Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
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Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre | |
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Royal Ottawa Health Care Group | |
Geography | |
Location | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Organization | |
Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of Ottawa |
Services | |
Beds | 207 |
Speciality | Psychiatric facility |
History | |
Opened | 1961 |
Links | |
Website | www.theroyal.ca |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, also known as "ROMHC" or "The Royal" (formerly the Royal Ottawa Hospital) is a 284-bed, 400,000 square-foot psychiatric hospital located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a major branch of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (ROHCG), which also encompasses the Brockville Mental Health Centre, the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research and the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health.
History
The hospital was established as the Lady Grey Hospital in February 1910 and known in the early days as “the San.” Over the first 60 years, the hospital admitted 11,000 tuberculosis patients from all over Eastern Ontario. The last tuberculosis ward in the facility closed in 1970.[1] It was renamed the Royal Ottawa Hospital at around that time.[2] Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, a killer who stabbed Canadian heiress Nancy Eaton twenty-one times, was confined to the hospital in the 1980s.[3]
The aging hospital was completely replaced by a new facility designed by Parkin Architects and built in the form of an eight-storey tower by a joint venture of
Pedophilia controversy
Psychiatrist Paul Fedoroff and the ROMHC have come under criticism for claims they could cure pedophilia, despite the medical consensus of the opposite. In 2014, Fedoroff claimed his program can treat pedophilia and other disorders "so successfully that people who were aroused by children, exhibitionism or rape can eventually lead healthy, consensual sex lives."[7] This contrasted with other experts who said, "There is absolutely, positively no evidence that we can cure 'a paraphilic disorder'".[7]
Fedoroff based his claim on his study of 43 men showed pedophilia on a phallometric test (where the men's erection responses were measured). When these men were tested again, 21 of them showed less response to children and more response to adults.
In 2016, Andreas Mokros and Elmar Habermeyer, sex researchers at the University Hospital of Zurich used Fedoroff's original data and applied statistical modelling of Fedoroff's method to test its validity. Their results verified the previous criticisms, showing directly that Fedoroff's method was invalid and that his reported finding was actually a statistical artefact, indistinguishable from random variation.[13] Fedoroff dismissed the analyses and criticisms, however, saying they "are concerns to be raised about any un-replicated study" and asking "Why all the fuss about this one, especially since the news appears to be good?"[14]
In 2017, Fedoroff and the ROMHC continued their claims of success (called a "boast" by the National Post).[9] According to Fedoroff, "We have evidence all day from people who say they’ve gotten better.....People always come back saying ‘This is much better, I enjoy this so much more than what I used to go through".[9] According to Professor Martin Lalumiere of the University of Ottawa, standard treatment focuses on strategies to avoid trouble (such as avoiding situations where the person is alone with children).[9] In the method Fedoroff describes, pedophiles are taught to find sexual stimulation from people their own age, in repeated sessions using adult pornography as practice. According to James Cantor, a sex researcher known for his MRI studies of pedophilia, what ROHMC clinic is doing is equivalent to the failed “conversion therapy” of homosexuality.[9] Fedoroff's response to the National Post was that there is no evidence that pedophilia cannot be altered and that he and his team are "working on" studies to prove their claims.[9]
References
- ^ "The UpBeat: A Royal Ottawa TB Sanatorium reunion". ottawacitizen. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ "Our History". Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- ^ "Freedom weighed for killer of heiress". CBC. Canada. 13 February 2001. Retrieved 2014-11-02.
- ^ "P3 hospital project on verge of construction". Daily Commercial News. November 25, 2004. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ "Telfer Professors study lessons of Public-Private Partnerships". University of Ottawa. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ "Ceremony opens new $132M Royal Ottawa hospital". CBC News. October 27, 2006. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ^ a b Mehler Paperny, Anna (November 7, 2014). "'I thought I'd be that way forever': How do you treat a violent sex disorder?". Global News. Canada. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
- PMID 24636071.
- ^ a b c d e f g Blackwell, Tom (August 16, 2017). "Man says he was cured of pedophilia at Ottawa clinic: 'It's like a weight that's been lifted' But skeptics worry about the impact of sending pedophiles into the world convinced their curse has been vanquished". National Post. Canada. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
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- ^ Fedoroff, J. Paul. (2016, July 29). Pedophilia: Interventions that work. Psychiatric Times.