Psychiatric raPe Assaulting Women and Children

contents Introduction: The Defenseless Are Targeted...... 2 Chapter One: Rape by Any Other Name ...... 5

Chapter Two: Criminal Acts as ‘Therapy’ ...... 9 Chapter Three: Sexual Abuse Destroys Lives ...... 13 Chapter Four: What Should Be Done? ...... 17 Recommendations ...... 19 Citizens Commission on Human Rights International ...... 20 IntroductThe Defenseless Ion Are Targeted

here could be few more bitter experi- z A woman is statistically at greater risk of ences than the desperate victim who being raped while on a psychiatrist’s couch than accepts help and is then betrayed by while jogging alone at night through a city park. the “benefactor.” z In a British study of therapist-patient sexual Imagine a 7-year-old girl who contact among psychologists, 25% reported has been referred to a psychiatrist or having treated a patient who had been sexually Tpsychologist for help with emotional problems involved with another therapist.2 related to incest. Suppose that the specialist then z A 2001 study reported that one out of 20 also sexually abuses the girl during “therapy.” clients who had been sexually abused by their What must be the emotional upheaval suffered therapist was a minor, the average age being by this tragic victim? seven for girls and 12 Such despicable for boys. The youngest treachery in the wake “While compassion, common sense child was three. of an already serious and decency declare sexual abuse of While compassion, personal crisis could patients to be a serious and criminal abuse, common sense and only burden the victim psychiatrists and psychologists sanitize it decency declare that with further emotional —even the sexual abuse of children.” sexual abuse of patients scars and instability. is a serious and crimi- It is also a damning —Jan Eastgate nal act, psychiatrists criticism of those “pro- and psychologists work fessionals” entrusted hard to sanitize it — with the task of helping people who are extreme- even when the victims of the exploitation are ly fragile emotionally. children. Combining the invented diagnoses On October 31, 2002, French psychotherapist in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Jean-Pierre Tremel was sentenced to 10 years Disorders (DSM-IV) with subtle but perverse in prison for raping and sexually abusing arguments, or even outright lies, they labor to two young patients that the court recognized decriminalize the sexual abuse of women and as being extremely vulnerable. Tremel, age child patients. 52, claimed his “treatment” was based on an Meanwhile, mental health licensing bodies “Oriental tradition” wherein “old men introduce rarely mete out more than the wrist-slap —tem- girls to sexual practices.”1 porary license revocation —a charge of “profes- Such “treatment” is never help. It is a sional misconduct” and temporarily suspend a disgusting betrayal in the guise of help, an all- practitioner’s license to practice. too-frequent occurrence in the mental health z In 2003, the Colorado State Board of industry: Psychologist Examiners revoked the license of

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2 Dr. John Dicke, whose treatment of a 5-year-old boy included using sex toys. According to the boy’s father, his son had been “stripped naked, tortured, restrained, verbally abused, sexually abused, brainwashed and horrified by a dildo” during the alleged therapy.3 z In 1989, Dr. Paul A. Walters, psychiatrist in charge of student health at Stanford University, California and former head of Harvard University’s Health Services’ Mental Health Division, was forced to resign after allegations of his having “fre- quent sex” with a female patient. The woman, who had been the victim of sexual abuse as a child, was awarded more than $200,000 in an out-of-court set- tlement. She said Walters had used her to perform oral sex on him, “sometimes as often as two out of three psychiatric analysis sessions per week.” Some psychiatrists, however, are criminally charged and convicted. z An Orange County, California psychiatrist, James Harrington White, was convicted of the Therapist sexual abuse is sexual abuse. forced sodomy of a male patient. After an Therapist rape is rape. They will never constitute investigation by Citizens Commission on Human therapy. Until this is widely recognized however, Rights (CCHR), White was found to have drugged and prosecutors and judges treat every incidence young men, then videotaped himself having sex of this as such, psychiatrists, psychologists and psy- with them. White was sentenced to prison for chotherapists will remain a threat to any woman or almost seven years. child undergoing mental health therapy. No medical doctor, social organization or family member should hand over any person to Sincerely, face the mental health “treatments” that pass as therapy today. This publication is one of a series of reports produced by CCHR that deal with mental Jan Eastgate health betrayal. It is issued as a public service President, Citizens Commission and warning. on Human Rights International

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Between 10% and 25% of mental health practitioners sexually abuse 1 their patients. To cover up their crime, psychiatrists have used drugs or electroshock in an effort to 2 eliminate the patient’s memory of the rape.

It is estimated that 100 psychologists lose their licenses 3 annually for sexual misconduct but this is rarely permanent. Yet the American Psychological Association expels only 10 members a year for this offense.

Psychiatrists and psychologists redefine and excuse their patient rape as “sexual contact,” a “sexual 4 relationship” or “crossing the boundaries.”

Instead of treating sexual assault of a patient as a criminal offense, 5 licensing boards have dealt with it as “professional misconduct,” with psychiatrists and psychologists thus escaping criminal prosecution.

CriminAliTy is rife wiThin : James harrington white (left) was convicted for child sexual abuse, and Jules masserman, past president of the American psychiatric Association, sexually assaulted four of his patients during drug-induced sleep. he temporarily lost his license but remained as a member of the ApA’s Board of Trustees. ChApTer one Rape by Any Other Name

uestion: When is rape not real- corpses). Understandably, she was enraged. ly rape? Answer: When the rapist However, Noel was the “mental patient.” is a treating psychiatrist or psy- With Masserman declaring Noel was “sick” and chologist. lying, it took seven years of court battles, and other One of the most infamous women going public after hearing of Noel’s case, Q cases of psychiatric “non-rape” before the APA upheld the Illinois Psychiatric is that of Dr. Jules Masserman, Society’s decision to suspend Masserman’s once revered by his peers worldwide as a lead- license to practice. But the suspension was only ing psychiatric practitioner. A past president of for five years, and it was for inappropriate use the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and of drugs, not for rape. Meanwhile, Masserman honorary life president of the World Association remained a voting member of the APA’s Board for Social Psychiatry, of Trustees. Masserman was a The APA did not powerful man. In one country, a see fit to banish one Barbara Noel wor- of its famous names, shipped Masserman, review showed that while claiming the evidence was and considered herself psychiatrists represented only “unsubstantiated”—as if lucky to have him as an insurance company her psychiatrist. Using 6% of the physicians, would pay more than his professional influ- they comprised 28% of the $350,000 in settlements ence, Masserman eas- and Masserman him- ily convinced Noel that perpetrators disciplined self would surrender his she could get in touch for sex-related offenses. Illinois medical license with her “real feel- voluntarily on the basis ings” by taking sodi- of “unsubstantiated” um amytal, a barbiturate used in the 1960s mind claims by his female victims.4 control experiments to block out memory. Noel As reported in 1998, while the U.S. Association awoke during one of the drug-induced sleeps he of State and Provincial Psychology estimated that frequently administered to her, to find Masserman 100 psychologists lose their licenses annually for panting loudly as he sexually assaulted her. sexual misconduct, the American Psychological Noel had never before realized how Association (APA) expels only 10% of these. They deep deception could run. She realized that can continue practicing unlicensed and with their Masserman had been drugging her for years to APA membership intact. use her body sexually, a practice just one step Psychiatrists and psychologists rarely refer to short of necrophilia (sexual stimulation from rape as rape. Instead, they downplay it as “sexual

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5 contact,” a “sexual relationship” or “crossing the ecuted to the full extent of the law. Unfortunately, boundaries” when one of its members sexually that is unlikely to happen if he’s a psychiatrist, forces themselves on a patient, often with the help because while psychiatric rape is punishable by the of drugs or electroshock. justice system in theory, the stark reality is that in Imagine a criminal court judge hearing a most cases professional registration boards deal with defense argument that, “It wasn’t really rape, more it as mere “professional misconduct.” like sexual contact.” Worse still, imagine the victim These boards decide what discipline should is your sister, or your daughter, who sought help be imposed, placing the psychiatric defendant from a psychiatrist in good faith because of a broken beyond the law—rarely are practitioners who relationship. You would rightly want the rapist pros- lose their license criminally prosecuted. Following 1

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PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS are continually facing criminal charges for sexually abusing persons who seek their help. 1) Psychologist Donald Persson (left) was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for the rape of a 12-year-old girl. 2) Psychiatrist Markham Berry (top left) pled guilty to sexually abusing six young boys who had been sent to him for help. 3) Kansas psychiatrist John Lester (top right) was sentenced to 41 months for the molestation of two young boys. 4) Psychotherapist John Ferguson (above) was one of the first to be prosecuted under a Colorado law specifically criminalizing such sexual abuse.

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6 this logic, if a plumber raped a customer, his fate should be decided by a society of plumbers. That of course will not happen and in the same way, neither should such professional registration boards be allowed to operate as law. It follows that psychiatry’s perverted ethics system has been universally attacked as soft and inadequate. Australian psychiatrist Paul Stenberg took his patient to a spa where he rubbed her breasts and vagina, telling her it was “therapy.” He had sexual intercourse with another patient and suggested she try heroin. In 2000, Stenberg voluntarily resigned his license, promising the medical board to reform. Within two years, Stenberg was in the news again for sexually abus- ing patients. “Anne” had sought help from Stenberg for the years of A review of U.S. medical sexual abuse that she and her sister had endured board actions against physicians from their father, while their mother kept it a disciplined for sex-related offenses “family secret.” Anne found that psychiatry and child wanted help to “tame the memories.” “But psychiatry were significantly instead of helping to heal the festering wounds over-represented. of incest, [Stenberg] gouged them deeper,” the Courier Mail reported in April 2002.5 A 1998 review of U.S. medical board actions against 761 physicians disciplined for sex-related offenses from 1981 to 1996 found that psychiatry and child psychiatry were significantly over-repre- sented. While psychiatrists account for only 6% of physicians in the country, they comprised 28% of perpetrators disciplined for sex-related offenses.6 The same year, a report from ’s Social [medical] Board on patient complaints over a four-year period found that psychia- trists were responsible for nearly half of the mistreatments of patients reported to the Board, including sexual abuse. ImporTAnT FAcTs

Psychiatrists who have sexually exploited patients have invented the following excuses: it was in the name of “love,” “impulsivity,” “a 1 judgment lapse” or was really to “enhance the patient’s self-esteem.”

Psychiatrists and psychologists have been greatly assisted in their efforts to avoid criminal proceedings for 2 sexual abuse by the introduction of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders —IV (DSM) and the mental disorders section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

ICD and DSM list sexual molestation of children as a “habit and impulse 3 disorder.” DSM also claims that physically abusing a child is a related mental disorder.

The World Psychiatric Association claims that professional codes of conduct, the study of ethics, or 4 the rule of law by themselves “will not guarantee” the ethical practice of psychiatrists.

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) decriminalizes crime by defining criminal behavior as a biologically based aberration. ChApTer Two Criminal Acts as ‘Therapy’

n a 1986 U.S. survey of psychiatrist-patient her childhood and sit on his lap. When he became sex, 73% of psychiatrists who admitted they sexually aroused he told her it was perfectly normal had sexually exploited patients said they because children were often attracted to their par- did so in the name of “love” or “pleasure”; ents. Gluskie lied without shame; “Genital stimula- 19% said it was to “enhance the patient’s tion releases chemicals in the brain that promote Iself-esteem,” while the remaining excuses includ- bonding between children and adults,” he said.9 ed “judgment lapse,” “impulsivity,” “therapist z On June 21, 2002, the Ohio state psychology enhancement” and “personal needs.”7 board suspended Dr. John Wilson’s license for Almost two decades later, the excuses haven’t at least two years because of his “high need for varied. Those appearing before medical boards narcissistic [erotic self-interest] gratification,” to explain their conduct and ordered treatment have pleaded a “lack of for alcohol addiction. judgment due to stress,” During a session with an “unusually high level Psychiatrists have a woman who suffered of sexuality,” “sex is a even invented a “diagnosis” to trauma from a plane legitimate form of treat- crash, Wilson had ment” and even “true explain why patients are sexually pinned her to a chair love for a patient should and promised her the be allowed.” abused, claiming patients have best sex she’d ever had. Here are some other a “disorder” which provokes Wilson later claimed he psychiatric excuses for had suffered an “alco- deviant sexual conduct: the therapist. holic blackout.”10 z Virginia psychia- The American Psy- trist Robert C. Showalter chiatric Association’s was an expert defense witness in criminal cases Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders until he lost his license to practice in 1999 for forc- (DSM-IV) and the mental disorders section of ing male patients to masturbate in front of him, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD- calling it “masturbation therapy.”8 10) have greatly assisted psychiatrists and z In 2001, Sydney psychiatrist Clarence psychologists in their efforts to avoid criminal Alexander Gluskie, who was awarded an Order proceedings for sexual abuse. The DSM decrimi- of Australia (highest government recognition) in nalizes illegal acts by defining criminal behavior 1999, was struck off the medical register over his as a biologically based aberration or “mental sexual relationship with a female patient. Gluskie disorder.” In this way, dangerous criminals had adopted a “father role” during the woman’s in psychiatry’s own ranks have been excused therapy sessions, encouraging her to regress to of all personal responsibility for their actions.

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9 Paul R. McHugh, professor of psychiatry and scious motives may be in an individual case,” psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital he added, “the final behavioral outcome is the in Baltimore, is openly critical of his own colleagues: achievement of … ‘victory through defeat,’ and “The new DSM approach of using experts and often the defeat is failed psychiatric treatment.”12 descriptive criteria in identifying psychiatric diseas- Psychiatrists invent spurious diagnoses, work es has encouraged a productive industry. If you can to decriminalize flagrant violations and create describe it, you can name it; and if you can name it, deceitful theories and arguments to defend crimi- then you can claim it exists as a distinct ‘entity’ with, nal actions. They have even codified their own eventually, a direct treatment tied to it. Proposals for depraved tendencies and activities into mental new psychiatric disorders have multiplied so fever- health policy. ishly that the DSM itself has grown from a mere 119 In 1996, the World Psychiatric Association pages in 1968 to 886 in the latest edition….” [in 1994]. (WPA) claimed, “Ethical behavior is based on the He admits that some of the disorders “are purely psychiatrist’s individual sense of responsibility the inventions of their towards the patient and proponents.”11 their judgment in deter- In their book A national U.S. study of mining what is correct Making Us Crazy, pro- therapist–client sex revealed that and appropriate conduct. fessors Herb Kutchins External standards and and Stuart A. Kirk therapists abuse more girls than boys. influences such as profes- report that to create a The female victims’ age ranged from sional codes of conduct, the disorder in the DSM, three years old to 17. Therapists study of ethics, or the rule all a committee of psy- of law by themselves will chiatrists has to do is sexually abused boys aged not guarantee the ethical pick a label, provide between seven and 16. practice of [psychiatry].” a general description Is it any wonder that based on “clinical wis- they are generally covert dom,” develop a menu about their true agenda? of diagnostic criteria, check the proposed criteria One exception shameless in its candor, but with advocates for the new category, decide how chilling in its content—was an April 26, 1999 article many criteria must be met to use the diagnosis and, in Washington, D.C.’s Insight news magazine. finally, counter any opposition. Richard Gardner, a clinical professor of child Specifically, the ICD lists burning down build- psychiatry, was quoted as saying, “Society’s ings as “pathological fire-setting,” theft as “pathologi- excessively moralistic and punitive reactions toward cal stealing,” and both the ICD and DSM list sexual pedophiles … go far beyond what I consider to be molestation of children as “pedophilia—a habit and the gravity of the crime.” He actually proposed that impulse disorder.” DSM also claims that physically pedophilia serves procreative purposes.13 abusing a child is a related mental disorder. The complete irresponsibility of the WPA’s Psychiatrists have even used their criteria to policy becomes obvious by imagining the social label patients who report psychiatrists for sexual consequences if Gardner’s view on pedophilia abuse. APA psychiatrist Richard Simons describes ever became the legal interpretation of such “masochistic personality disorder” (MPD) suffer- perverse behavior. ers: “They are the patients who unconsciously Psychiatrists and psychologists cannot be allowed provoke therapists either to give up on them, or to continue to determine the standards of conduct in sadistically abuse them….” Whatever the “uncon- any society, or society risks further degradation.

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10 A reporT of ABuse Robbed of Innocence

n 2000, Oakland, have had a relationship Michigan Circuit of trust with the family Court Judge Alice which you systematical- Gilbert denied psy- ly and severely exploit- chologist Julian ed….”14 IGordon’s bail request, z In 1997, Kansas child ordering him to remain in psychiatrist John Buckles jail pending an appeal of Lester was sentenced to 41 his conviction for molest- months in prison for the ing and sodomizing a molestation of two boys, teenage boy. Gordon, aged 14 and 15. Lester was appointed by a county treating the boys for physi- probate court to work cal and sexual abuse.15 with troubled teens, was z British Psychiatrist sentenced to 15 years in Paul Bridges was convicted prison. The judge stated, of assaulting two boys, “There is no civilization aged 15 and 16, both vul- if we don’t protect our nerable runaways. In 1996, children.” the 15-year-old had visited z The same year, Bridges at his home, where Robert Bruce Craft, a Bridges photographed Georgia psychiatrist treat- him naked and indecently ing abused and emotion- assaulted him. Three years ally disturbed children later, a 16-year-old boy for the State Department responded to an advertise- of Family and Children’s ment Bridges had placed Services, was sentenced seeking “male models.” to 20 years in prison for He, too, was sexually peDophIles: Psychologist Bjarne Skovsager and psychiatrist Alan J. felony sexual exploita- Horowitz were both sentenced to prison for sexually abusing children. assaulted. Police discov- tion of a minor and child ered Bridges was part of molestation. The prose- a nationwide pedophile cutor called Craft’s crimes “deliberate acts that stole ring. However, the only real penalty he suffered was children’s innocence,” and said that the sentence the suspension of his license.16 was too lenient. “If [Craft] served every day [in z In 1992, Alan J. Horowitz, a New York prison] it wouldn’t be enough,” he stated. psychiatrist, was sentenced to 10 to 20 years for z Dr. Burnell Gordon Forgey, a California sodomizing three boys aged seven to nine and for psychiatrist who worked with troubled youth in sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Horowitz defend- group homes, employed convicted pedophiles. The ed himself saying that he was a “normal pedophile.” 82-year-old member of the American Psychiatric Police investigations found a trail of sexual abuse Association pleaded guilty to five counts of oral of patients dating back to the late 1960s when copulation with a 15-year-old patient at one of Horowitz worked for a community organization that the homes. The prosecuting attorney pronounced: helped impoverished, inner-city children.17 “Sexual assault against young people is bad enough, z In 1993, Donald Persson, a Utah psycholo- but when that person is a physician in a white coat gist, described himself as a “moral” person when … he is the devil in disguise.” he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for the z On July 24, 2002, Danish psychologist Bjarne rape of a 12-year-old girl.18 Skovsager was sentenced to six years in prison for As reported in 2001, a national U.S. study of numerous and severe sexual abuses—including therapist-client sex involving minors revealed that sodomy and indecent exposure—against three therapists abuse girls as young as three years old, boys between the ages of seven and 11. Skovsager and boys as young as seven.19 was ordered to pay compensation to each boy. The average age of abused girls was seven and The judge who sentenced him pronounced, “You of boys, 12. ImporTAnT FAcTs

Patients who have been sexually assaulted by a therapist are very 1 likely to attempt suicide. One in every 100 patients sexually involved with a 2 therapist commits suicide. According to one study, nearly half of the patients sexually 3 abused by psychiatrists were already victims of child sexual abuse, incest or rape.

Courts have recognized that a patient’s apparent “consent” to sexual relations with a therapist 4 cannot be used as a defense because of the vulnerable state of the patient and the serious betrayal of trust by the therapist.

The Hippocratic Oath, named after a physician who practiced 5 around the fifth century b.c., and sworn to be followed by all psychiatrists, prohibits sex between doctors and patients. ChApTer Three Sexual Abuse Destroys Lives

n his 2001 report, “Sex Between Therapists psychiatric therapists have committed suicide, and Clients,” Kenneth Pope, the former head and thousands more have been hospitalized of the Ethics Committee of the American because of the harm caused to them. Psychological Association, said: “The health According to an 1989 Australian study, “The care professions at their earliest beginnings Seduction of the Female Patient,” nearly half of Irecognized the harm that could result from sexual the patients sexually abused by psychiatrists were involvement with patients.” The Hippocratic Oath, already victims of child sexual abuse, incest or rape. named after a physician who practiced around Psychiatrists used the patients’ vulnerability to fur- the fifth century B.C., prohibits sex with patients. ther victimize them. They told them that their prob- The historical consensus among health care lems really stemmed from “sexual dysfunction” professionals that such and that the psychia- activity be prohibited trist needed to teach as destructive contin- Psychiatrists told them that them how to overcome ued into the modern their dysfunction by age. In the landmark their problems really stemmed achieving orgasm and 1976 case of Roy v. from “sexual dysfunction” and that having oral sex.22 Hartogs, one of the first “I was very sick and in which a woman suc- the psychiatrist needed to teach I went to him for help,” cessfully brought suit one patient revealed. against her therapist them how to overcome their “I had an incredible on these grounds, the dysfunction by achieving orgasm attachment and depen- court held: “Thus from dency on him. He said, [Freud] to the modern and having oral sex. ‘The best psychiatry practitioner we have goes on in secrecy.’ He common agreement of forbade me telling any- the harmful effects of sensual intimacies between one about the sexual relationship and told me I patient and therapist.”20 couldn’t trust anybody.”23 The ultimate toll of that harm is patient If a patient ever complains, offending psychia- suicide. About 14% of those who have been sexu- trists first blame the patient’s “mental illness,” then ally involved with a therapist will make at least the patient’s inability to “come to terms” with their one attempt at suicide. One in every hundred earlier traumatic experience. Finally, psychiatrists patients succeeds.21 frequently argue that the patient consented to the Factoring in the fearful silence of most “relationship,” despite the obvious abuse. victims—only an estimated 1% actually report Sharon Hamilton, a professional dancer in the abuse—tens of thousands of patients of Australia, is a tragic example of this. During a

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13 charity performance in a jail, she suffered minor have her committed to an involuntary institution, injuries when a prisoner attacked her with a borrowing money from her, and causing her to knife. Seeking compensation, she was referred to appoint him sole executor and sole beneficiary psychiatrist Harry Bailey, who put her under “deep under her will.”24 sleep treatment” —a drug-induced coma with In another case, in 1992, psychiatrist Margaret electroshock—assuring her this would assist in Bean-Bayog faced medical malpractice charges her lawsuit. But Bailey and a civil suit by the seduced her, beginning family of a Harvard a torrid affair. When- “I was very sick and I went to Medical School stu- ever Hamilton became dent, Paul Lozano, disgruntled or threat- him for help. He said, ‘the best who committed sui- ened to expose him, she cide after treatment by was subjected to more psychiatry goes on in secrecy.’ He her. Charges alleged “treatment.” Within forbade me telling anyone about that Bean-Bayog used five months of Hamil- therapeutic tech- ton’s $100,000 award the sexual relationship .…” niques to conduct for the knife attack, she —Abused Patient a lurid and bizarre handed over control of sex relationship with her finances to Bailey’s Lozano. She sent him accountant, who invest- notes complimenting ed $30,000 in Bailey’s him for “phenomenal private hospital. Hamil- sex.” Lozano killed ton became pregnant himself after Bean- and had an abortion Bayog ended their at Bailey’s suggestion. relationship.25 He denied that he was Dr. Gary Shoener, the father. Less than Director of the Walk-In a year later, Hamilton Center, Minneapolis, committed suicide. Minnesota, is ada- During a State mant about such government inquiry, conduct: “Consent is Justice John Slattery no defense. So even if described this exploita- it looks like the patient tion: Bailey “developed had a romance with a sexual relationship the therapist, if it with her” and “used happened during the this to dominate her course of the profes- and to influence her if sional relationship, only indirectly to give it is a felony statu- him money.” Their tory rape. It means relationship “involved that if you prove it physical assaults, pos- happened, you don’t sible abduction, threats, have to prove any- including threats to thing else.”26

MONSTer: After harry Bailey put professional dancer Sharon hamilton under “deep sleep treatment” (a drug-induced coma with electroshock), he seduced her, beginning a torrid affair. C h A p T e r T h r e e Less than a year later, S exual Abuse Destroys L i v e s she committed suicide. 14 A reporT of ABuse Sexual Predators n recent years, more and more cases of psy- patients and had been struck off the medical register chiatric rape have come to light, including: in New Zealand for similar incidents.29 I z On February 11, 1998, Missouri psychia- z On December 10, 2002, U.K. psychiatrist trist William Cone was sentenced to 133 years in Christopher Allison was jailed for 10 years for the prison for sexual and deviate sexual assault of two rape and sexual abuse of six patients.30 patients. Cone told the women they had been Thanks to the courage and determination of weaned too early and needed to be “re-parented,” the brave women who exposed these cases—of- which required having sex with him. To convince ten despite great personal danger and emotional them, he gave them large amounts of psychotropic anguish — some of the perpetrators of these drugs to which they became addicted. Cone claimed criminal acts were brought to justice. that he himself suffered from “alcoholism and sexual However, in many cases the wheels of justice dependency”—a “form of moral insanity brought turned too slowly, on by my obsessive pre- occupation with work, power and perfection. …” On the contrary, the “He is a predator…. These prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General David people came to him for healing Cosgrove, told the and he injured them. I’ve never court: “He is a predator. … These people came had a defendant inflict so William Cone Christopher Allison to him for healing and much pain and so much injury he injured them. I’ve never had a defendant on so many people.” inflict so much pain and —Assistant Attorney General David Cosgrove so much injury on so on psychiatrist William Cone, sentenced to many people. There’s a 133 years in jail for patient sexual assault. message that needs to be sent to this defendant and everyone else in his shoes.” 27 and too many of the Kolathur Unni John Orpin z In 2004, Canadian psychiatrist John Orpin’s 65,000 therapists 1998 conviction for sexually abusing female patients who raped their patients were only suspended was upheld. While the women were drugged, he from practicing (while remaining free) or sim- raped and sodomized them. Some were shackled ply ordered to undergo “therapy” for their own to a wall and beaten with a belt. Dr. Orpin told sexual “disorder.” them that his penis was a “healing staff” and William Masters’ and Virginia Johnson’s 1970 that anal rape was “unconditional love.”28 He report, “Human Sexual Inadequacy,” still holds true: pleaded guilty to assault and sexual assault of two “…when sexual seduction of patients can be firmly women. established by due legal process, regardless of whether z On July 4, 2002, London psychiatrist Kolathur the seduction was initiated by the patient or the rap- Unni was jailed for only 18 months despite sexually ist, the therapist should be sued for rape rather than attacking a female patient during a hypnotherapy malpractice, i.e., the legal process should be criminal session. Unni had a history of sexual assaults on rather than civil.”31

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As of 2007, there have been more than 25 statutes enacted to address the increasing number of sex crimes 1 committed by psychiatrists and psychologists in the United States, Australia (Victoria), Germany, Sweden and Israel.

Surveys conducted about therapy in Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United 2 Kingdom found that “the main problem is sexual abuse or humiliation.”

Not all medical boards recognize that a criminal conviction against a 3 psychiatrist or psychologist should result in the permanent revocation of his or her license to practice.

Currently, if the professional’s college or association is aware of a member’s sexual offenses against 4 a patient and fails to report the matter to the police, they are not held accountable.

American psychiatrist Michael DeLain was jailed in 2002 for sexually exploiting a 16-year-old patient. ChApTer four What Should Be Done?

o progress can be made in the and informed that any behavior outside those matter of patient sexual abuse until standards is inappropriate; that sexual abuse is all such assaults by psychiatrists, criminal, not “boundary crossing.” psychologists and psychotherapists Any person seeking psychiatric “counseling” are legally defined by statute as must have the right to videotape all consultations Nrape: the only required proof is that sex was if they choose, and to end off any questioning or involved. therapy at any time with no threat of reprisal. Psychiatrists often claim sex with clients In 2002, professor of psychiatry Glen Gabbard is “consensual,” though aware of their strong admitted, “The positive aspect of criminalization emotional hold over patients. But if someone is that juries and the legal system may be more has sex with a child, efficient at administering society recognizes the justice than some imbalance of power, “Consent is no defense. So even licensing boards or ethics knowledge and author- committees.”32 ity used by the adult if it looks like the patient had a CCHR, along with and condemns the act romance with the therapist, if it other concerned groups as criminal. So it must happened during the course of the and individuals, has be with a psychiatrist campaigned for stringent and patient. professional relationship, it is a laws to protect women Surveys conducted felony … statutory rape.” and children against about therapy in Nor- —Dr. Gary Shoener, Director of the psychiatric rape. As of way, Poland, Sweden, 2007, there have been Walk-In Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Switzerland and the more than 25 statutes found enacted to address the that the main problem experienced by patients increasing number of sex crimes committed by was “sexual abuse and humiliation.” In 1994, the psychiatrists and psychologists in the United Council of ’s report, “Psychiatry and Human States, Australia (Victoria), Germany, Sweden Rights” urged that codes of conduct be issued to and Israel. “stipulate explicitly that sexual behavior of the Many of these statutes recognize that therapist/psychiatrist is forbidden. Such a behavior patient “consent” is not a defense and that the has to be qualified as abusing the dominant position psychiatrist’s professional or fiduciary duty is of the therapist and abusing the confidence of seriously compromised when he or she enters the client.” into any sexual contact with a patient. Convicted Patients should be provided written infor- psychiatrists can face up to 10 years imprison- mation on professional counseling standards ment per incident and $20,000 in fines.

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17 Convicted psychi- ors. Such laws would atric rapists must be provide a legal option included in the rolls of to parents, guardians, registered sexual pred- victims, attorneys, judg- ators and child molest- es, social workers and ers, making their names child protective services, public so that no further to turn to people who victims can be misled are not part of a morally by their pretense of help “When sexual corrupt mental health only to be betrayed. seduction of patients can system. Those who have expe- be firmly established by due The betrayal of a rienced such abuse are patient through psychi- the strongest voices legal process … the therapist atric sexual abuse is not for such measures and should be sued for rape rather therapeutic or a “harm- must be heard while than malpractice, i.e., the legal less” way to give the still protecting their patient “self-esteem.” personal privacy. This process should be criminal Dr. Thomas Szasz, could be done through rather than civil.” professor of psychiatry closed-door hearings emeritus says, “This is —William Masters and to bring about needed intellectual bankruptcy legislative reforms. Virginia Johnson compounded by moral No child should paralysis. The assertion ever be left alone in a room with any counselor, that sexual contact … may be therapeutic for the therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist. Any young patient is self-serving and stupid. Using it to justify person who has possibly suffered from sexual abuse such sexual contacts is illogical and immoral.” is especially vulnerable and must be protected. Psychiatrists and psychologists take trusting A parent or guardian must have the author- patients down a one-way road to destruction ity to end any interview, any line of questioning, and, too many times, an ugly death by their own any attempt to further upset the young person by hand. The law is the law, written for the protection any psychiatric counselor. The responsible adult of the people. When one group sees itself as must be informed of these rights and the criminal above the law, and convinces law enforcement aspect of sexual contact between a counselor and of this, then no one is safe. It must be made a child. clear, once and for all, no matter how privileged Legislation must be passed which allows for the psychiatrist rapist believes he is, rape is the choice of turning to non-psychiatric counsel- always rape.

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Rape is rape. It is especially grave if a psychiatrist or other mental health practitioner perpetrates it. Criminal codes must state that just the fact of a sexual act between any therapist and patient is “felony rape” with the same penalties as any other rape. 1 “Consent” by the patient is not a defense.

All professional licensing boards for psychiatrists, psychologists or psychotherapists, should refer copies of all patient complaints about sexual abuse to the police, 2 attorney general or prosecutor who are obligated to investigate and prosecute. Any such professional licensing board that treats such sexual abuse of patients as “professional misconduct” should be held accountable for any future sexual crime 3 committed by the therapist.

Any proven complaint of sexual abuse of a patient should also be reported to health care fraud investigators to determine if the convicted felon had also committed fraud 4 by billing his or her sexual sessions as therapy.

A criminal conviction of a psychiatrist or psychologist for a sex crime should also 5 result in the permanent revocation of his or her license to practice. For the individual rape victim: 1. File a complaint to the police if a psychiatrist, psychologist or psychotherapist has sexually abused you. Provide a copy of the complaint to your nearest branch of CCHR, which can assist you in getting your complaint investigated and prosecuted. 2. Above all, do not be afraid to speak out. The lives of hundreds of other women and children can be better protected from such abuse if you do. CCHR will assist you while protecting your confidentiality.

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19 Citizens Commission on Human Rights International he Citizens Commission on Human CCHR’s work aligns with the UN Universal Rights (CCHR) was established in Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the 1969 by the Church of Scientology following precepts, which psychiatrists violate on to investigate and expose psychi- a daily basis: atric violations of human rights, Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, and to clean up the field of mental liberty and security of person. healing. Today, it has more than Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture 250 chapters in over 34 countries. Its board of T or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or advisors, called Commissioners, includes doctors, punishment. lawyers, educators, artists, business professionals, and civil and human rights representatives. Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal While it doesn’t provide medical or legal protection of the law. advice, it works closely with and supports medical doctors and medical practice. A key CCHR focus Through psychiatrists’ false diagnoses, stig- is psychiatry’s fraudulent use of subjective matizing labels, easy-seizure commitment laws, “diagnoses” that lack any scientific or medical brutal, depersonalizing “treatments,” thousands merit, but which are used to reap financial benefits of individuals are harmed and denied their inher- in the billions, mostly from the taxpayers or ent human rights. insurance carriers. Based on these false diagnoses, CCHR has inspired and caused many hundreds psychiatrists justify and prescribe life-damaging of reforms by testifying before legislative hearings treatments, including mind-altering drugs, which and conducting public hearings into psychiatric mask a person’s underlying difficulties and abuse, as well as working with media, law enforce- prevent his or her recovery. ment and public officials the world over.

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The CiTizenS COMMiSSiOn On huMAn RighTS investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue to do so until psychiatry’s abusive and coercive practices cease and human rights and dignity are returned to all.

James P. Carter, M.D. compassion shown by these wonderful Author, Racketeering in Medicine people goes beyond anything I have ever The Suppression of Alternatives: experienced. … Words cannot express my “All over the world, the Citizens appreciation to this organization and all Commission on Human Rights has the help offered.” documented psychiatric crimes. Laws have been enacted in many states in the Dennis D. Bauer Senior Deputy District U.S. to prevent psychiatric sexual abuse Attorney Orange County, California: of their patients, again as a result of the “…I have been a prosecutor for 12 Commission’s work.” years and have specialized in Sexual Assaults and Child Abuse prosecutions Mrs. Margaret Saunders for the past four years. I was incredulous Mother of 22-year-old daughter to find out that a private organization who died under psychiatric “care” in a was following up on leads where we had Western Australian psychiatric facility: drawn blanks or were unable to cover. “[In] the time leading up to Melissa’s I found all [of CCHR’s] personnel very inquest CCHR supported me, they helped positive, eager, intelligent and excep- me to prepare … comforted me when tionally well informed on issues that are things got tough …. The dedication and obscure to the majority of the population.”

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