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

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

), 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. McLean maintains the world's largest neuroscientific and psychiatric research program in a private hospital. It i ...

. 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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hallucinogens Hallucinogens, also known as psychedelics, entheogens, or historically as psychotomimetics, are a large and diverse class of psychoactive drugs that can produce altered states of consciousness characterized by major alterations in thought, mo ...

, and

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

body image Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. The concept of body image is used in several disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry, psycho ...

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

repressed memory Repressed memory is a controversial, and largely scientifically discredited, psychiatric phenomenon which involves an inability to recall autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature. The concept originated in psych ...

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

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* 1972 MPH

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* 1974 MD

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pope, Harrison 1950 births American psychiatrists Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Harvard Medical School faculty Living people Bipolar disorder researchers Harvard College alumni McLean Hospital physicians

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