Posted on 01/12/2018 7:19:57 PM PST by Kaslin
Every psychology and psychiatry student/resident should be required to learn how nations like the USSR used the mental health system to lock up political dissidents.
Either drum them out of the profession or share their lack of credibility!
This statement is nothing but gas.
Hahaha. These unethical, unprofessional , integrity-free losers need to stick their worthless opinions where the sun doesn’t shine. Fools.
The APA was more than a day late and more than a dollar short with their rebuke; allowing “Dr.” Bandy and her “diagnosis” to circulate in the media for the better part of a week.
These guys didn’t care about Obama floating around like he was maxed out on Xanax?
You are quite wrong.
The APA can't drum anybody out of anything.
The statement is highly significant, because it provides a basis (which has been lacking) for formal complaints to, and action by, three entities with the power to do exactly what you wish.
1) State of New York Office of Professional Medical Conduct.
2) American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
3) Office of the Dean, Yale University School of Medicine
All of these organizations can and do sanction unethical conduct, which is exactly what the APA accuses Dr. Lee of in their statement. Up until now, a complaint from a member of the public to these three organizations would probably be turned away because the complainant could not produce expert testimony from within the field of psychiatry that, according to their internal standards, a breach had occurred.
Now, they no longer have that out.
Big deal. Next piece of spaghetti will be thrown at the wall.
Apology? Only racists and homophobes apologize? If we were to apologize it would only prove DJT is a skunk. Are we sorry we broke the rules of our profession? The ends justify the means and the moves.
The dirty little secret that they are jealously guarding, is that psychiatry isn’t much more than a pseudo-science. The hard sciences and medical world know that to be true.
Schools aren’t even teaching about the gulags and Communist purges, much less the weaponization of psychiatry.
What makes you think they don’t know?
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She looks like a KOOK,
Aren't most anti-Trumpers?
The enforcement is not in the APA, it is in the court system as Goldwater sued for Libel and won.
Goldwater v. Ginzburg
Court rulings
The court found that the evidence introduced at trial proved the defendants knew they were publishing defamatory statements and were motivated by actual malice when they published the statements.
The court found the defendants guilty of libel action based on the article Fact published. The plaintiff demanded $1,000,000 in compensatory and punitive damages but Senator Goldwater was awarded $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages.
The compensatory damages were against all defendants but the punitive damages were split between the defendants. Ginzburg and Boroson were liable for $25,000 of the $75,000 and Fact Magazine, Inc. was liable for $50,000. The United States Court of Appeals affirmed the award and the Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (review).
“The APA can’t drum anybody out of anything.”
Except out of the APA... They are a voluntary membership professional organization.
However, their ethics guidelines are promulgated as “Standards of Practice” which are then used in the court system when the person is sued.
That’s why the standards were developed. To protect psychiatrists from getting sued for making statements as they did against Goldwater.
More Important...
The Connecticut Board of Medical Licensing where she also had her license to prescribe medications.
It appears as though she was practicing medicine without a license in CT.
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