicago has "no flood of cases of this nature so far," according to Max Sonderby, editor of Jury Verdict Reporter, local watchdog of pending court litigation. Recently, however, a psychiatric hospital in a northwest suburb dismissed a staff psychologist because so many women patients complained of his sexual overtures under the guise of "bioenergetics." PROFESSIONAL groups also are beginning to make public statements about therapists having sexual relations with their women patients, a direct result, Cohen says, of the landmark suit, the publicity, and the refusal of insurance companies to cover this type of malpractice.

"Under no circumstances is it ever justifiable for psychotherapists to have sexual relations with their patients," says Dr. Judd Marmor, psychiatrist and immediate past president of the American Psychiatric Association. "It is unethical and harmful. Every patient is damaged and hurt. There is no rationale that it ever is therapeutic." What happens, Dr.

Marmor explains, is that "the patient has a positive transference with the therapist and idealizes him. The normal safeguards of a normal social setting are removed. The patient is helpless, absolutely helpless." A recent study by Dr. Sheldon Kardener of 500 therapists in Los Angeles shows that 5 per cent admitted having sexual relationships with patients. Another 5 per cent admitted to sexual abuse short of intercourse.

Attorney Cohen believes Kardener's study is "only the tip of the iceberg." So-called sexual "therapy" is probably more prevalent, closer to 10 per cent, he estimates. He adds he has received letters of complaints from women whose lawyers, bosses, and dentists also have approached them sexually. tembcr, in the Ivanhoe complex's Darwin Restaurant. "Survive," the film about the Andes plane crash survivors, grossed $1.1 million in 67 theaters during its first week in New York and broke the first-week box office records of both "Godfather" and "Godfather II" at the Loew's II Theater. It opens here Sept.

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TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Jane Olivor is the most important new singer to play Chicago this year. She opened Monday in the intimate 86-seat Arnie's Wicker Room, and her first show inspired 13 fans to buy her "First Night" Columbia album and return for the 11 p.m. performance. Her potential for stardom is. overwhelming.

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