Back in the 1970s, Joe claimed...
Despite being personally familiar with that time period in Hyde's history, I had never even heard of Dr. Richard Evans let alone heard of anyone having been sent to him ... until I ran across that
Time article a few years ago.
Which is certainly not to say that it never happened. Obviously, Dr. Evans saw fit to comment on the arrangement. But it must have been a pretty rare or hush-hush event. (Or, alternatively, I could have just been oblivious to it.)
During the period of, say... a year and a half prior to the publication of that article, a number of kids experienced events while at Hyde for which common sense would practically mandate some outside counseling. Just off the top of my head, there was a rape of a student by a faculty member, there was the alleged hospitalization of an epileptic kid due to a bad acid trip, and then there was the forced evacuation of a number of students in the middle of the night due to the mansion going up in flames (the handiwork of some irate fellow students).
I believe the budding young arsonists may have received some outside psychological counseling, but that may have been due to whatever arrangement Hyde School settled on with their parents in lieu of criminal charges.
As far as I know, none of the other kids affected by the above events, be they victims or perps, ever received outside counseling via the oversight of Hyde, let alone from Dr. Richard Evans.
This may have been just as well, since, during the time period in question,
Dr. Evans was on Hyde School's Board of Trustees.Geez. I guess Hyde School wasn't too concerned about possible
conflicts of interest back then, not to mention the potential for emotional damage, abuse or exploitation in
dual relationships, eh?