IMPORTANT FACTS

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

2. Psychiatrists and psychologists have been greatly assisted in their efforts to avoid criminal proceedings for 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).

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

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

CHAPTER TWO Criminal Acts as �Therapy�

In a 1986 U.S. survey of psychiatrist-patient sex, 73% of psychiatrists who admitted they had sexually exploited patients said they did so in the name of �love� or �pleasure�; 19% said it was to �enhance the patient�s self- esteem,� while the remaining excuses included �judgment lapse,� �impulsivity,� �therapist enhancement� and �personal needs.�

Almost two decades later, the excuses haven�t varied. Those appearing before medical boards to explain their conduct have pleaded a �lack of judgment due to stress,� an �unusually high level of sexuality,� �sex is a legitimate form of treat- ment� and even �true love for a patient should be allowed.�

Here are some other psychiatric excuses for deviant sexual conduct: Virginia psychiatrist Robert C. Showalter was an expert defense witness in criminal cases until he lost his license to practice in 1999 for forcing male patients to masturbate in front of him, calling it �masturbation therapy.�

In 2001, Sydney psychiatrist Clarence Alexander Gluskie, who was awarded an Order of Australia (highest government recognition) in 1999, was struck off the medical register over his sexual relationship with a female patient. Gluskie had
adopted a �father role� during the woman�s therapy sessions, encouraging her to regress to her child-
hood and sit on his lap. When he became sexually aroused he told her it was perfectly normal because children were often attracted to their parents. Gluskie lied without shame; �Genital stimulation releases chemicals in the brain that promote bonding between children and adults,� he said.

On June 21, 2002, the Ohio state psychology board suspended Dr. John Wilson�s license for at least two years because of his �high need for narcissistic [erotic self-interest] gratification,� and ordered treatment for alcohol addiction. During a session with a woman who suffered trauma from a plane crash, Wilson had pinned her to a chair and promised her the best sex she�d ever had. Wilson later claimed he had suffered an �alcoholic blackout.�

The American Psy- chiatric Association�s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and the mental disorders section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) have greatly assisted psychiatrists and psychologists in their efforts to avoid criminal proceedings for sexual abuse. The DSM decriminalizes illegal acts by defining criminal behavior as a biologically based aberration or �mental disorder.� In this way, dangerous criminals in psychiatry�s own ranks have been excused of all personal responsibility for their actions.

Paul R. McHugh, professor of psychiatry and psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, is openly critical of his own colleagues: �The new DSM approach of using experts and descriptive criteria in identifying psychiatric diseases has encouraged a productive industry. If you can describe it, you can name it; and if you can name it, then you can claim it exists as a distinct �entity� with, eventually, a direct treatment tied to it. Proposals for new psychiatric disorders have multiplied so feverishly that the DSM itself has grown from a mere 119 pages in 1968 to 886 in the latest edition�.� [in 1994]. He admits that some of the disorders �are purely the inventions of their proponents.�

In their book Making Us Crazy, professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk report that to create a disorder in the DSM, all a committee of psychiatrists has to do is pick a label, provide a general description based on �clinical wisdom,� develop a menu of diagnostic criteria, check the proposed criteria with advocates for the new category, decide how many criteria must be met to use the diagnosis and, finally, counter any opposition.

Specifically, the ICD lists burning down buildings as �pathological fire-setting,� theft as �pathological stealing,� and both the ICD and DSM list sexual molestation of children as �pedophilia�a habit and impulse disorder.� DSM also claims that physically abusing a child is a related mental disorder.

Psychiatrists have even used their criteria to label patients who report psychiatrists for sexual abuse. APA psychiatrist Richard Simons describes �masochistic personality disorder� (MPD) sufferers: �They are the patients who unconsciously provoke therapists either to give up on them, or sadistically abuse them�.� Whatever the �unconscious motives may be in an individual case,� he added, �the final behavioral outcome is the achievement of � �victory through defeat,� and often the defeat is failed psychiatric treatment.�

Psychiatrists invent spurious diagnoses, work to decriminalize flagrant violations and create deceitful theories and arguments to defend criminal actions. They have even codified their own depraved tendencies and activities into mental health policy.

In 1996, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) claimed, �Ethical behavior is based on the psychiatrist�s individual sense of responsibility towards the patient and their judgment in determining what is correct and appropriate conduct. External standards and influences such as profes- sional codes of conduct, the study of ethics, or the rule of law by themselves will not guarantee the ethical practice of [psychiatry].�

Is it any wonder that they are generally covert about their true agenda? One exception shameless in its candor, but chilling in its content � was an April 26, 1999 article in Washington, D.C.�s Insight news magazine. Richard Gardner, a clinical professor of child psychiatry, was quoted as saying, �Society�s excessively moralistic and punitive reactions toward pedophiles � go far beyond what I consider to be the gravity of the crime.� He actually proposed that pedophilia serves procreative purposes.

The complete irresponsibility of the WPA�s policy becomes obvious by imagining the social consequences if Gardner�s view on pedophilia ever became the legal interpretation of such perverse behavior. Psychiatrists and psychologists cannot be allowed to continue to determine the standards of conduct in any society, or society risks further degradation.

A national U.S. study of therapist�client sex revealed that therapists abuse more girls than boys. The female victims� age ranged from three years old to 17. Therapists sexually abused boys aged between seven and 16.

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