Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
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As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
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And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
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I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
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