Barbara Dury

Retro Report

Barbara Dury appears in the following:

Exposing the Myths About Eating Disorders

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Eating disorders will affect close to four percent of the American population, around 30 million people, in their lifetimes.

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The Tragic History of the Lobotomy

Monday, April 17, 2017

The lobotomy was promised a miracle cure for mental illness, but instead left patients and families devastated. 

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Decades After 'Dirty War,' Argentinians Find Long Lost Grandchildren

Monday, October 12, 2015

A group called Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo has located hundreds of grandchildren who were captured by a tyrannical Argentine government. 

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The Sixteen-Sided Woman

Monday, November 24, 2014

Shirley Mason, a psychiatric patient whose story was fictionalized in the 1976 movie "Sybil," prompted a spate of multiple personality diagnoses—some fed by hysterics more than truth. 

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The Trial That Unleashed Child Abuse Hysteria

Monday, March 10, 2014

The Retro Report documentary team looked back at a courtroom drama that dragged on for years, and produced a climate of mistrust between parents and preschool teachers during the mid-...

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