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*******from 1979 and beyond, I was on the clinical and research staff at Johns Hopkins Sex Disorders Clinic and it's precursor--no expert I knew of ever asserted it could be cured.

So much for your experience at Johns Hopkins Sex Disorders Clinic. Read the following:

****Washington Times
Augut 21, 2002

     If you found the clergy sex abuse scandal shocking, prepare for another jolt: the Catholic bishops are getting their "expert" advice on pedophilia from people who have covered up or even defended sex between men and children.
     The bishops recently chose Dr. Paul McHugh, former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, as chief behavioral scientist for their new clergy sex crimes review board. Yet Dr. McHugh once said Johns Hopkins' Sexual Disorders Clinic, which treats molesters, was justified in concealing multiple incidents of child rape and fondling to police, despite a state law requiring staffers to report them.
      "We did what we thought was appropriate," said Dr. McHugh, then director of Hopkins' Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which oversaw the sex clinic. He agreed with his subordinate, clinic head Fred Berlin, who broke the then-new child sexual abuse law on the grounds that it might keep child molesters from seeking treatment.
      Dr. Berlin admitted he had covered for the sex criminals, angering legislators, child-advocacy groups and state officials. But his actions were not surprising, because "at least eight men have been convicted of sexually abusing Maryland children while under [Dr. Berlin´s] treatment there," according to the March 23, 1988, issue of the Capital. Despite a 1990 Government Accounting Office study that found no therapy program that stopped sex offenders, Dr. Berlin said in 1994 that psychiatry can "effectively control" sex criminals. ****

Especially, please read Dr. Berlin's statement in 1994 which said that, "psychiatry can 'effectively control' sex criminals."

I know Fred Berlin and Paul McHugh quite well and what Fred said was not that the disorder can be cured but that it could be controlled. Fred et al was using medroxyprogesterone acetate as an antiandrogenic therapy--(e.g., chemical "castration") it worked. The problem was that the patients would escape control by going on drug-free holidays. Most of those were referred to us by the court and when they eloped a warrant was issued for their arrest.

Regarding McHugh's statements: The law is clear: The patient owns the record and unless there is a direct threat to harm someone, it is illegal to divulge confidential information. If there is a direct threat made then it is illegal to withold the information.

Harboring wanted criminals is blatantly illegal and that was never condoned at JHH.

Gotta go out--back in a few...