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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.

  • In a British study of therapist-patient sexual contact among psychologists, 25% reported having treated a patient who had been sexually involved with another therapist.

  • A 2001 study reported that 1 out of 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their therapist was a minor, the average age being 7 for girls and 12 for boys.  The youngest child was three.

  • 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.

  • The Hippocratic Oath, named after a physician who practiced around the fifth century B.C., and which all psychiatrists swear to follow, prohibits sex between doctors and patients.

  • As of 2006, there have been more than 25 statutes enacted to address the increasing number of sex crimes committed by psychiatrists and psychologists in the United States, Australia (Victoria), Germany, Sweden and Israel.

  • Patients are often provoked to justify placing them in restraints, resulting in higher insurance reimbursements—at least $1,000 a day.

  • Thousands of patients each year are subjected to “four-point restraints” after being subjected to known violence-inducing drugs.

  • Patients can become so exhausted fighting against restraint, they can suffer cardiac and respiratory collapse. Many have died, some as young as 6.

  • There were at least 45 child deaths between 2000-2004 attributed to antipsychotic drugs (tranquilizers) in the United States alone and potentially 35,000 child deaths from all psychiatric drugs.

  • Studies show psychiatrists and psychologists do not make more accurate clinical judgments than laypersons. A U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Arizona to limit the use of the insanity defense did so, in part, because any layperson could just as feasibly give an opinion about “insanity” as a psychiatrist or psychologist.

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