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Mental Health Industry Facts

  • Between 10% and 25% of mental health practitioners sexually abuse their patients.

  • To cover up their crime, psychiatrists have used drugs or electroshock in an effort to eliminate the patient’s memory of the rape.

  • It is estimated that every year 100 psychologists lose their licenses for sexual misconduct, 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 relationship” or “crossing the boundaries.”

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

  • Patients who have been sexually assaulted by a therapist are very likely to attempt suicide.

  • One in every 100 patients sexually involved with a therapist commit suicide.

  • According to one study, nearly half of the patients sexually 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 cannot be used as a defense because of the vulnerable state of the patient and the serious betrayal of trust by the therapist.

  • A review of acts of violence in U.S. schools since 1998 reveals that 38% of children and teens responsible for these crimes were taking psychiatric drugs. The relationship of psychiatric drugs in the remaining school shootings has not been publicly disclosed or the student’s records are sealed.

  • Despite a public warning from the FDA that stimulants can cause psychosis, hallucinations, heart attacks and death, nearly $30 billion of Special Education funds in the United States are spent on children diagnosed as “learning disordered,” who typically are prescribed psychiatric drugs. Moreover, a federally-funded-study found that 80% of those children simply had never been taught properly to read.

  • Numerous medical and educational experts have been critical of the fact that there is no medical test to substantiate ADHD or any learning disorder as a neurobiological or physical disability. In September 2005, the Oregon Health & Science University’s Evidence-Based Practice Center published a report, “Drug Class Review on Pharmacologic Treatments for ADHD,” which had reviewed 2,287 studies—virtually every study ever conducted on ADHD drugs—and determined that there were no trials showing the long term effectiveness of these drugs on academic performance.

  • Another threat to schools is proposals to screen students for “mental illness,” using such fraudulent programs such as TeenScreen. Lawsuits have already been filed against school officials. Educators are not informed that there is no science behind any psychiatric diagnosis, especially those attributed to children’s behavioral or learning problems.

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