Harrison Graham "Skip" Pope, Jr. (born 1947, in

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), is an American professor and physician, currently Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an

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McLean Hospital McLean Hospital () (formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and neuroscience research and is also known for the large number of ...

. 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

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, and

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. In his book the ''Adonis Complex'', he argues that the media fuels

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disorders for not only women but men as well. He has also written extensively about

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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.

Education

* 1969 BA

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

* 1972 MPH

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

* 1974 MD

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Bibliography

*Olivardia, R., Pope, H.G., Borowiecki, J.J., & Cohane, G.H. (2004). Biceps and body image: The relationship between muscularity and self-esteem, depression, and eating disorder symptoms. Psychology of men and masculinity, 5, 112–120. *Pope, H.G., Phillips, K.A., & Olivardia, R. (2000). The Adonis complex: The secret crisis of male body obsession. Sydney: The Free Press.

External links

Bio at McLean Hospital WebsiteBio at Harvard's McLean Hospital WebsiteISI Highly Cited Researchers: Pope, Harrison Graham
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