Colin Ross, there's a much longer thread about you than this here called
too angry to form a logical argument. Would you be interested in reading it and answering the allegations that came up there?
Some of the questions that came up in that thread, that maybe you'd like to answer in this one, were:
"Mr. Ross, you claim to believe that most supposed memories MPD patients have told you about in therapy are false. How often have you cautioned them against accusing their parents of the crimes they think they're remembering them committing?"
"If you've ever accused the parents of your patients yourself of such crimes, have you ever apologised to them, explaining that you might have been in error to do so because the memories might not have been reliable?"
"If any of your patients ever told you they'd accused their parents of the abuse they remember them committing in their therapy sessions with you, have you ever told them it would be wise to take back the accusations since their memories might not have been reliable?"
"What was the purpose of encouraging them to think they were remembering more and more episodes of abuse, with more and more gory details? Can you explain exactly how that was therapeutic?"
"Did you ever tell them you thought some of their memories might not be real? If not, why did you think it was necessary for them to both believe their memories were real, and to believe you also believed it?"
"How many MPD patients of yours made a full recovery under your care?"
"Please explain why they had to get so much more mentally unstable than they were when you first started treating them before they got better. Was it really necessary?"
"Did you not know about any alternative treatments that would have been much less distressing to the patients than the therapy you put them through at the time? If you did, how come you preferred your own methods that were more distressing to them?"
"If your therapy techniques were the best, how is it that at the Timberlawn mental health facilities you're currently the director of, the treatment does in fact seem to be different, focusing on helping people change their thinking patterns to ones that distress them less, thus encouraging mental stability, rather than the delving into past memories you apparently thought it was so necessary for patients to do in your therapy in the past?"
"Would you agree that you made mistakes in your therapy techniques?"
"If so, are you still selling papers and books that encourage the kinds of treatments you now believe were mistaken? If you are, how can you justify that?"
"If you did make mistakes, what mistakes do you now believe you made?"
"Would you like to publicly apologise now for all the mistakes you made?"
"If you don't believe you made mistakes, can you explain why encouraging patients to recover memories of abuse under the influence of hypnosis and drugs was good for them?"
"You're down on record as claiming that MPD patients can tolerate much larger doses of drugs like Halcion than most people can. In fact, it's been reported that you've prescribed patients 100 times the normal dose! Can you explain just how you came to the conclusion that they can tolerate much higher doses than most people?"
"What exactly is it about an MPD patient that would enable them to tolerate much higher doses than most people?"
"What was the purpose of giving them such high doses?"
"Can you point to any therapeutic breakthroughs that contributed significantly to their recovery, that were made under the influence of such high doses of drugs?"
"Even though the doses of drugs were so high that people's lives might have been put at risk, do you still stand by giving people such high doses? Would you do it today? If so, just why do you think it would be necessary? If you wouldn't, why not?"
Yay, Roma! 