{"id":1174,"date":"2014-02-24T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:39:00","slug":"cmon-dr-kluft-arent-you-proud-of-your-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"C&#8217;mon, Dr. Kluft, aren&#8217;t you proud of your role?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140224Kluft.jpg\" alt=\"140224Kluft\" width=\"260\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140224Kluft.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140224Kluft-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Feb. 24, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Why would Dr. Richard Kluft \u201ctake exception to\u201d and \u201c(raise) the issue of legal liability\u201d over \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygreenbergonline.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Psychiatric_Times_-_When_Psychiatry_Battled_the_Devil_-_2013-12-06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">When Psychiatry Battled the Devil<\/a>\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">It\u2019s not as if the record of Kluft\u2019s involvement in promoting \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d and \u201cmultiple personality disorder\u201d could be any longer or better-documented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">And it\u2019s certainly not as if he has ever acknowledged the error of his ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In this exchange from a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/unraveling-the-secret-of-alters\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009 interview<\/a>\u00a0on CBS \u201cSunday Morning\u201d he confidently posits a nationwide epidemic of undiagnosed cases of MPD:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tracy Smith: So do you think that there are, what, thousands of people walking around out there with MPD who don`t even know it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kluft: Oh, easily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smith: Tens of thousands?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kluft: Easily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smith: Hundreds of thousands?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kluft: Easily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Smith: Millions?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kluft: We might be at that level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style408\">Passing off such fantasy as expertise would be knee-slappingly funny, of course, had it not typified the thinking that fostered scores of wrongful prosecutions and ruined thousands of lives&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I remain baffled \u2013 what exactly has Richard Kluft done to deserve such obeisance from Psychiatric Times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 24, 2014 Why would Dr. Richard Kluft \u201ctake exception to\u201d and \u201c(raise) the issue of legal liability\u201d over \u201cWhen Psychiatry Battled the Devil\u201d? It\u2019s not as if the record of Kluft\u2019s involvement in promoting \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d and \u201cmultiple personality disorder\u201d could be any longer or better-documented. And it\u2019s certainly not as if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}