Name Harrison Pope | Role Professor | |
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Books The Adonis complex, Psychology astray Education Harvard University, Harvard Medical School | ||
Anabolic Steroid Use: A Potential Public Health Problem?
Harrison Graham "Skip" Pope, Jr. (born 1947, Massachusetts), is an American professor and physician, currently Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at McLean Hospital. He is also the Director, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean's. According to the ISI index, he is one of the most highly cited psychiatrists of the 20th century. Pope's research focus is on substance abuse, especially anabolic steroids, marijuana, hallucinogens, and MDMA. In his book the Adonis Complex, he argues that the media fuels body image disorders for not only women but men as well. He has also written extensively about repressed memory and recovered memory controversy, arguing that repressed memory does not exist. Pope has been a pioneer in designing the first randomized clinical trials of several currently accepted treatments for psychiatric disorders.
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- Anabolic Steroid Use A Potential Public Health Problem
- Prof Harrison Pope on effects of steroid use and need for research and knowledgeable physicians
- Education
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