The state board decided to allow her to continue practicing but only under the supervision of another psychiatrist.

The board found that she treated Lozano using unconventional methods, such as aiding his belief that she was his "mom," and writing "explicit fantasies that may have related to him."

Bean-Bayog acknowledges that her treatment was "unique and somewhat unconventional" but says it was appropriate because Lozano was so severely depressed.

Others who were close to Lozano have recently filed affidavits confirming the psychiatrist's claims that he was constantly depressed and often suicidal.

The family alleges, however, that Bean-Bayog had repeated sexual relations with Lozano. They argue that it was the termination of those relations combined with the "regression therapy" that reduced Lozano to an infant and drove him to suicide.

Although the psychiatrist has denied charges that she had sex with Lozano, his family has filed thousands of pages of documents in court, including accounts of Bean-Bayog's sexual fantasies and a set of flashcards she made for Lozano, one of which mentions "phenomenal sex."

Bean-Bayog says the sexual fantasies made public by the Lozano family were dreams that she recorded in private and never meant for Lozano to see.

She says he broke into her office and stole her personal papers along with his medical records.

Bean-Bayog said the reference to "phenomenal sex" was intended to combat Lozano's depression and was a statement he was attributing to his girlfriend.

The psychiatrist also said that she believed Lozano was physically and sexually abused as a child, though his family pediatrician insists he saw no signs of abuse.

The publicity that surrounded the case has spread the accusations to include others at the Medical School. According to a Cambridge psychotherapist, Harvard Medical School faculty members attempted to cover up for Bean-Bayog.

In an affidavit filed April 1 in Middlesex Superior Court, the psychotherapist, Amy Stromsten, charged that Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Bernard S. Levy "was covering up Dr. Bean-Bayog's serious misconduct."

In addition, Stromsten also charged in the affidavit that Bean-Bayog discussed her "erotic sexual feelings and sexual attraction" toward Lozano during a professional consultation group.

The flood of news reports on the case has slowed, for now, only to start up again when the case eventually goes to trial.

Only when the verdicts are handed down will the ordeal even begin to end for both Bean-Bayog and her former patient's family.