Sex Attack Doctor Jailed
Despite a previous indecent assault conviction, resulting in a six-year licence suspension, London psychiatrist Kolathur Unni was judged "fit to practice." And what did Unni do once he was declared "fit"? He sexually abused another patient.
This month, Unni was sentenced to 18 months in jail
for that "sex attack," and the judge told Unni that he "should
never be allowed to practice as a doctor in this country [England] or
anywhere again." However, once the verdict was in, more of Unni's
past was revealed, as jurors exchanged looks of horror… Full story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2093000/2093610.stm
news.bbc.co.uk - BBC News online 4th July 2002
PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Unni's case is the tip of the iceberg for human rights violations within psychiatry. Often, people have asked me why psychiatry's hierarchy doesn't do more to keep its house in order. Well, in certain cases, even the hierarchy within the 'mental health' industry has been found guilty of gross abuses of their patients' human rights. Today's psychiatrists, according to studies, have the shortest marriages of seven branches of medicine studied and are most likely to have extra-marital affairs, as are their spouses. But extra-marital affairs with whom… and where…?
"Barbara Noel felt herself floating towards consciousness. It was Friday, 21st September 1984, and she was in her psychiatrist's office in Chicago, waking from a dose of sodium amytal, a barbiturate he had been giving her in order to help her explore her subconscious. This morning though, instead of awakening dreamily by herself, she says she felt a weight on top of her. A man was breathing heavily onto her shoulder. Still sedated, Noel moaned and stirred. The breathing stopped, and the body on top of her carefully lifted away. Pretending to sleep, Noel opened her eyes a crack. She could make out a person standing at a sink with his back to her. He was bald, with a tanned back and stark white buttocks. Noel's heart stopped. The man, she says, was Dr Jules Masserman, her psychiatrist of 18 years."
Subsequent action against Dr Jules Masserman solicited a fervent denial by the latter of the charges. Psychiatrists all over the world winced as they followed the descending fortunes of Masserman, the 1979 president of the American Psychiatric Association. The case was finally settled when Masserman agreed to pay malpractice settlements to Noel and three other women. He also signed an agreement never to practise psychiatric therapy again in the United States.
This is one of a host of cases highlighted in my book The Mind Game, illustrating the politics of the madhouse existing within psychiatry, which has such a dismal and pathetic record of policing its own. Remember, this is the only 'social service', outside of the police, which can have you off the streets and sectioned into a mental institution, with precious little you can do about it. Remember also that if you are arrested for a crime, you can make that telephone call to your lawyer in the hope that justice will prevail (if you have been wrongly accused). But who's going to listen to you under a section order? What rights do you have if you have already been labelled with any one of an increasing and bewilderingly arbitrary number of bizarre 'mental illnesses'?
There are many mental health professionals who are working with all good intention within psychology and psychiatry, to be sure, and some of them do great work. Our goal at CTM is not to be obstructive or needlessly critical, but to assist in bringing psychiatry back within the law and moral code. We also wish to encourage the citizenry to research and implement the host of natural and sensitive measures that have a proven track record against mental disorders. And this is the best news of all. Find out today what you can do to get involved.
The Mind Game by Phillip Day
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