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Telling It Like It Is: When Psychotherapists Abuse and Exploit Telling It Like It Is When Psychotherapists Abuse and Exploit from the Therapy Exploitation Link Line Copyright Fair Use Terms and Restrictions This book, Telling It Like It Is: When Psychotherapists Abuse and Exploit, is copyright-protected by its authors and TELL under the laws of the United States, Canada, and The Creative Commons Agreement. Unless otherwise noted, and with the following restrictions, we invite interested parties to download, copy, print, and link to this book or any of its parts for educational and personal use. Please read the following restrictions: Any use of all of any part of this book must acknowledge TELL as the source. Where authors are named, they must also be acknowledged. Edits, modifications, alterations, or changes to the book and its contents are strictly prohibited. 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This book is dedicated to all those who, in the spirit of good self-care, sought treatment by psychotherapists or others practicing ‘psychotherapy’ only to have found themselves abused, exploited, and made worse by those very people to whom they had turned in their time of need. It is not your fault: You are not alone. Marilyn Nowak, TELL Responder Contributors Anonymous & Pseudonymous: TELL wishes to especially thank those authors who, for a variety of reasons including family concerns, professional concerns, and most of all legal binding by gag orders and non-disclosure agreements, were compelled to use pseudonyms or sign themselves “anonymous.” We commend their bravery in stepping forward to tell their personal and often painful stories in the hope of helping others. Deborah Armintor is an English Professor, city council person, activist, and Mom living in Denton, Texas with her husband and two kids. She is very proud of her survivor Mom who is a TELL advocate. Her mother is a TELL Responder. Bernadine Fox is an artist, author, and trauma survivor who lives with CPTSD and dissociation. For 30 years, she has been an international advocate for mental health consumers, a consultant around trauma issues, and a support worker for survivors of severe childhood abuse and human trafficking. She has provided countless keynotes, lectures, and workshops that address trauma and mental health issues. Currently, she works to arm mental health consumers and advocates about the damage inflicted by the transgression of ethical boundaries in healing relationships. She is the director and host of Both Sides Now, a radio program in Vancouver focusing on issues that impact mental health. Bernadine’s memoir, Coming to Voice: Surviving an Abusive Therapist (2018), is a must-read for anyone recognizing that their therapist became their worst predator. Fox raises her grandson and currently lives in the forest with a couple of cats, one of which has adopted her pet rat as his baby. She is a TELL Responder. She can be reached at [email protected]. Amy L. Johnson, MA, LMHC, has become a passionate advocate for survivors of therapist sexual abuse by raising awareness of unethical practices in psychotherapy, educating professionals, victims, and the general public about this issue, and by helping to hold accountable therapists who sexually exploit their patients. She is a TELL Responder. She can be reached at [email protected]. Linda Jorgenson, J.D. is a retired attorney who has written and lectured extensively on the issue of boundary violations and sexual abuse by psychotherapists and other health care practitioners. She continues to give her time generously in counseling victims regarding their legal rights. Anna K lives in Helsinki. She holds a master of arts degree and works as a book editor. She is “hoping her story can help victims/survivors, but she also hopes it can help professionals do the right thing.” Michele Mauger is British. She writes: “After spending my early adult life caring for my family, and after my therapy abuse experience, I re-trained in medical management and worked in three different medical specialties—General Practice, Forensic Psychiatry, and latterly, Sexual Health and HIV. Following an extraordinary General Medical Council hearing in London in 2011, where my abuser was struck off, I have since appeared in several media interviews and articles about therapy abuse. I am now retired and living in Belgium.” She is a TELL Responder. Brooks Mitchell has been a writer since she could form letters on paper and often under her writing name, Brooks Tiplin Post. She has been feature writer and columnist for newspapers, written poetry, short stories, plays, has created innovative schools where children thrive, was editor and contributor for ten years of the quarterly journal for the Tampa Bay Association of Women Psychotherapists, and helped to create the Therapists’ Council for Environmental and Economic Consciousness, T’CEEC which has an online presence. She lives in Washington State on a salmon river helping her daughter, Merritt Mitchell-Wajeeh develop an unusual and beautiful “bee heaven” farm, part of a habitat benefitting wild spaces as well as organically grown crops. She is completing two books—a fiction: Two Minutes to Midnight and the Evil Eye, set in Florida and Cuba at the cusp of climate changes, and non-fiction Preparing Children for Happiness in the Era of Dinosaurs. She is a TELL Responder. Marilyn Nowak is retired, the mother of 4 children, and lives in the Chicago area. She has been a TELL Responder over 10 years. She was featured in an article that was part of series of investigative reports by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on sexual abuse by physicians. She writes: My goal is to spread the word that you can heal in time and a have a good life. Keeping the secret is very damaging. Healing begins when you realize that you are “not alone, and it’s not your fault.” Gary R. Schoener is a licensed psychologist and the former executive director of the Minneapolis Walk-In Counseling Center and is currently the Director of Center’s Consultation & Training Institute. He has written and lectured nationally and internationally on professional ethics, boundaries and also serves as an expert witness in many cases. For additional information, see: https://walkin.org/consultation-training-institute/. Stanley J. Spero, J.D. is the founder and head of The Law Offices of SJ Spero and Associates, a practice that specializes in the representation of victims of professional misconduct and abuse. For additional information, see: https://www.sjsperoandassociates.com/Attorneys/index.html. Nicole Todd is a mother of four children. Though she currently resides in central New Jersey, her heart belongs to Cache Valley, Utah. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Hunter College and has an MBA from Rutgers. She loves animals and nature. Dr. Werner Tschan is a medical doctor practicing psychotherapy in Basel, Switzerland. He has dedicated much of his professional career to the prevention of interpersonal violence and was awarded the AdvocateWeb award “Boundary Angel” in “recognition of worldwide dedication to victims of sexual exploitation” in 2006. He is the author of the book: Professional Sexual Misconduct in Institutions. Causes and Consequences, Prevention and Intervention. Goettingen, Hogrefe, (2014). Werner Tschan provides solutions for survivors, professionals and institutions in how to deal with professional sexual misconduct (PSM). [email protected]. Ann Van Regan is the mother of four adult children and six grandchildren. She has been involved in advocacy since 1974, when she supported breastfeeding mothers, and then went on to become an unregulated midwife. Ann was a consultant for the Ontario Task Force on Sexual Assault by Professionals as well as an active participant in numerous other groups and legal processes. Most importantly, her experiences of being abused by professionals has been the driving force behind her involvement with the Task Force, as was the death of her ex-husband who died as a result of clergy abuse. She is a long-time TELL Responder. Chatting with a friend about what to say in this brief bio, Ann was told, “Just say how wonderful you are. Blow your horn about all your accomplishments.” “Nice,” she responds, “but really, I am grateful to have been shepherd through my abuse difficulties as well as deeply honoured to have shared the lives of so many women.” Now accepting a cancer diagnosis, Ann is also working to change the Canadian medical system. Wanda S. Needleman, M.D. is a retired psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a dedicated Responder with TELL. Jan Wohlberg is one of the five Founders of TELL, a TELL Responder, and a retired professor of Organizational Behavior. Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the generosity of time, spirit, and skilled work donated by: Bernadine Fox for designing the elegant book cover, editing,
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