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IMPORTANT
FACTS
1. Psychiatrists and
psychologists have the worst record of sexual abuse of all healing professions
as well as the highest drug abuse, divorce and suicide rates.
2. A 2001 U.S. study
showed that one in 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their therapist
was a minor.
3. 10% of psychiatrists
and psychologists worldwide admit to sexually abusing their patients.
4. The symptoms used
to diagnose someone as mentally ill (despair, hopelessness, sadness, guilt)
are not evidence of a disease.
5. Psychology and psychiatry
are not scientific disciplines as they are unable to provide objective proof
of the existence of anything they diagnose or treat.
CHAPTER
FOUR Evil Cloaked in ‘Science’
If churches looked more closely, they would see among other things, that psychiatrists
and psychologists have the worst record of sexual abuse among the healing professions.
Their “therapies” or “ treatments” are worthless at best, deadly at worst.
In the area of child abuse and molestation, psychiatrists and psychologists
have no peers. A 2001 U.S. study of therapist–client sex involving minors reported
that one out of 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their therapist was
a minor. The female victims’ ages ranged from three to 17, and it was from seven
to 16 for the males. The average age was seven for girls and 12 for boys.
In an April 26, 1999 article in Washington D.C.’s Insight magazine, clinical
professor of child psychiatry, Richard Gardner, was downplaying the crime: “Society’s
excessively moralistic and punitive reactions toward pedophiles … go far beyond
what I consider to be the gravity of the crime.” He proposed that pedophilia
serves procreative purposes.
At least 10% of the 650,000 psychiatrists and psychologists worldwide admit
to sexually abusing their patients. According to one study, the figure could
be as high as 25%—more than 162,000.
A 1997 Canadian study of psychiatrists revealed that of the 10% that admitted
to sexually abusing their patients, 80% were repeat offenders. Many had undergone
personal analysis or psychotherapy in an unsuccessful effort to rehabilitate
themselves.
Psychiatrists and psychologists also have the highest drug, divorce and suicide
rate among physicians. In the United States, 40% of all psychiatrists are sued
for malpractice in the course of their career.
These are hardly “experts” to whom churches should defer.
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