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Article: Boston bishop draws fire for move to depose therapists. (Church In Crisis).
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 7, 2003
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A group of 83 psychologists and victims' rights advocates have criticized the Boston archdiocese's new leader for permitting church attorneys to depose the therapists of alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse.
In a letter, the group of practicing therapists, about a dozen psychology professors, and several rights advocates called the church tactic of questioning therapists about their patients a revictimization of those patients who were "already broken members" of the church's flock.
The Boston archdiocese is now headed by Bishop Richard Lennon, who has taken over temporarily as apostolic administrator following Cardinal Bernard Law's resignation Dec. ...