ABSTRACT
The November 1 988 issue of The Psychiatric Times, a monthly newsletter calling itself “The Newspaper of American Psychiatry,” and distributed to nearly 40,000 U.S. psychiatrists (a competitor of the official newsletter of the American Psychiatric Association, The Psychiatric News), carried as its lead story an account of the lawsuit settlement, under the headline Psychologists Win Over Analysts. The opening sentence began: “American psychologists have achieved a victory as a result of an antitrust lawsuit initiated in March 1985.” Bryant Welch was then quoted in the opening paragraph, outlining the terms of the settlement as a sequence of actions that the American and the IPA were now obligated to take and indicating, as well, the monetary compensation to the plaintiffs. It was stated that representatives of the American had declined to comment to the reporter. For my part, I had never been contacted.
