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ERODING JUSTICE
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he psychiatric profession purports to be know the causes or cures for any mental disorder
the sole arbiter on the subject of mental or what their treatments specifically do to the THE REAL CRISISIn Mental Health Today CHILD DRUGGINGPsychiatry Destroying Lives
health and diseases of the mind. The patient. They have only theories and conflicting Report and recommendations on the lack of science and Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric
facts, however, demonstrate otherwise: opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and results within the mental health industry diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth
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1. PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ARE NOT MEDICAL president of the World Psychiatric Association Report and recommendations on a criminal mental Report and recommendations on harmful mental health
DISEASES. In medicine, strict criteria exist for stated, The time when psychiatrists considered health monopoly assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools
calling a condition a disease: a predictable group that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In
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an understanding of their physiology (function) with their illness. impact on health care mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs
must be proven and established. Chills and fever
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ERODING JUSTICE
Psychiatrys Corruption of Law
CONTENTS
Introduction: Destruction
of Justice .......................................2
Chapter One: The Breakdown of
Law and Order .............................5
Chapter Two:
The Science of Fraud ...................11
Chapter Three:
Rehabilitation Failures .................15
Recommendations ......................24
Citizens Commission on
Human Rights International .........26
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INTRODUCTION
Destruction of Justice
T
his report is a detailed examination of recently begun to equal and even surpass those in
the fierce assault on the justice system the United States.3 Between 1975 and 2000, crime
that has occurred over the past six also rose 97% in France, 145% in England, and
decadesand not only by criminals. 410% in Spain.4 Sweden now has a crime victim-
There is a hidden influence in our ization rate 20% higher than the United States.5
courts, one which, while loudly asserting its And a study of seven Russian prisons found that
expertise and desire to help, has instead betrayed 43% of the inmates had injected drugs. Of those,
our most deeply held values and brought us a bur- more than 13% started in prison.6
geoning prison population at soaring public costs. The rehabilitation of criminals is a
That influence is psychiatry and psychology. long-forgotten dream. We build more prisons and
The eminent Thomas pass even tougher
Szasz, professor of psy- laws in the belief that
chiatry emeritus at the these will act as a
State University of In the 1940s, psychiatrys deterrent. Meanwhile,
New York, Syracuse, honest people are los-
comments that today leaders proclaimed their intention ing faith in justice itself
the phenomenon of as they see vicious
psychiatrists examin-
to infiltrate the field of the law and criminals avoid con-
ing persons to deter- bring about the re-interpretation viction through the use
mine whether or not of bizarre and incom-
they are responsible is and eventually eradication of the prehensible defense
[a] common feature tactics.
of our social land-
concept of right and wrong. In the 1940s, psy-
scape. 1 At the same chiatrys leaders pro-
time he recognizes that claimed their intention
psychiatry is the single most destructive force to infiltrate the field of the law and bring about
that has affected society within the last 60 years. the re-interpretation and eventually eradication
Shocking? No doubt. But also well-reasoned of the concept of right and wrong.
and insightful. Dr. Szasz is an internationally The rule of law and a functioning and fair
acclaimed author of over 30 books. He has both system of legal administration sets apart enlight-
the experience and the stature to declare that the ened democracies from totalitarian states.
psychiatric profession has been gradually but Citizens have the right to rely on the system for
steadily undermining the foundations of our cul- their peace and safety.
tureindividual responsibility, standards of Looking back, psychiatrist Karl Menningers
achievement, education and justice. The bottom jubilant declaration that a 1954 decision by the
line, he says, is that psychiatrists have been Federal Court of Appeals in Washington,
largely responsible for creating the problems they D.C. was more revolutionary in its total effect
have ostensibly tried to solve. than the Supreme Court decision on ending the
Between 1965 and 2001, the U.S. violent crime segregation of African-Americans from Whites
rate for under 18-year-olds increased by more now has a prophetic quality. He was referring
than 147%, and for drug abuse violations, by over to the ruling that held a mentally defective
2,900%.2 Violent crime rates throughout the person is not criminally responsible for
European Union, Australia and Canada have unlawful acts.
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IMPORTANT FACTS
Psychiatrys and psychologys
influence in the courtroom has
eroded the once-firm basis of
justice: the differentiation of
right and wrong.
CHAPTER ONE
The Breakdown of
Law and Order
C
elebrated nineteenth century quences of their actions through this type of per-
humorist and author Mark Twain version of the principles of justice, then the very
noted, Insanity is certainly on the tool that society has to protect itself has been
increase in the world, and crime is obliterated.
dying out. Formerly if you killed Thomas Szasz in his book, The Myth of
a man, it was possible that you were insane Mental Illness, is uncompromising on this point:
but now if you kill a man it is evidence that The introduction of psychiatric considerations
you are a lunatic. into the administration of the criminal law
Once there was the idea that a person is for example, the insanity plea and verdict,
responsible for his diagnoses of mental
own actions. It is an incompetence to stand
idea that has gone the Although psychiatry clothes trial, and so forth
way of the dinosaur. corrupt the law and
Take this case of itself in the trappings of science victimize the subject
prominent Virginia attor- and seeks to influence the on whose behalf
ney T. Brook Howard they are ostensibly
an all-too-common sce- standards by which we decide employed.10
nario. His client admit-
ted to having kid-
criminal responsibility, strict Insanity Defense
napped a 30-year-old reliability in its diagnoses is rare. Although the
woman, holding her insanity defense is
hostage for over nine Ralph Adam Fine, introduced in less
hours, during which Trial judge, author of Escape of the Guilty than 2% of all crimi-
period he repeatedly nal trials, it is one of
sexually assaulted her. the most controver-
With great conviction, Howard explained to sial and hotly debated issues in American and
the judge and jury that what the victim had British criminal law. Professor Francis Allen said
experiencedthe abduction, the psychological of it, The issue of criminal responsibility has
torture and the repeated rapeswere not his attracted more attention and stimulated more
clients fault. A psychiatrists testimony said controversy than any other question in the sub-
his client just couldnt help himself; that it was stantive criminal law.11
an irresistible impulse. Dr. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D., a Boston
On the basis of the psychiatrists grotesque University lecturer in psychology and law, says
testimony, the rapist was acquitted. that there only appears to be a low percentage of
If criminals are able to evade the conse- insanity defense use, The statistics are true
CHAPTER ONE
Th e B re a k d o w n o f L aw a n d O rd e r
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when we look only at straight cases of Not Guilty possibly be sound or workable which is depend-
by Reason of Insanity. But what changes the pic- ent upon the terms of another discipline whose
ture significantly are defenses such as dimin- members are in profound disagreement about
ished mental ability, which induce prosecutors what those terms mean.14
to bring a lesser charge as well as cases in which Jeffery Harris, Executive Director of the U.S.
the alleged mental condition reduces the amount Attorney Generals Task Force on Violent Crime,
of time served.12 observed, What amazes me is that in any trial Ive
According to trial judge Ralph Adam Fine ever heard of, the defense psychiatrist always says
in Escape of the Guilty, Although psychiatry the accused is insane, and the prosecuting
clothes itself in the trappings of science and seeks psychiatrist always says hes sane. This happened
to influence the standards by which we decide invariably, in 100% of the cases, thus far exceeding
criminal responsibility, strict reliability in its the laws of chance. You have to ask yourself, What
diagnoses is rare.13 is going on here? The insanity defense is being
Chief Justice Warren Burger was incensed used as a football and quite frankly, youd
about the lack of a scientific basis for psychia- be better off calling Central Casting to
trists testimony, whose opinions were therefore get expert psychiatric testimony in a
in conflict with each other: No rule of law can criminal trial.15
CHAPTER ONE
Th e B re a k d o w n o f L aw a n d O rd e r
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Professor Szasz adds, It is unlikely that It could hardly hurt [the diagnostic] accuracy rate
toxicologists would be tolerated in courts of law that hovers at less than one out of three times cor-
if one would observe that he found a large quan- rect. There is no psychological cure for the
tity of arsenic in the body of a deceased person, desire to beat up women, to rape and murder
and another stated that he found by the same them. The very idea that [psychology] today could
operation none. Yet this sorry spectacle is com- even pretend to such an ability is ludicrous .17
monplace in regard to psychiatric findings.16 In view of such eminent good sense, how is it
Dr. Hagen, who authored Whores of the Court, that we face the absurd situation of psychiatrists
The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of testifying to excuse the wrongdoers actions?
American Justice, says: Why not just flip pennies Especially in view of the fact they have proven
or draw cards? Why not put on a blindfold and beyond doubt their inability to agree with each
choose without being able to identify the patients? other, let alone cure anyone.
97%
67% increase
increase
P
sychiatrys increasing influ-
ence in criminal justice has
produced only escalating
crime rates internationally. Although
incapable of either predicting future
dangerousness or of rehabilitating
criminals, psychiatrists still testify in
court on behalf of the highest bid-
der, asserting that offenders are not
responsible for what they have
done, but are instead victims of
fictitious mental disorders. The
result is rising crime, as lawbreakers
are put back on the streets to wreak
more havoc, unrepentant and
uncorrected.
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INSANITY DEFENSE
The Beginning of the End
I n 1812, the father of
American psychiatry,
Benjamin Rush, wrote
his Medical Inquiries and
Observations upon the
explain the state of mind of the offenders. Dr. White
testified that the young mens murderous behavior
was the product of impulses contrary to their con-
scious ideals but expressive of certain strange
unconscious strivings that, for reasons not clear,
Diseases of the Mind, overwhelmed their control. Never questioning the
claiming crime to be a lack of science to this, the Court of Appeals for the
curable disease. Viewing District of Columbia adopted the defense of irre-
murder and theft as sistible impulse an impulse that could override
symptoms of this dis- the reason and judgment and obliterate the sense
ease, he sought to have of right and wrong.19
the perpetrators trans- Using the case as a springboard, Dr. White and
ferred from the control the American Psychiatric Association recommend-
of policemen to that of ed that a psychiatrist be attached to every criminal
psychiatrists.18 Prior to and juvenile court and
this, the insanity plea every penal and correc-
was a legal, not a med- tional institution, that
ical decision. no sentence for any
felony be made without
1843: The McNaughton a psychiatric report, and
case was the first famous that a psychiatric evalu-
Benjamin Rush legal test for insanity. ation be conducted on
Englishman Daniel every prisoner convicted
McNaughton shot and killed the secretary of the of a felony before
British Prime Minister, believing that the Prime he was released, or
Minister was conspiring against him. The court before he was placed
acquitted McNaughton by reason of insanity and on parole or transferred
he was placed in a mental institution for the rest of to another institution.
his life. Consequently psychi-
Judge Bazelon atric departments were
1924: Nathan Leopold established in juvenile
and Richard Loeb, two Judge Bazelon succeeded in courts and prisons.
young Americans from
affluent families, were
deforming liberty by ostensibly reforming 1954: The landmark
charged with the sense- criminology and psychiatryan Durham decision estab-
less killing of a younger enterprise whose worth he gravely lished psychiatry solidly in
companion. Prominent misjudged, partly by thinking that it is the court systems and set
psychiatrists, including good, when it is evil, and partly by the precedent for the rest
William Alanson White, believing that it rests on new discoveries of the world. On July 13,
the president of the 1951, Monte Durham, a
American Psychiatric
when in fact it rests on old deceptions. 23-year-old man with a
Association (APA), were Dr. Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist, long criminal and psychi-
hired by the families to author of Psychiatric Slavery, 1977 atric history, was tried
INSANITY DEFENSE
The Beginning of the End
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Psychiatric expert
testimony was used
by attorney Clarence
Darrow (left) in
1924 to successfully
argue that confessed
killers Leopold and
Loeb (below)were
not responsible for
their acts.
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The Beginning of the End
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IMPORTANT FACTS
1 According to the
American Psychiatric
Associations Diagnostic &
Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders IV (DSM-IV ) when
its mental disorder descriptions
are employed for forensic
purposes, there are significant
risks that diagnostic informa-
tion will be misused and
misunderstood.
3 A survey conducted on
the Australian judiciary
about their views of expert
witnesses found widespread
lack of confidence in
psychiatry as a forensic tool.
4 According to a 1988
paper written by a
psychologist, studies
show that professional
clinicians do not in fact
make more accurate clinical
judgments than lay persons.
CHAPTER TWO
The Science
of Fraud
I
n a 1962 article in the Northwestern Law Review, general public thinks the jury is any more than a
psychiatrist Alfred Baur cited a case where his bunch of idiots. So what did manage to paralyze
hospital received a patient for a three-month the two sets of twelve men and women? It was the
observation before he was to go on trial. Baur fact that no two psychiatrists could agree on
and two colleagues concluded that he had no the boys mental diagnosis and the psychiatric
mental disorder. The court, however, appointed two notion that criminality is excusable.
private psychiatrists to give their expert opinions. After two trials, the brothers were convicted.
One announced that the patient was a paranoid But questions continued about the role of psychia-
schizophrenic; the other said he was merely in a trists and psychologists in our courts. An essay
paranoid state. Come the trial, the hospital psychia- on the case by Margaret Carlson, published in
trists testified that the TIME magazine, said:
patient was not insane, Victimology has turned
while the two court-
When the DSM-IV categories, to be the winning tactic
appointed psychiatrists criteria, and textual descriptions of our era. In the
insisted that he was. are employed for forensic purposes, Menendez case, the law
The final irony in this has been so stretched
ludicrous situation was,
there are significant risks that that an unreasonable
as Baur reported, The diagnostic information will be belief that one is in dan-
jury thereupon found misused and misunderstood. ger of serious harm
the man not guilty by one no sane person
reason of insanity and DSM, American Psychiatric Association,1994 would harborcan be
still insane and then sufficient grounds for
committed him to the hospital which had just self-defense. How did we go from a society that dis-
found him without mental disorder.25 tinguished right from wrong to one that under-
In 1994, an amazed world watched two stands all and punishes nothing?26
California juries become hopelessly deadlocked in The answer lies in the goal for psychiatry
the trials of Erik and Lyle Menendez, adult brothers delineated by C. Brock Chisholm, co-founder of the
who had brutally murdered their parents in the fam- World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH)that
ilys $4 million (3.3 million) home. A team of psy- therapy be aimed at eliminating the concept of right
chiatrists, psychologists and therapists were hired to and wrongand, bolstering this, the American
build their defense. Utah psychologist Ann Tyler tes- Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical
tified that the brothers suffered from learned help- Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the mental
lessness as a result of intense, repeated abuse. disorders section of the International Classification of
Another psychologist, John Wilson, claimed the Diseases (ICD-10).
boys had post-traumatic stress disorder. Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a
One of the jurors remarked, I dont think the probable cause, appropriate treatment and likely
CHAPTER TWO
Th e S ci e n c e o f Fra u d
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prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV [and ICD- disease. In 2003, Gigante admitted he was a fake
10] are terms arrived at through peer consensusa and had knowinglyand easilymisled the high-
vote by APA committee membersand designed est paid psychiatrists for three decades.31
largely for billing purposes, reports Canadian psy- When imagined mental disorders absolve the
chologist, Dr. Tana Dineen.27 In other words, there is guilty of their crimes through an insanity defense
no objective science to it. (e.g., pyromania disorder for arson; pedophilia
As Dr. Margaret Hagen points out: Our legal disorder for child molestation), and wholly fictitious
system has been told that clinical psychology is a sci- conditions are created to convict the innocent (e.g.,
entific discipline, that its theories and methodology are feeding imaginary recollections of child molestation
those of a mature science, and our legal system has to patients who then accuse their parents and others
believed it. Given the deplorable state of the science under the fabricated repressed memory syn-
of clinical psychology, that is truly unbelievable.28 drome), society is truly in trouble. And when crimi-
In a survey conducted on the Australian judiciary nals are acquitted because psychiatrists swear they
about their views of expert witnesses, Dr. Ian are insane, only to be sent to psychiatric institutions
Freckelton, one of where their violent madness
the nations leading Our legal system has been told will become aggravated by
authorities on the drugs, then the totalitarian
medico-legal maze,
that clinical psychology is a scientific brave new worldfree of
found a widespread discipline, and our legal system has moral restraint as envision-
crisis of confidence in believed it. Given the deplorable state of ed by WFMH co-founders
psychiatry as a foren- the science of clinical psychology, Drs. Rees and Chisholm
sic tool.29 Judges has been realized.
think its a soft sci- that is truly unbelievable. As long ago as 1884,
ence, he said, noting Dr. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D. the New York Court
the DSM has strict of Appeals stated that
caveats against its use in court. twelve jurors of common sense and common
According to the DSM-IV, itself, When the experience would do better on their own than
DSM-IV categories, criteria, and textual descrip- with the help of the hired experts, whose opinions
tions are employed for forensic purposes, there are cannot fail to be warped by a desire to promote the
significant risks that diagnostic information will be cause in which they are enlisted.32 Since then there
misused and misunderstood. And it is not suffi- has been the long and well-established tradition of
cient to establish the existence for legal purposes of psychiatrists and psychologists selling themselves
a mental disorder, mental disability, or mental for a sizeable profit to the point where the pursuit
defect, in relation to competency, criminal respon- of truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
sibility or disability. has given way to reams of meaningless data, fear-
Studies show that psychiatrists and psycholo- ful elaborate speculation and fantastic conjecture.
gists do not make more accurate clinical judgments Courts resound with elaborate, systemized, jargon-
than laypersons.30 Consider the case of Vincent the filled, serious-sounding deceptions that fully
Chin Gigante, the boss of a New York crime family, deserve the contemptuous label used by trial
convicted of racketeering and murder conspiracy. lawyers themselves: junk science.33
Feigning mental illness for more than 30 years, Yet during trials, in sentencing, in probation
whenever he went to trial, the mobster hired hearings, psychiatrists are still called upon for
psychiatrists who testified that he suffered from their opinions. And, sadly, these opinions are
paranoid schizophrenia, dementia and Alzheimers considered.
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IMPORTANT FACTS
CHAPTER THREE
Rehabilitation
Failures
I
n a 1995 Los Angeles Times article on juvenile an ongoing counseling program in one of their
crime, Vincent Schiraldi, founder and execu- medium-security prisons found that, within three
tive director of the Center on Juvenile and years of parole, 78% of the men who had received
Criminal Justice, a San Francisco think tank, psychological counseling experienced further
wrote, We should start holding the [justice] minor and major problems with the law or had
system accountable. If two out of three Toyotas returned to prison.37
broke down within a A major part of the
year of coming out of the treatment for prison
factory, Toyota would be inmates is a regimen of
out of business. But if
The job of rehabilitation powerful psychotropic
two out of three kids making productive citizens out of drugs, used less for reha-
coming out of juvenile these criminalsis a job that has bilitation than for man-
institutions re-offend, we aging and disciplining
build bigger juvenile
been taken on at great expense by them.
institutions. psychiatry. As usual, in the face of A 1975 Canadian
And it is time to imposing failure, its response has been study on the effects of
hold the psychiatrists psychiatric drugs on
and psychologists in our
to ask for yet more money because prisoners discovered
penal system responsible. of the seriousness of the situation. that violent, aggressive
As the self-appointed incidents occurred signif-
experts on human icantly more frequently in
behavior, rehabilitation is their job. They are paid for inmates who were on psychotropic [mind-altering,
precisely this function. In and of themselves, prisons psychiatric] medication than when these inmates
are simply warehouses where men and women can were not on psychotropic drugs.38
be kept so that they no longer harm society. The job A 1990 study determined that 50% of all
of rehabilitationmaking productive citizens out of fights in a psychiatric ward could be tied to
inmatesis a job that has been taken on, at great drug-induced akathisia (an inability to keep
expense to the taxpayer, by psychiatry. still), a side effect often causing assaultive,
And, as usual, in the face of imposing failure, violent behavior. 39
their response has been to ask for yet more money Another study concluded that moderate-to-high
because of the seriousness of the situation. doses of one major tranquilizer made half of the
However, a close inspection of the facts reveals patients markedly more aggressive. Patients described
their ineptitude: being tormented by violent urges to assault anyone
A long-term research project by the California near and wanting to kill the motherf____s.40
Department of Corrections into the effectiveness of A 2000 Swedish study of 47 juvenile
CHAPTER THREE
Rehabilitation Failures
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UNSAFE PASSAGE
Predicting Dangerousness?
A t the 1994 sen-
tencing of a
convicted child
killer to life in prison,
Winnipeg Associate Chief
accumulated research
literature indicates that
errors in predicting
dangerousness range
from 54% to 94%, aver-
Justice Oliphant quoted aging about 85%.47
a report written long An American Psy-
before the crime by the chiatric Association task
Director of Forensic Psy- force admitted as much
chiatry for the Province in its 1979 Amicus
of Manitoba. In 1989, Curiae Brief to the U.S.
predicting the danger- Supreme Court, in
ousness of the defen- which it stated, It has
dant, the director had been noted that dan-
written: There is noth- gerousness is neither
ing to indicate that he is a psychiatric nor a
an antisocial individual medical diagnosis, but
and he is not prone to involves issues of
expressions of aggres- legal judgment and
sion or violence I do definition, as well
not feel that he repre- as issues of social policy.
sents a physical threat Psychiatric exper tise
to the community in in the prediction of
general he is not, Psychiatric opinion and theories have no place in our halls of justice. dangerousness is
in my opinion, a dan- not established and
gerous person.45 clinicians should avoid conclusory judgments in
After reading this aloud in his court, Justice this regard. 48
Oliphant adjudicated, My comment, having read In response, the Supreme Court rendered the
this, and viewing what has transpired since, is that opinion that, the professional literature uniformly
psychiatry can certainly not be described as a establishes that such predictions are fundamentally
science. [Emphasis added]. of very low reliability, and that psychiatric testimo-
In the courtroom, case after case proves ny and expertise are irrelevant to such predictions.
the inability of psychiatrists to predict the acts of In view of these findings, psychiatric testimony on
criminals. the issue of future criminal behavior only distorts
In a 1976 article in the Rutgers Law Review, the fact-finding process.
authors Henry Steadman and Joseph Cocozza con- In 2002, Kimio Moriyama, vice president of
cluded, There is no empirical evidence to support the Japanese Psychiatric Association further
the position that psychiatrists have any special admitted, [I]t is impossible for [psychiatric] sci-
expertise in accurately predicting dangerousness.46 ence to tell whether someone has a high potential
With twenty more years of research to draw to repeat an offense.49
from, Terrence Campbell wrote in a 1994 article in Despite such admissions, the concept of
the Michigan Bar Journal, The accuracy with dangerousness is still used in courts and during
which clinical judgment predicts future events is involuntary commitment procedures of so-called
often little better than random chance. The mental patients.
U N S A F E PA S S A G E
Predicting Dangerousness?
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IMPORTANT FACTS
2 According to a 2001
report, one out of every
20 clients who had been
sexually abused by their
therapist was a minor.
4 Psychiatrists and
psychologists are
over-represented in the
healthcare industry for
convictions for fraud, sexual
abuses and other crimes.
CHAPTER FOUR
Crime Amongst
the Experts
I
t is an old maxim that if a person wants to light onto the question how such an attitude is
break the law with impunity he must possible among a profession that claims to deal in
become the lawa maxim taken to heart by mental health.
psychiatrists. According to a 2001 study, one out of every
We have shown in this report that 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their
psychiatrists and psychologists are willing to therapist was a minor, the average age being
blatantly twist logic in an effort to invent an seven for girls and 12 for boys.51 The youngest
apology for a peers crimes. What is left to pres- sexually molested child was three.
ent are the facts that Of the 650,000 psy-
demonstrate that these chiatrists and psycholo-
professions have a dis- Of the 650,000 gists worldwide today,
proportionately high at least 10%, or 65,000,
proclivity towards crime. psychiatrists and psychologists admit to sexually abus-
In many cases, those worldwide today, at least 10% ing their patients. Some
who have acted as studies estimate that
apologists for fellow of them admit to sexually the figure is as high
psychiatrists crimes, abusing their patients; 65,000 as 25%.
were later exposed and A 1997 Canadian
arrested for similar professionals whose study of psychiatrists
criminality. therapy admittedly showed that up to 10%
What most offends had sexually abused
peoples natural sense includes sexual abuse. their patients; 80% of
of justice and under- those were repeat
standing of right and offenders. Many had
wrong are psychiatric efforts to downplay even already undergone personal analysis or
crimes against children. psychotherapy in an unsuccessful effort to
Consider the advice of clinical professor of rehabilitate themselves.52
child psychiatry, Richard Gardner, who was In a 1999 British study of therapist-patient
quoted in a 1999 Washington, D.C. Insight news sexual contact among psychologists, 25%
magazine, saying, Societys excessively moralis- reported having treated a patient who had been
tic and punitive reactions toward pedophiles sexually involved with another therapist.53
go far beyond what I consider to be the gravity of Psychiatry and psychology have the dubious
the crime. Gardner proposed that pedophilia distinction of having more than 25 statutes
serves procreative purposes.50 specifically designed to address the increasing
The following statistical information throws number of sex crimes committed by its members.
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The cumulative
jail sentences of
the psychiatrists
and psychologists
shown on these two
pages for rape and
other crimes
total more than
Donald Persson
165 years.
Alan Horowitz
The following is a very small sample of the described himself as a moral person when he
types of convictions for sexual crimes: was sentenced in 1993 to 10 years imprisonment
In 1992, Alan J. Horowitz, a New York psy- for the rape of a 12-year-old girl.54
chiatrist, was sentenced 10 to 20 years for On December 10, 2002, U.K. psychiatrist
sodomizing three boys aged seven to nine, and Christopher Allison was jailed for 10 years for
for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Horowitz the rape and sexual abuse of six patients.55
defended himself saying that he was a normal On July 4, 2002, London psychiatrist
pedophile. Kolathur Unni was jailed for 18 months for the
Missouri psychiatrist William Cone, sexual attack on a female patient during a hyp-
sentenced in 1998 to 133 years in prison for sexual notherapy session. Unni had a history of sexual
assault of two women, had told his victims they assaults on patients and had been struck off the
were weaned too early and required re-parent- medical register in New Zealand for similar
ing by having sex with him. incidents.56
Donald Persson, a Utah psychologist, On July 24, 2002, Danish psychologist,
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Bjarne Skovsager (54), was sentenced to six years therapy. In 1999, he was convicted of overbilling
in prison for numerous and severe sexual abus- insurers, sentenced to six months of house arrest,
esincluding sodomy and indecent exposure two years probation, and fined $20,000 (16,527).60
against three boys between the ages of seven and In 2000, German psychiatrist Otto Benkert
11. Skovsager was ordered to pay compensation was sentenced to 11 months in jail, suspended in
to each boy. The judge who sentenced him stated, lieu of probation, fined over $176,000 (145,443)
You have had a relationship of trust with the and ordered to pay $704,683 (582,335) in com-
family which you systematically and severely pensation for defrauding the university where he
exploited.57 worked as the Chief of Psychiatry.61
A study of Medicaid and Medicare insurance On August 6, 2002, Canadian psy-
fraud in the United chotherapist Michael
States, especially in Bogart was sentenced
New York, between to 18 months in
1977 and 1995, showed prison for defrauding
psychiatrists to have the the government of
worst track record of all $924,000 (763,573) in
medical disciplines.58 insurance billings for
Here are some of non-existent psy-
their convictions for chotherapy sessions
fraud and murder in he had billed for
the U.S. and beyond: therapy sessions while
In 1998, South Bjarne Skovsager John Orpin he was vacationing
African psychiatrist, in Europe, New Zea-
Omar Sabadia, was sen- land, Las Vegas and
tenced to a 65-year jail New York.62
sentence for murdering In June 2002,
his wife to collect her psychiatrist Colin Bou-
$600,000 (495,827) life wer, the former head
insurance policy, after of psychological medi-
squandering his sav- cine at the University
ings in gambling. He of Otago, New Zea-
arranged the killing Kolathur Unni Christopher Allison land, lost a court
through one of his appeal and was sen-
patients.59 tenced to life imprison-
Virginia psy- You have had ment for murdering
chiatrist, Robert C. his wife.63
Showalter was an
a relationship of trust In November
expert defense witness with the family which you 2003, Ivan Zagainov,
in criminal cases until a psychiatrist in the
he lost his license to systematically and severely Czech Republic, was
practice for forcing male sentenced to 13 years in
patients to masturbate
exploited. jail for the strangulation
in front of him, which Judge sentencing Danish psychologist murder of a 15-year-old
he called masturbation Bjarne Skovsager, 2002 female patient.64
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IMPORTANT FACTS
1 Psychiatrys involvement
in the justice system is
a colossal failure that has
come at great cost to
society.
2 Psychiatric influence
must be removed from
our courts in order to
restore effective justice.
3 The rehabilitation of
criminals into useful
members of society cannot
occur if psychiatrists and
psychologists continue to
undermine the concept
of personal responsibility.
CHAPTER
The Return
FIVE
of Justice
W
hen psychiatry entered the confused by psychiatry, by the idea that some-
justice and penal systems, it thing happened to you when you were a child and
did so under the subterfuge therefore you are not responsible 30 years later.
that it understood man, that it Contrary to psychiatric ideology, man is not
knew not only what made just another helpless creature, without will or
man act as he did, but that it knew how to conscience, to be manipulated according to
improve his lot. This was a lie. someone elses design. Underneath whatever
Psychiatry has had the opportunity to prove confusions he may have, he knows he has the
itself but has instead proven to be a colossal courage to confront and solve his problems, and
failure. The cost to society has been catastrophic, he knows he has the ability to discern between
not only in terms of what is right and what
money. is wrong. And under-
Psychiatry was We have to restore the idea neath it all, he knows it
posed as a solution is the ultimate betrayal
and became a problem. of responsibility, which is corrupted to try and persuade
The first step is and confused by psychiatry, by the him otherwise.
to remove psychiatric idea that something happened to Dr. Margaret Ha-
influence from the gen, Ph.D., a Boston
courts, police depart- you when you were a child University lecturer in
ments, prisons and and therefore you are not psychology and law
schools. responsible 30 years later. says: Judges and
Compassion decrees juries, the people
that the criminal must Professor Thomas Szasz alone, must decide
be given the opportu- questions of insanity,
nity to face up to what competence, rehabilita-
he has done and reform himself to become a pro- tion, custody, injury and disability without the
ductive member of the group. In this way justice fraudulent interference of so-called psychological
benefits the individual and society. and psychiatric experts.
Psychiatrys attempt to eradicate the A democratic society imposes exactly these
concept of right and wrong and thereby destroy burdens on the average man and woman and on
personal responsibility by inventing excuses for our judges and legislators. It is time that we give
the most flagrant misconduct, undermines the up our attempts to hand off the weight onto the
justice system. shoulders of professional decision makers. It is
Thomas Szasz warned: We have to restore past time that we throw out the whores and take
the idea of responsibility, which is corrupted and back the courts and the justice system.65
CHAPTER FIVE
The Return of Justice
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendations
2 State and federal legislators should repeal any laws permitting the insanity
defense and diminished capacity pleas.
5 Prosecute as a criminal offense any and all cases of physical damage caused
through psychiatrys use of electroshock, brain surgery or abusive drug
treatment.
6
Individuals who have been abused by a psychiatrist, psychologist
or psychotherapist should file a police report about every incident of
psychiatric assault, fraud or other crime they become aware of and send
CCHR a copy of the complaint.
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MISSION STATEMENT
THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works
shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share a
common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue to
do so until psychiatrys abusive and coercive practices cease
and human rights and dignity are returned to all.
Citizens Commission
on Human Rights International
T
he Citizens Commission on Human CCHRs work aligns with the UN Universal
Rights (CCHR) was established in Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the
1969 by the Church of Scientology to following precepts, which psychiatrists violate on
investigate and expose psychiatric a daily basis:
violations of human rights, and to Article 3: Everyone has the right to life,
clean up the field of mental healing. liberty and security of person.
Today, it has more than 130 chapters in over
31 countries. Its board of advisors, called Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture
Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers, educa- or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
tors, artists, business professionals, and civil and punishment.
human rights representatives. Article 7: All are equal before the law and
While it doesnt provide medical or legal are entitled without any discrimination to equal
advice, it works closely with and supports medical protection of the law.
doctors and medical practice. A key CCHR focus is Through psychiatrists false diagnoses, stigma-
psychiatrys fraudulent use of subjective diag- tizing labels, easy-seizure commitment laws, brutal,
noses that lack any scientific or medical merit, but depersonalizing treatments, thousands of indi-
which are used to reap financial benefits in the bil- viduals are harmed and denied their inherent
lions, mostly from the taxpayers or insurance carri- human rights.
ers. Based on these false diagnoses, psychiatrists CCHR has inspired and caused many hun-
justify and prescribe life-damaging treatments, dreds of reforms by testifying before legislative
including mind-altering drugs, which mask a hearings and conducting public hearings into psy-
persons underlying difficulties and prevent his or chiatric abuse, as well as working with media, law
her recovery. enforcement and public officials the world over.
CITIZENS COMMISSION
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T
he psychiatric profession purports to be know the causes or cures for any mental disorder
the sole arbiter on the subject of mental or what their treatments specifically do to the THE REAL CRISISIn Mental Health Today CHILD DRUGGINGPsychiatry Destroying Lives
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facts, however, demonstrate otherwise: opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and results within the mental health industry diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth
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DISEASES. In medicine, strict criteria exist for stated, The time when psychiatrists considered health monopoly assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools
calling a condition a disease: a predictable group that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In
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Report and recommendations on psychiatrys destructive Report and recommendations on the failure of community
an understanding of their physiology (function) with their illness. impact on health care mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs
must be proven and established. Chills and fever
are symptoms. Malaria and typhoid are diseases. 4. THE THEORY THAT MENTAL DISORDERS PSEUDOSCIENCEPsychiatrys False Diagnoses HARMING ARTISTSPsychiatry Ruins Creativity
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psychotropic drug sales) is that mental disorders Report and recommendations on psychiatric lies and religious belief and practice
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MENTAL DISORDERS, NOT PROVEN DISEASES. As with its other theories, there is no biological THE BRUTAL REALITYHarmful Psychiatric Treatments Report and recommendations on psychiatry subverting the
While mainstream physical medicine treats or other evidence to prove this. Representative Report and recommendations on the destructive practices of courts and corrective services
diseases, psychiatry can only deal with of a large group of medical and biochemistry electroshock and psychosurgery
disorders. In the absence of a known cause or experts, Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of ELDERLY ABUSECruel Mental Health Programs
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3. PSYCHIATRY HAS NEVER ESTABLISHED THE often more potent than a narcotic and capable
CAUSE OF ANY MENTAL DISORDERS. Leading of driving one to violence or suicide. They mask WARNING: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the
psychiatric agencies such as the World Psychiatric the real cause of problems in life and debilitate
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